Cobra wrote:
I have two use cases:
1) Preflight. On a couch somewhere, prepping for a flight.
2) In flight. In the cockpit, ready to fly or already flying.
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When I'm sitting in the cockpit, I want iFly to get to the moving map as quickly as possible and with as little user input as possible. If I don't have the latest charts loaded by then, there's nothing I can do about it at that point anyway. It's no different than if I didn't put the right charts in my bag before I left the house.
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If I goofed and found in the cockpit that my electronic chart wasn't current, and if I were going to fly IFR, I would stop the flight until I updated the chart. (I should do that even for VFR - especially in light of the regs.) Or I would switch to my backup tablet, which hopefully has a current chart. That is, I submit there is value in being told ahead of time that a chart isn't current,