Shocked that some of the oldies feel the need to jibe you. I have flown with some shockingly out of touch captains. Anyone that feels the need to react like that is often in my experience, not as ace as they think they are.
Skydemon is a must purchase. Trust me, look it up and never look back! You can print off all the enroute stuff for your plan as back up for the iPad. I have Jepperson Vfr charts too to go with it. You need nothing else.
Uberwang
Seconded.
Bearcat - Im in the same situation as you, thinking of buying an iPad or iPhone. For me the only real advantage of the iPad is SkyDemon, which is amazing for flight planning / weather / notams. I'll still use a Garmin for main GPS however.
For flight plan filiing tools, RocketRoute is good which can run on iPad or iPhone.
BTW - you probably should have posted this on the Private Flying forums. You might have avoided some of the Luddites.