CoPilot RV GPS Navigation App

been using it for a year. Before that I used the CoPilot app that had Auto and RV settings. I love it. Uses your phone's GPS so works even if you don't have cell service. Has most campgrounds, fuel stations, points of interest. A bit of a learning curve about 2 weeks before I really "got it". If my mind got "stuck" I would just refer to the documentation. I bought it and got the free year traffic. Not sure if I would pay the subscription for the live traffic but still evaluating.

sdianel wrote:
been using it for a year. Before that I used the CoPilot app that had Auto and RV settings. I love it. Uses your phone's GPS so works even if you don't have cell service. Has most campgrounds, fuel stations, points of interest. A bit of a learning curve about 2 weeks before I really "got it". If my mind got "stuck" I would just refer to the documentation. I bought it and got the free year traffic. Not sure if I would pay the subscription for the live traffic but still evaluating.

Same here, but use it on a Verizon 10" tablet for a better view.

I still rely on my Garmin but I have used Copilot on my IPad with no complaint.

Have used time and again as there a number of areas in the four corner states where cell phone service is non-existent rendering most GPS programs useless. Have CoPilot on our smart phones and tablets and we use it along with other mapping methods to get to never traveled destinations.

Sandia Man has it down, on my phone and my tablet. No phone signal no problem.

I have it on my Iphone and my Ipad and have been using it for about 3 years. After spending a small fortune on previous Garmin Gps's and faced with spending another $400 for another RV specific one I figured I would try the Copilot app, for $6.99 you can't go wrong. I would not go back to another Garmin. It avoids low bridges and propane restricted tunnels.

Howdy!

As a fulltimers Co-pilot is our go to app. I gave up on Garman years ago and started with Co-pilot basic app, then the trucker app and now using the RV app.

"Happy Trails"
Chiefneon

We also have been using CoPilot for RV for a few years now on both phone and tablet. We have it tweaked just the way we want it and it has kept us off of some dirt roads and other places we definitely would have been in trouble on as well as avoided low clearances, etc. We tried several other GPS solution before CoPilot and settled on it as the best available.

Got that email yesterday also and looked at the info.

Nothing works as well as old Streets and Trips (IMHO) because all of the other systems I have tried are binary when it comes to routing: avoid major highways (Interstates) on/off. If you click ON, it will route you all over the place to avoid even a small stretch of Interstate. It will send you through a major city to avoid the beltway around that city.

S&T had a slider that you could adjust to how much you liked/disliked a type of road and this eliminated a lot of the ridiculous routing. It is no issue if you stay on Interstates. We like old back roads like US 17/301/1.

My question: does this system force you to chose one or the other?

Used the Co=Pilot app on my Samsung tablet last year for the first time on a 3500 mile trip and it was great. Bought a mount for the tablet at 5-Below and mounted it on the wall beside the drivers seat. Perfect!

Nice thing about it is you can preplan trips and load them up as needed.