The Cessna 120-140 Association Forum

I'm sure it has been discussed before, but for the sake of the new forum and my renewed interest, lets do it again.

What is everyone using to mount their iPad? I have previously used a full size iPad with a Pivot suction cup mount on the right side of the windshield, putting the iPad half below/half above the panel in a landscape position. I don't have any pictures of that, but it worked out ok. Just a lot of glare and I don't currently have an anti-glare screen cover (its a work iPad).

I'd like to move to a mini. I'm not usually a fan of yoke mounts, but I'm open to try anything. Bring on the suggestions, with pictures please. I'll try to get a picture of my current mounting solution and panel when I go out to the airport tomorrow.

Thanks!

Personally, I don't mount the unit on the control wheel, on the glare shield or via one of those suction cup mounts utilizing the door post. I like an unobstructed view of the panel as well as through the windshield. With that said I put in my lap to refer to it rather than follow it. Just my personal opinion, but having an electronic device in front of you gives one a chance to start fiddling with the buttons therefore taking attention away from looking outside and where you're going. I've seen this with pilots and students using the Garmin G-1000. Like I mentioned, just my opinion and 2 cents worth.

I like my mini Ipad on the yoke.

I like the way you have that mounted. Unfortunately I have the pretzel yokes, so thats out. I have tried a yoke mount that goes over the yoke, but thats just too much in the way.

6183 wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 1:26 pm I like an unobstructed view of the panel as well as through the windshield. With that said I put in my lap to refer to it rather than follow it. Just my personal opinion, but having an electronic device in front of you gives one a chance to start fiddling with the buttons therefore taking attention away from looking outside and where you're going.

I agree, and I think this is why I've been so unhappy so far mounting in the 140. However, I'm based at a fairly high traffic airport (large University flight school) with many airplanes in the local "practice areas" at times. Its nice to be able to glance at the ads-b traffic without going heads down. For work, I have the room to mount the iPad on the side window, where it's usually off until I need to reference something. When needed it's at my fingertips. When I'm alone in the 140 I have mounted on the passenger side window which I like and is very similar to the placement at work, but that doesn't work with a passenger.

In my ‘46 I had an old CDI that was removed years ago for a digital VOR, so I simply took the blank off out and bent a single piece of aluminum over itself 3X to make it stand out of the panel by an inch. I then put industrial Velcro on the flat spot and on the back of the IPad. It doesn’t cover any instruments, or weigh down the yoke, or impede my outside vision. I can flip it horizontally or vertically, and my iPad is in a life proof case, so no awkward back and fourth from plane to case. Total cost was 10 dollars and about 30 min of labor.

I have a mini-iPad mount that I made from aluminum flashing. The bends I used sound like those of member 8147. While flying locally with a totally unobstructed view is great, my goal was to get the iPad up where I can keep "eyes out" and see Foreflight info at a glance without going "head down". I see a lot of traffic a lot sooner with my ADS-B available in front of me. My other goal was to have Synthetic Vision directly in front of me, in the event I ended up in IMC. Since I have no artificial horizon, I was glad to have it on one occasion. The "best mount" is going to be a personal decision, so I am sharing what I ended with.

I am including a link below.

I like what I ended with after many tries because.
1) It does not cover any instruments (turn and bank, a little bit though).
2) It can be moved easily left of right just a bit.
3) In less than one second it can be lifted off the hand-grip where it hangs and removed totally.

The concerns of member #8146 are real, but I think personal discipline can keep one from getting transfixed on an iPad screen, while having very good data available with "heads-up".

Hope this link works if you click on it: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AlP602V6cjLenUgH3RqIwl6LgHtp

[Ed] fixed the link.

I put the mini iPad on the pilot side and am quite happy with it there. I like that when the sun puts a glare on the screen I can easily adjust it up or down a tad. The only thing it partially blocks for me is the electric bank indicator which I don't use anyway.