For over a year now I have been running SD on an original iPad and enjoying the benefits of such a good piece of software.

However, I'm now using the latest version of the iPad SD (late Dec release) on the same iPad with iOS 5.1.1 and have found that the SD software constantly crashes out on me. I've tried this on the ground and in air, only to find the same results. Whether I'm in plan mode or GPS navigation mode, it just keeps on happening!

I've restarted the iPad, shutdown all other apps -- all to no avail. On today's flight in MVFR the longest that I managed to keep SD running in Navigation Mode was about 5 minutes and the shortest time was 15 seconds. According to the logs I have about 20 flights logged in the space of 90 minutes, mainly from "unknown to "unknown" , as I tried to restart SD in mid flight.

SD is a fantastic piece of software but I'm not able to rely on this latest iPad release whereas in the previous version I may have experienced a crash on the odd occasion and was happy to live with that.

I've be thinking about purchasing the iPad mini but will be putting that on hold and returning to the Navsgo as my main SD device. What a shame as SD and iPad ae made for each other.

Is anybody else experiencing the same problems?





Biggles -- EGKB

So here is what I've found out so far. I'm running SD on 4 systems at the moment:-

iPad 1 with iOS 5.1.1 still crashes but problem can be managed by RESET as discussed in earlier posting. Have not yet worked out what sequence of events forces the error to re-appear. However, I think that the problem is associated with screen updating routines not completing when the focus interrupts current event.

iPad 2 with iOS 5.1.1 still crashes and same as above.

iPad 2 with iOS 6.0.1 with clean install doesn't seem to exhibit the crashes.

iPad MINI with iOS 6.0.1 with clean install doesn't seem to exhibit the crashes.

This may be an SD compilation issue (21 Dec 2012 release)with iOS 5.1.1 running on your iPad. If so, this could be bad news as Apple have indicated that they're not supporting any future OS upgrade to the iPad 1!!!


If you add to this knowledge pool perhaps you could, as a precursor, state what iOS and iPad version you're using.




Biggles -- EGKB