charge
Empty Cruise said-
We fly with 2 units, each of which must be charged to, e.g. 50% for a 5hr leg. Minimum is 30% for dispatch, no matter how short the leg. This approved by a W European CAA, your experience may vary.
We have a 80% minimum charge at start of duty day regardless of leg length. I have never come close to running out of battery. Before we used these "officially," we had the iPads and made tests of battery % at start, % at landing etc...in order to have something to show CAA that we had been testing while on paper and had real-world results.
On one aircraft, we have outlets in the cockpit and have never experienced a "heat" problem. In fact, we have never had any problems at all... Jepp and ARINC apps work great. Would hate to have to go back to paper!
I have a friend that swears by iPad mini in Twin Otter ops.