ICub: An Airplane Wrapped Around an iPad (Plus an iPhone)

If there aren't enough iWidgets in your life, here's one more: the iCub. It's basically a Cub clone LSA built around the network and display capabilities of an iPad and an iPhone. The iPad serves as the airplane's main navigation device, plus it also receives and tracks data from the Rotax 912 engine. At the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, AVweb talked with the company's Bill Canino, and this brief video offers a tour of the airplane.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• AVweb
• iCub
• Sebring
• U.S. Sport Aviation Expo
• iPad
• iPhone
• Apple
• Piper Cub

[pedroca2424]

Oh awesome!!! Now I can finally play Angry Birds while flying

[anonymoususerindenve]

This is neat and all, but the video tells me nothing about why having an Ipad in it is good, nor why I should care. I felt frustrated at the end of this. It's too bad they didn't think before making this.

[njshrivnauth]

@pedroca2424

And what happens when you play tilt sensitive games? That should be real fun!

[BeechSundowner]

@MrThecorrector1

WRONG.

GPS chip is in the iPad with 3G model. As I told you before under the VFRPAD user name, turn off 3G and Wireless and the iPad will work in the cockpit.

[kurtsnyder]

@vfrpad You look like a real ass posting your same false information over and over on various videos, not only from your primary account, but also from the @MrThecorrector1 account. We all know that you are trying your best to bash the iPad just to help your own business. 

[BeechSundowner]

@vfrpad

This vfrpad has spammed my videos with the very same incorrect information

Please do not support spammers.

[vfrpad]

91.21 prohibits wireless devices in aircraft! No pilots, 91.21 (b) does not give you the right to choose to use wireless devices in aircraft, it lets you choose and test non-wireless devices. So this is a dumb and and dangerous aircraft idea!!!!!!!!

[MrThecorrector1]

Ipad can't be used as an aviation tool. Two reasons out of many, it doesn't have real GPS, you have to use an external bluetooth GPS, and that is prohibited in aircraft by the FAA. Second reason is, all the apps for it are internet dependent, you also can't us Wifi or 3-4G in an aircraft, it is also prohibited. No transmitting devices are allowed in aircraft, only a real GPS is, because it is a receiving device.

[AmericanAviator]

@anonymoususerindenve I'd have to agree, all the video really did was reiterate what the Cub's strengths are. At least in my opinion.

[AmericanAviator]

Oh, so their airplane is rugged and meant for soft field operations! It's great to see a Cub that can finally fly out of a grass strip! What a stroke of briliance! I never would have thought about a Cub clone operating out of a soft field.

Am I laying on the Sarcasm too think?

[gelorza]

What about that ipad and Iphone? Why don´t you wrap a microwave....