Most, if not all, mobile phones can use GPS in airplane mode. It's just a matter of order. Activate airplane mode and it all turns off (GPS, Bluetooth, cellular, data) but then you go to your settings (or easier still, have a widget with toggles for these connection types) and turn on your GPS only. You are still in airplane mode, saving your battery because your phone is not hunting for cell signal, but all of your GPS apps track great.
As noted by others, you won't have data connection so cache your riding area while you still have signal. I use the app "my tracks" and it is great. I export my tracks and email them to myself. They are as accurate as my garmin 60csx GPS. So much so that I rarely download my GPS tracks because it is just so easy to have the phone email its tracks.
By the way, yes keep your phone away from your Avy beacon. They can interfere with your transceiver just like other electronics even when those electronics are off. Most of the trainers point out tests that have shown where even a powered off digital camera will interfered. Usually a foot or more distance lessens this effect but close proximitity is bad. In other words, do not but electronics in a coat pocket directly over, or near, your transceiver.
As noted by others, you won't have data connection so cache your riding area while you still have signal. I use the app "my tracks" and it is great. I export my tracks and email them to myself. They are as accurate as my garmin 60csx GPS. So much so that I rarely download my GPS tracks because it is just so easy to have the phone email its tracks.
By the way, yes keep your phone away from your Avy beacon. They can interfere with your transceiver just like other electronics even when those electronics are off. Most of the trainers point out tests that have shown where even a powered off digital camera will interfered. Usually a foot or more distance lessens this effect but close proximitity is bad. In other words, do not but electronics in a coat pocket directly over, or near, your transceiver.
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