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Originally Posted by Tytlfamily
All good stuff....Dave, our Hurricane is 12' 8" tall.....have you actually had problems with low crossings yet? Lots of flat land here in TX, so height has not been an issue yet.
I was going to look at that Rand McNally RV GPS app though....looks like good RV routing stuff on that. I just love the big screen of the Ipad, and thought more people would utilize it.
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Sorry up front for the long response and this may be more than you want to know.
I haven't had the Challenger out other than from the Dealer. I do know there is a road that I would normally take to my local Pilot station with my class C that I can no longer take with the class A due to a low (12 foot) one lane bridge. I have noticed when using RV Trip Wizard to plan some routes in my Class C that there were some roads that the C would clear but I would have issues with in the Challenger. Also, coming back from Florida in January I recall that due to some overpass construction on I95 in SC there were some temporary height restrictions of about 12 feet 3 inches. They did have height sensors out in enough time to give the truckers notice and the solution was an off and on approach at the respective exit to bypass the restricted area.
One thing I will say is that the combo NAV/audio/video system that came in my class C did not fit the bill. In that system I was either a car or a bus and there was no way to enter vehicle characteristics that could impact route planning (e.g. don't use dirt roads) and I had to remove the entire unit from the vehicle to perform a map update. That was a Magnadyne and it was a piece of .... as a navigation system.
Also, the co-pilot is a little perturbed right now because she was wanting to travel down the Natchez Trace this year but that is no longer possible due to both height and length restrictions.
Basically it boils down to route planning. I like the ability to plan the trip by start, POIs, waypoints and destination and then have the RV GPS plan the route based on restrictions. I even go so far as to use the Pilot app to identify locations with RV lanes and parking and plan the fuel stops into the trip.
Two things you may want to consider is the GPS is based off satellites and to use the iPad for navigation you are going to have to depend on a reliable WiFi signal. What happens if you get into an area where your service does not provide WiFi? Also, since the use of WiFi is considered cellular data, does your service allow unlimited data, will they throttle you back after reaching a certain level of data use and if you don't have unlimited what is the charge for going over the plan allowance.
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