Stand-alone GPS or smartphone?
My wife and I just purchased our first Class A motorhome (2015 Holiday Rambler Vacationer) and we’re eager to hit the road. I’m wondering what opinions you more experienced drivers might have about GP...
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Wife loves her phone and I hate it. Too small for me to see well so am now using an older I-pad with C0-Pilot and am very happy with it. I do have a couple things I don't like that much with this set up. Sometimes if I decide to take a road I am familiar with to miss traffic or a detour it doesn't like to reroute, keeps wanting you to go back to the original route. Sometimes when I am familiar with parts of the route it is hard to get it to take the routes I want. Get around this by splitting the trip into sections and that works fine.
Something that is related to the I-pad it's self is even though I keep it plugged into a charging port if driving all day it uses more charge than it is getting. So by the end of the day it will be dead and needs to be shut off and recharged. I know I could shut it down while on long stretches of open interstate but really prefer it left on. Having a MH once we decided to make a quick stop for the driver which happened to be me for a bathroom break. No problem, pull off on an exit ramp, stop on shoulder and then get right back on. This was one of those places there was no entrance back to the interstate and had to drive a ways to get back on. With the I-pad it will show what the exit and entrance ramps look like. Jim.
Something that is related to the I-pad it's self is even though I keep it plugged into a charging port if driving all day it uses more charge than it is getting. So by the end of the day it will be dead and needs to be shut off and recharged. I know I could shut it down while on long stretches of open interstate but really prefer it left on. Having a MH once we decided to make a quick stop for the driver which happened to be me for a bathroom break. No problem, pull off on an exit ramp, stop on shoulder and then get right back on. This was one of those places there was no entrance back to the interstate and had to drive a ways to get back on. With the I-pad it will show what the exit and entrance ramps look like. Jim.
