ForeFlight recently sent out a notice warning customers that after January 3 next year its popular aviation app will no longer be supported on the original Apple iPad 1 and iPhones through model 4. "We strongly encourage you to make sure your primary device is at least an iPad Air, iPad mini 2 or iPhone 5,” the company wrote.
Coincidentally, John Zimmerman, editor-in-chief of the Air Facts blog and v-p of Sporty's Pilot Shop's catalog division, recently wrote about how new pilots are immune to the debate about whether pilots should use mobile devices in the cockpit because they began their aviation endeavors wedded to mobile devices and can’t conceive not using them while flying.
Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.
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