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Nope, they use iPads primarily, which doesn't have a means of removing a sim.
The app most use is called ForeFlight, to a lesser extent an app called WingX or one from Garmin that I believe is just called Garmin Pilot, they all have a 30 day free trial in iTunes feel free to play with them, they work on a phone too. If on android the options are the Garmin app and one called Naviator. Probably won't get a GPS lock in an airliner, though, you'd need to be in the cockpit. GPS signals won't go through metal, but work fine for pilots through the windshield.
The iPad is the more popular option due to the android apps having sketchy video acceleration in the apps themselves and ForeFlight being around the longest of these apps and being iPad only.
Source: I fly, own a small airplane, and use an iPad mini for maps, charts, and as a backup GPS in the air in case the panel mounted NAV/COMM unit in my plane fails.
The app most use is called ForeFlight, to a lesser extent an app called WingX or one from Garmin that I believe is just called Garmin Pilot, they all have a 30 day free trial in iTunes feel free to play with them, they work on a phone too. If on android the options are the Garmin app and one called Naviator. Probably won't get a GPS lock in an airliner, though, you'd need to be in the cockpit. GPS signals won't go through metal, but work fine for pilots through the windshield.
The iPad is the more popular option due to the android apps having sketchy video acceleration in the apps themselves and ForeFlight being around the longest of these apps and being iPad only.
Source: I fly, own a small airplane, and use an iPad mini for maps, charts, and as a backup GPS in the air in case the panel mounted NAV/COMM unit in my plane fails.