What do people think about using a mobile device as a chart plotter/multi function display?
My experience has taken me from celestial and dead reckoning, through to rdf, and gps with paper chart, up to chart plotters both multi function display and computer based.
More recently I have been using mobile devices with inavx and navionics. This I first used as what I though would be backup but has quickly become primary for pure convenience (all be it with the salt water environment in mind).
My very recent research into upgrading our electronics has left me disappointed by the marine electronic companies continued insistence on forcing one to purchase their mfd's which are dinosaurs compared to current tablets and 10 times the price.
Have we reached the age where the big companies should provide the network solution to our mobile device independent of an overpriced mfd?
Or does it exist and I can't find it?
Cheers
Tony