Airplane pilots (like Heath? I can't remember - is Heath a pilot??) anyways, airplane pilots are all using tablets now. I assume it's because they mostly fly over land so really they never loose connection up there. Even the Airline guys have ditched their Jeppson Manuals and kneeboards - all I see are pilots with tablets now and some fit them into the dash of the plane like this:
That was why I did this to boat - all the pilots were doing it so I decided to do it too:
Like Sumner said - they only work well inside - but you can use them outside too - if things keep going the way they are going I am pretty sure the next charplotter you buy will just be a little "box" that sits on the backbone inside the boat and all the info will be sent by WIFI over the entire boat for the operation of the pilot, the motor gauges, the plotter - and add a radar and that can be on the tablet too. That seems to be the direction things are going.
