You could argue this is exactly whats going on with ForeFlight 8 and its new maps system. Wasnt this what AnywhereMap and the Garmin 396 did? Isnt this what WingX originally did and still offers? In fact, didnt sectional and en route charts appear in our tablet apps because users demanded facsimiles of the paper charts?
Hang around any industry long enough and you’ll enjoy the deja vu of yesterday’s news repackaged as today’s cutting edge. Sometimes that’s avocado green as a stylish color, but other times it marks technology enabling something that was only half successful before.
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