Mobile Device Home Sim Setup Tips

Looking for a simple home flight sim setup for practicing things like instrument approaches?

I’m testing something out at the moment by using an iPhone running Infinite Flight, which sends data to two iPads running G1000 PFD and MFD simulators and my LIFT iPad running Garmin Pilot (or ForeFlight) for geo-referenced data.

Obviously you’ll need a couple of extra iPads to do all that but the simplest option would be to use just the G1000 PFD app on your LIFT iPad and Garmin Pilot (or ForeFlight) on your iPhone for charts. You just won’t get geo-referencing. Note: You won’t get Jepp charts on your iPhone but you can airdrop them to yourself from your LIFT iPad.

While I haven’t fully tested everything, it’s certainly an interesting setup. Currently I’m just using the PFD and MFD as reference displays but still set bugs and flight plans etc.

One thing that’s cool with Infinite Flight is that they have all the fixes you’ll need to load arrivals and approaches. And if you have the full setup, you can load the true JAKKS2 arrival (and others) in the G1000 PFD simulator to mirror alongside with Infinite Flight.

Anyway, just thought I’d mention the setup in case anyone wanted to check it out too. And if you try it out, let me know how it works and if there are any neat things you can do with it.

Infinite Flight: Free* - https://infiniteflight.com/
SIMiONIC G1000 Apps⌀: $10 each and $6 extra for synthetic vision:  http://www.simionic.net/WordPress/downloads/

*Infinite Flight is free but if you want the Indy area (global actually) and all aircraft, ATC, online play, etc., they have monthly and annual subscriptions available.

⌀The Simionic G1000 apps aren’t the NXi version and the MFD doesn’t have an EIS page but overall I’ve found the base functionality to be great.