dje67
Member
On Saturday, I took the boat up the Clyde and anchored in Holy Lock for the night. I use Navionics on my iPad, with SH CP180 fixed plotter as my backup. All fine on that journey. However, on Sunday when I left the anchorage, I opened Navionics and it was demanding that I signed-in before it would let me do or see anything. Ipad hadn’t been shutdown overnight and had been on charge all night.
On the Clyde, with full mobile coverage that was not a problem (just a bit of a pain to connect to my hotspot on the phone, login, then restore the ipad wifi connection to my onboard GPS).
It got me thinking a bit about what might have happened if I’d been in an area with no 4G coverage, as I was for much of the summer. If I couldn’t get 4G connection I wouldn’t have been able to login to Navionics and would have ended up with no primary chart plotter. I don’t think this is safe as this issue could have occurred in a remote place where it would be rather useful to have a plotter!
So, anyone else found themselves ‘locked out’ of Navionics since they changed their policy of requiring you to have a login.
On the Clyde, with full mobile coverage that was not a problem (just a bit of a pain to connect to my hotspot on the phone, login, then restore the ipad wifi connection to my onboard GPS).
It got me thinking a bit about what might have happened if I’d been in an area with no 4G coverage, as I was for much of the summer. If I couldn’t get 4G connection I wouldn’t have been able to login to Navionics and would have ended up with no primary chart plotter. I don’t think this is safe as this issue could have occurred in a remote place where it would be rather useful to have a plotter!
So, anyone else found themselves ‘locked out’ of Navionics since they changed their policy of requiring you to have a login.