Hi there,
If I can pick your brains, what do those of you who fly internationally (pan-European) use for connectivity? Both broad and narrow band?
There are only two things I can think of in terms of a private pilot, one being GPRS, the other Wifi. I've never tried GPRS, other than using the telephone's inbuilt browser, which works fine for me route planning and METAR purposes, and those Wifi connections are a bit hit and miss (more of the latter unless in a big place), and expensive unless you happen to be somewhere where free municipal connectivity is provided.
My primary use case involves, as mentioned, route planning and weather briefing, which can be done over low bandwidth, but I also like having a bit more speed to be able to download the odd aerodrome chart, and also firing up Google Earth, zoom into a place and look at the pics, see if I like it before I go there
As I said, private flying, so things like BGAN are out of the question (and BGAN is crap anyway).
Suggestions, comments, and anecdotes all welcome.