I‘ve currently advanced myself (sofa pilot) to use my 13“ iPad with the smartphone beside me on tripod as my „flight deck iPad“ (bit small but ok) for simbrief/charts to study departure/arrival procedures during flights. Though the 737 Max hasn‘t got the PFD command bars and bugs yet, flying this IF simulation gives a real training on how earlier pilots managed to handle older 737-200 without any fancy displays.
How many of you do study charts during flights on IF?
Well I have to admit, I don’t study EVERY chart, but I generally study the approach plates, and STARS for important airports/complicated routing. I tend to leave most SIDs up to simbrief, but I will occasionally study the SIDs.
**NOTABLE EXCEPTION: KJFK - I think I have studied every chart for my home airport as well as arrival flows, same with LGA and to a lesser extent, KEWR. 
I just have my phone open with the chart open
As for New York airspace and other highly congested ones, I know most of the procedures that take place irl
When I got more serious about flight simming realistically, and using Simbrief often, I subscribed to Navigraph alongside IF.
I use all the charts when planning a serious flight, not as much to duplicate an IRL route as much to set up something that’s plausible for the origin/destination.
While the Navigraph data is more recent than IF’s, any flight plan I make in Simbrief can usually be adapted to IF’s available waypoints etc without too much trouble. And having RL altitudes for the waypoints involved can help iron out some of the WEIRD altitudes IF’s procedure importer throws in there on occasion.
All in all, it’s a great combination for just about every kind of flight, even basic GA hops - Navigraph includes the FAA VF Sectionals exactly as published….
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