Jeppesen JDM Mobile

It should be so easy to add support to II load the downloads to a USB drive. Please add support, no need Bad Elf anymore. Just like a computer does that, a mobile device should be able to do so.

At one time the Bad Elf was necessary because iOS devices did not support external drives. However, iOS drives have now been supported for many years, you can buy a USB to SD dongle. It’s beyond me why after all of these years Jeppesen has not enabled write direct to SD card capability.

Without the ability to download and transfer to an SD card via iPhone or iPad, this app is completely worthless.

It really does not work. Shocking Jeppesen would even release this. What is “Bad elf Wombat?” No one knows. Zero support. Given the thousands of dollars for the charts, really shockingly bad.

If the APP would allow users to just simply use the Jeppesen adapter plugged into an Apple USB-C dongle this app would be useful.

As others have said his app can’t write directly to an sd card attached to an iPad. Seems like it should be an easy feature to add. The only thing this app supports is the Bad Elf Wombat. I reached out to them and they don’t have a manufacturer.

Bad-Elf Wombat has been sold out for a while and there’s no indication of if or when it will ever be sold again. Why can’t Jeppesen update the app to support direct connection through USB instead of requiring an unavailable third party product? All new iPad Air, Pro, Mini models come with USB C ports which would only need a simple adapter.

The JDM Mobile app mimics the excellent desktop (Windows) version of JDM very well, and is intuitive and straightforward to use. Downloading database updates to my iPad Pro is fast and easy. I don’t have a Bad Elf Wombat (in fact they are unavailable to buy right now), so I can’t do the transfer to a memory card for updating my Cirrus SR22 avionics. I currently use the JDM Windows version to keep my avionics updated. I tried this Mobile version to see what might be possible when I travel without my laptop (which I use to run the JDM Windows version and transfer update files to an SD card). This brings me to the One Improvement Opportunity: if the JDM Mobile version could directly write the database update files to an SD card that is attached to an iPad, then the update process would be quick, easy and not require another device (i.e Wombat). Attaching an SD card to an iPad is very easy, requiring only a simple plug-in adapter. This would be an elegant solution, and seems “doable” given that the JDM Mobile app is already “sending” the update files via Wi-Fi to a memory card inserted into the Wombat as part of the current process. I know direct Wi-Fi updating of avionics is available in some cases (e.g. using Garmin Pilot Concierge), but it is not robust enough and fast enough, particularly for large update files. As a result, the use of memory cards will be with us for some time. Making it possible to use memory cards directly with JDM Mobile would be a great improvement!

I have been using the JDM-Wombat configuration since release. Partial updates of the supplemental databases are still spotty. Need to delete the database history and do fresh downloads. This bug has persisted and is a total deal killer when WiFi is not available. I have talked to support but the software is not fixed. In this day and age. One-star.