Hot Spot - Teathering, in flight

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While in flight, if I turn on the "tethering/hot spot feature" on my phone, then connect my iPad via WIFI to the phone, can I then down load weather in the IFLY app . If so, approximately how much weather data (in GB) will be retrieved?

Love the app. I have the cross platform license and run the app on Windows as well as two iPads.
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Steve
 
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Steve said:
While in flight, if I turn on the "tethering/hot spot feature" on my phone, then connect my iPad via WIFI to the phone, can I then down load weather in the IFLY app . If so, approximately how much weather data (in GB) will be retrieved?
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Sure. If you can maintain a data connection to your cell network on your phone in flight, iFly doesn't know or care where the Internet is coming from. It'll work the same as if it's in your living room.

The trick is maintaining Internet access while in flight, though. I don't know if you've tried enough to have an idea of how well (or poorly) it works where you typically fly, but my experience over a period of years with multiple phones and cell providers is that reception is very spotty and generally unreliable.

No idea how much data that consumes.
 
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Cobra,
Thanks for your response. My original thought was to try and get Internet weather (via my phone hotspot) when the ADSB weather update was not available.

Steve
 
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Steve said:
My original thought was to try and get Internet weather (via my phone hotspot) when the ADSB weather update was not available.
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That's kind of what that feature is intended for...but on the ground, where Internet is ubiquitous and ADSB is hard to come by.

In the air, it's not quite the reverse, but my experience has been that ADSB is nearly ubiquitous, whereas cellular data is not reliable at all. Honestly, I'm not sure I've ever noticed a time when I had cell data but not ADSB.

Could be different where you fly, though. 🤷‍♂️
 
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