Great idea. If your wireless card in your laptop supports Hosted Networking (most do from the last few years), you can create a wireless hot spot with your laptop and connect your ipad/iphone directly to the laptop with WiFi, then use Lonely Screen. I just tested this with an old laptop and it seems to work great.
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Instruction on how to create the hot spot in windows 10 are here - How to turn your Windows 10 PC into a wireless hotspot
It only takes a few minutes...
Screen mirroring by wifi will cause interference when flying which will dramatically reduce your range i.ve tried it