Apr 02, 20 our statistics at sportys tell the storywhen we offer the exact same app at the exact same price on both platforms, the ios app will outsell the android app by huge numbers. While they didnt get the early jump like foreflight, garmin debuted their full featured pilot app for ipad, iphone and android two years later in. There are plenty of other quality apps out there we also fly with wingx, fltplan go, aerovie and many others but the data weve seen suggests that this has become something of a coke vs. Every pilot i know that tried to make the android efb thing work has eventually given up and gone to foreflight, because there is always something quirky or broken. Visualize your weather with vertical weather profile, weather threat detection, and radar forecasting with the most powerful efb on the market. Organizations have myriad choices for apple, android, and microsoft. Im not an apple fanboy, and enjoy using android, so just curious if anyones used that also. Foreflight logbook strives to maintain this ability with photo attachments. You will navigate a short xc flight through the sfra and land the airplane with no other information except the ipad using synthetic vision on a simulated ifr approach. You can access the attractive features and mapping routes from the website of fltplan to your. You want to download foreflight on windows 10 pc, tablet. Foreflight can display flarm traffic in addition to adsb traffic for better situational awareness and flight safety.
Ipad versus android or others, foreflight etc modern. As far as the general perception that foreflight is better, i suggest a healthy dose of highwinglowwing, continentallycoming, nosewheeltaildragger. Foreflight vs aopa flyq efb cessna 172 forum cessna 172. Foreflight is one of the best apps out there for aviation. Apr 20, 2015 foreflight introduced a major upgrade to its popular navigation app at sun n fun 2015 in lakeland, florida.
Jeppesen, foreflight partner jeppesen, foreflight partner may 4, 2017 by dave hirschman in a pairing reminiscent of the odd couple, startup software innovator foreflight and charting pioneer jeppesen have formed an alliance they say will expand both companies market share in general, business, airline, and military aviation. Best tablet for foreflight post by cpncrunch thu apr 14, 2016 4. Any aviation apps for nonipad tablets android tablet forum. Many people have asked for an android port of the program. But even this app usually lags the ios version in terms. The ipad has brought a range of powerful safety featuresfrom uptodate charts to terrain alerts to inflight weatherinto thousands of cockpits, and for less money than ever before. May 19, 2016 january 25, 2019 nick leghorn general aviation. View profile view forum posts join date aug 2011 location tucson, az. I see a lot of foreflight is better, but not many concrete reasons why. Foreflights ceo on ipad and aviation air facts journal. In terms of tablets, i prefer android in general, although i would recommend avoiding samsung due to all the crapware.
Foreflight is the essential, integrated flight app that makes planning, flying, and logging flights a joy. At this point, foreflight has been around long enough that you know their flagship product. Ive used foreflight and ipad for years but have always had an affinity for samsung. Foreflight has a couple more features, but sd is much easier to use. Naviguer avec foreflight patrick lafleur mon site web. Android nexus versus apple ipad may 19, 2016 january 25, 2019 nick leghorn general aviation i havent been flying very long, but over my short life in aviation ive watched as tablets and their aviation apps have exploded in popularity. It would be a complete rewrite for a market that has a history of not being willing to pay for apps. Garmin debuted their fullfeatured pilot app for ipad, iphone and android two years later in the spring of 2012. Some of those app developers, such as foreflight, focused exclusively on devices that run on apples ios platform, which, for all intents and purposes. You can access the attractive features and mapping routes from the website of fltplan to your android smartphone, and you can easily use this information for offline and inflight use. Ive used foreflight for years and its great, they keep adding features. I use a samsung galaxy tab s, 8 inch and fltplango. So since i already have a samsung android product, does it make sense to get an ipad just for froerflight. Putting foreflight mobile and garmin pilot to the test.
Naviator ive heard from android nation that i need to show more love to their apps. This app is known as the foreflight of the android. He always presented to a packed house and has fielded countless questions about foreflight functionality over the years. Apr 14, 2017 foreflight and garmin pilot have slowly but surely become the dominant aviation apps over the last year. As usual, there are camps with very strong opinions in opposition to the others. Check out our library of new features, tutorials, and tips on how to get the most from flying with forefligh. Major aviation app developers seem to agreeforeflight has no app for android and wingxs android app looks to be on life support.
Scout is an affordable, pocketsized dualband adsb receiver for inflight weather and traffic on foreflight. Nov 22, 2012 now that i have my mooney home, its time to do some serious flying. When it comes to garmin pilots primary competition foreflight the choice is clear. Electronic flight bag and apps for pilots foreflight. Foreflight aircraft profiles and can include people from your devices contacts, and allows you to enter certificates, ratings, and endorsements to track your or a students progress. So, for those that have used both, should i make the switch. Ive been using foreflight mobile since version 2, and raving about it on twitter the entire time. You can help us keep flightaware free by allowing ads from flightaware. Good news for our international customers and flight planners foreflights imagery view now provides a greatly expanded collection of international forecast and weather products, covering south america, europe, and the atlantic and pacific oceans, in addition to the canadian and mexican imagery that has been available. Before flying with your ipad, make sure foreflight is updated and has current data. In particular, all canadian notams available on the navcanada website are now available in foreflight, saving our canadian and crossborder customers valuable flight planning time. I think for that reason the industry has pretty much come to use the term georeference to apply to approach charts and taxi diagrams, a. The debate of apple vs android vs microsoft is interesting to me.
Every time i ask a foreflight user what is so much better, they tell me features that i have for free or trivial nonsense of marginal utility like the ability to place the approach plate on the map view. Foreflight introduced a major upgrade to its popular navigation app at sun n fun 2015 in lakeland, florida. Any aviation apps for nonipad tablets discussion in android tablet apps started by montyhall58, nov 22, 2010. Droidefb gives me the efb functionality i need on an android device. Thanks to the developers of this awesome, continuously improving, android app. Feb 09, 2014 problem is, unlike foreflight with the ipad, there doesnt seem to be any single android app that has a unanimous zomgz this is all you need reaction. Ipad versus android or others, foreflight etc modern mooney. I know it gets down to personal preference, however it would be hel. Apps are updated to fix bugs, add features, and to improve performance and stability.
The new tool alerts foreflights tfr desk team members, who then take immediate action to correct the tfr graphic and distribute it quickly to foreflight customers. Garmin is the exception, with a fairly comprehensive android version of their garmin pilot app for ipad and iphone. In a pairing reminiscent of the odd couple, startup software innovator foreflight and charting pioneer jeppesen have formed an alliance they say will expand both companies market share in. Passenger is the companion app to foreflight mobile that lets your passengers follow along with the flight and know when they can expect to arrive. I used to have a lot of apple products, dont like how they handle their accessories and how the products arent capable to be customized like an android which is simple to root. Foreflight vs aopa flyq efb cessna 172 forum cessna. Ive just landed at goose bay after a week long trip to oshkosh. Foreflight s tyson weihs gives an overview of the app in this avweb product minute video. Garmin may have been the largest general aviation avionics company at that time, but they found themselves in the position of playing catch up in the mobile app.
Flight planning, aviation weather, maps and charts. Oct 23, 2015 simply put, the ipad will change how you fly. Foreflight is an integrated flight app on ipad, iphone, and the web. As a pilot, you rely on web, mobile, and datalink apps and services to display accurate and uptodate tfr information. Answers to many of your questions can be found in our helpful guides, videos, and searchable database of questions and answers. You can add unlimited photos to flight entries, aircraft profiles, certificates, and endorsements, all of which are saved with the rest of your data in the foreflight cloud, and are accessible from any of your devices. Discussion in flight following started by danhagan, apr 29, 2016. Foreflight lets you carry with you all the vfr and ifr charts including instrument approach and departure procedures you need to complete any u. I only bought foreflight because skydemon does not cover canada. Problem is, unlike foreflight with the ipad, there doesnt seem to be any single android app that has a unanimous zomgz this is all you need reaction. Not able to connect to adsb transponder over bluetooth occasionally, etc. Cet abonnement rend tout le contenu canadien vfr et ifr disponible. Aerovie electronic flight bag and pirep submission. E6b aviation calculator is one of amazing aviation application.
This app is known as the foreflight of the android world. For a more indepth look inside these apps and to see how i use them in the cockpit i. Foreflight ipad app pro plus subscription from sportys. And it really seems to come down to apple vs android. Please include a description of your issue or question and what type of device you have ipad or iphone. Designed specifically for foreflight, the sentry adsb receiver packs a lot of punch for its size and price, allowing you to receive and display adsb traffic, weather, and flight information in the foreflight mobile app. Foreflight hello, i am discarding the near worethless garmin pilot app and i am looking at going with wings x or foreflight. Foreflight flight status with flight tracker and live maps view all flights or track any foreflight flight. Foreflight delivers advanced flight planning capabilities, terminal procedure charts, enroute navigation charts, moving map, synthetic vision, hazard awareness, optional jeppesen charts, a comprehensive library of marketleading weather information and visualization features, a large. There is no android version, only an ios version available at this time.
While they didnt get the early jump like foreflight, garmin debuted their fullfeatured pilot app for ipad, iphone and android two years later in. It is compact no larger than a deck of cards in fact, and a single charge provides 12 hours of continuous operation. As a long time microsoft user, and more recent apple adopter, i feel like im somewhere in the middle note. Foreflight ipad app pro plus subscription from sporty. They are constantly innovating and rolling out new version on a consistent basis. One of the most revolutionary devices in aviation right now was never even designed for pilots. This app is beneficial for you because it has more than 75 aviation calculations, unit conversations, and aviation weather reports. So i shot a quick video showing you guys some of those features i love and use on a regular basis.
Offers inflight weather and traffic on foreflight, ahrs, internal waas gps, longer. Foreflight customers now have access to a wealth of new international notams in the app. That said, i did find one regional airport that is not shown on sd. Foreflight connect is a platform that allows portable and installed avionics to connect to foreflight mobile and provide features such as twoway flight plan transfer, weather and adsb traffic, rescue attitude and the gps position. Oct 15, 20 foreflight management, please do not port it to any other platform, especially dont port it to android, it will just increase the cost to all existing users, reduce foreflight business profitability and dramatically increase development and support costs, and further it will dramatically slow down the progress of new functions and features. I have my required paper charts which is ok, but would like some input from users about the following. Jeppesen, foreflight partner jeppesen, foreflight partner. Hes also seen the look in pilots eyes when they learn about an amazing foreflight feature they didnt know about. Aviation apps you cant live without aviation apps you cant live without. Ipad versus android or others, foreflight etc sign in to follow this.