Pilots love their gadgets—but all those gadgets require power, and they become expensive paperweights if the battery dies in flight.
The DualMicro Charger from MyGoFlight lets you charge two full-sized tablets, phones, or other devices simultaneously. It supports 12- and 24-volt systems. It can be tucked into a flight bag, ready to go when you are.
Price: $29.99
Sporty’s Checklist App
What’s better than having your old faithful checklist securely stored in an airplane? Nothing—until the day you can’t find it. That happened to me on a cross-country flight last year. The checklist eventually turned up, but it went missing long enough that I started to wonder how I would be able to do a thorough preflight without it. (Rely on memory, you say? No thanks.)
Sporty’s offers Qref aircraft checklists for the iPhone and iPad. The same content found in the Qref checklists are available in a customizable app. Checklists are available for more than 50 models of aircraft. A user can customize any item to an individual checklist, and checklists can be moved from one device to another.
Price: App is free; each model checklist is $9.95
