In my recent trip to the west coast, I wanted to check what cities the carrier was flying by. When I started up the Navigation app, I found the app took much longer to pin down current location, the app used about 3 mins, because the A320 was flying very fast. After the GPS signal got received and processed by the app, my location would show up on the map, and I could know which city the A320 was passing by.
However sometimes the map could not show at high resolution, and at other times the Navigation app just exited by itself when I rotated Nexus 7 from portrait mode to landscape mode. The reason may be due to the tablet was not connected to any network. However I could not replicate this case on the ground when the WiFi connection was turned off.
Without network connection, the Maps app could not work at all. I could not zoom into high resolution map, the other layers could not be loaded either.