Air Navigation Pro App Reviews

Wonderful app for VFR flight, IFR flight, too, I would imagine, but Im not IFR rated. My only complaint right now is the inability to subcribe to charts because I havent received the code from the publisher. E-mail to the developer has been unanswered. Would be nice to get the latest charts.

UPDATE: added a star... Sectionals updated! Thank you! Great app. Does some really practical functions in a clean way, lots of information at your fingertips. Ive used this only a little in the cockpit myself... (new pilot) Usually i have my 10 yr old son run it... Why only 3 stars? Easily fixable. One star for better documentation, it appears the doc is for the iPhone not iPad (?). The other star... Updated US Sectionals, I emailed a request for the updated ones, weeks ago, still waiting. Not sure they understand theyre updated every six months. We (VFR pilots) need current sectionals to be legal. The $0.99 price for the sectional is great though! Gladly pay it every six months for several of them... If theyre current. Wish list... A super simple Checklist tab.. A list like the waypoints would do. And maybe a scratch pad.. Where we could jot down times, or squawk codes. Great work. Worth the price! Thanks so much...

Except every time I fly with it, and if I get higher than 500 ft agl the 3GS signal drops along with the gps functionality. This device is fun to play with on the ground but not very practical during actual use.

Waste of money. No guidance or help in how to use the app.

• The database is ok especially for the money invested. I would like to be able to touch the airport icon and add the airport to my flight plan instead of having to go to any editor. • Secondly, it would be nice, when you touch and airport icon, it would also tell you how far you were from the airport selected. • It has no weather information or FBO information, fuel prices etc. With no weather, there is no information on winds. • I could not find any place to load aircraft or emergency information into. So it cannot guestimate your ETA • It cannot file flight plans electronically. I could not find this feature if it does. Also during sectional zoom, it just magnifies the sectional and does not switch to a TAC where available. • It does have both MH MC indications as well as ETE and ETA which Foreflight does not. • Screen is easy to read gives a lot of useful information during the flight. • Shows bearing and track • A free elevation map is available and you can switch between maps from a menu. • The simulated instruments do really work, although not always very quickly. This is an iPad issue I believe. • It has both north up and track up. • For people without the 3G/GPS version of the iPad, it works with a selected external Bluetooth GPS receiver. I have not seen it work, but the option is there in the settings menu. Probably more accurate than the iPads internal one. • With this app and a few others added to your iPad, you really wont need anything else. There are plenty of aviation weather, FBO, airport apps that along with this app would work just fine and not have to spend $70 to $100 a year on charts. • Once Apple releases iOS 4.x for the iPad and multi-tasking, youd be able to switch between apps at the touch of the button and continue where the last app left off.

As a student pilot I had been pricing garmin gps units. Even the used 295s were selling for $500+ on eBay. So I bought an iPad and this app instead and just in time for me to take on my first solo cross country. The documentation could be a bit better for how to use it to its full potential, but I was able to create my flight plan easily. Took it on my cross country trip and it worked great! Being able to see a nearby airport or vor and just tap it to see all the key info such as frequencies and runways is much easier than trying to read the numbers on a sectional chart. If you fly and want an easy to use in flight gps with a great display... This is it!

Ive been waiting a long time for an affordable flight navigation app for the iPhone. Ive been using PocketFMS for the past years on a Dell Axim, and although PocketFMS has great features, Ive never been too enthusiastic about the user friendliness. Add a sluggish Dell Axim PDA, in-flight crashes or GPS signal lost (and almost impossible to restore) and it was clear I needed something else. Let me start that I like Air Navigation Pro . Its easy to use and is very responsive. I dont fly that often, so I dont want an expensive solution with high subscription fees. Let me share my experiences after two flights, using a TomTom car-kit (this boosts GPS reception, made it easy to attach my iPhone against the side window of the Cessna 172 and the power cable ensured charging while flying). The good: - The interface is like you can expect from an iPhone/iPad app: easy to operate, finger pinch to zoom in/out, drag to move the map, etc. - The free provided airspace information and free back-ground maps are good enough for me. In fact, I find them more pleasant than PocketFMS. Not all information from a VFR map is there, but when Im flying I dont care about where all obstacles are (Im flying VFR, and see where Im going; I always do a thorough flight preparation anyhow using official maps, so I know where to expect peculiarities concerning airspace and other need to know restrictions). - Anti-cluttering works nicely (better than PocketFMS IMHO). - Airspace filtering: you can set it to only show airspace within plus minus 1000 feet. Very convenient while flying. - Fast (on iPhone 4) - The app can be configured to act as a web-server. At home through your wifi connection you can access the app through your desktop web-browser and download flight details (logbook, breadcrumb trail which can be viewed in Google Earth, flight plans). - Stable. I have not encountered crashes (other than trying to connect to the GoVFR website, see below). The bad: - Version 3.5.0 should enable you to upload navigation plans from GoVFR.com. Doesnt work, the app just exits (note: I checked out GoVFR, but as it does not yet have airspace information for the Netherlands, its of no value to me). - European flight maps (can be purchased) for use in Air Navigation Pro: outrageously overpriced (definitely not "for a fair price" as stated on the vendors website). The US sectionals are indeed very cheap, but paying over twice the amount I pay for a paper copy of a given flight map (that I have only use for in the app) is over the top (compare: almost 40 times as expensive than a US sectional in-app purchase). - Selection of next way-point algorithm can be improved. For my first flight (with Air Navigation Pro) I was following a navigation plan that was a flight starting/ending at the same aerodrome. This also meant that the paths from and two were close to each other (ca. 15 miles apart). During the second half of the flight, visibility was rapidly deteriorating, so I decided to select "direct" to the airport. As the weather improved again, I loaded the original navigation plan back in. Air Navigation Pro selected the closest way-point, which was on the opposite leg, instead of selecting the way-point I was directly flying towards (I was aiming straight at it and also almost back on the original navigation track). This can easily been improved in a next version. - There is no link to i-Flyte, the checklist app from the same vendor. Although you can start Air Navigation Pro from the checklist app, it is not possible to do so the other way round. You can use Air Navigation Pro to keep running in the background, unfortunately the checklist app does not, so you always have to start from scratch. I expect to be able to access my checklists directly from Air Navigation Pro. Shouldnt be too hard to do. ...and the wanted (in other words dear developer: please please please add to the next version :-) - Add extensions to files downloaded through the web-server. E.g. adding .kml to a breadcrumb trail, would make it immediately recognizable for Google Earth. - North up arrow in the map. Although it is very easy to switch between "heading up" or "north up" displays, it is hard to tell where North is on the "heading up" display. - Flight plan construction: please add rubber-banding, i.e. enable dragging of track between two way-points and creating a new waypoint in-between when letting go. Now adding an additional way point between way points is cumbersome. Also dragging existing user-defined way points should be possible. - Add the possibility (just like PocketFMS) to upload own (scanned) charts. This would mean all of us with paper copies of approach charts are able (for personal use) to scan them in and use them in Air Navigation Pro. All it takes are just two coordinates on the map (e.g. top right and bottom left) to ensure it fits in nicely. This is a must IMHO, especially with the current outrageous prices for approach charts. - Create an overview of all data necessary to file a flight plan (e.g. providing distances from way points from a VOR). Bottom line: I give this app 4 stars. It will provide you with basic flight navigation functions that should be more than sufficient for the average VFR pilot. If above wishes are addressed, I will happily upgrade my rating to 5 stars.

I was Looking for a moving map with accurate calculations on all trip related information (ETE, ETA, groundspeed, etc.). The calculations are quite good and match up with our airplanes FMS. However the free maps do not present well when zoomed out. First, you can only zoom out to a 100 mile scale. Second, when zoomed out there are no geographical boundaries like state lines or city names, so being able to tell where you are at a glance is not possible. When zoomed in the detail is excellent which is probably more suitable for short trips. The free maps have to be downloaded one state at a time (for U.S.). The app crashed multiple times; most often when trying to pan the map. Rendering was surprisingly slow given the map data was downloaded and not being pulled from the Internet. The database of fixes and waypoints appears to be extensive and the search feature is very good. Compiling a flight plan took some work and a few references to the user manual. It was not easy to change on the fly when clearances changed or given a direct-to clearance. In fact I couldnt get the direct-to function (as described in the user manual) to work at all. I mustve been doing something wrong. That option wasnt present in the pop-up menu like it is pictured in the manual. Theres probably many features that are good that I did not explore since I was mainly interested in the moving map and tracking. But Im disappointed that I paid $37 and came up short.

GREAT APP! .1 version has some needed chgs. Revision to fuzzy maps... Deleted everything. Re-downladed app and maps and maps are clear again. The USA sectionals when zooming down to a 6 mile setting display properly but you see very little around your plane. Zooming out one level more produces a fuzzy Vfr sectional that is unreadable. If this is fixed then its a great update otherwise its unusable.

I downloaded enroute to purchase an airplane with old steam guages and no GPS. I hope this will help me get home, bit so far it has been a bit of a struggle to figure out how to set up and use:-(

I bought this app to have back NAV on trip from Livermore CA to central TX to get a bird home I bought. It worked unbelievably well, with one caveat: I have difficulty in figuring out how to input a flight-plan. I have done it, but it is not intuitive and I would not attempt it in-flight. The D-> (Direct To) feature is simple and much easier than many other handhelds. I routinely fly cross- country with it open and running and follow my D -> trackline as backup to my Helm 650. As well the Nearest Airport feature is very easy to use. Highly recommended, just wish the flight-planning were easier to use.

Aviation requires prompt responses to issues. It is not a question of speed, but of getting answers in a reasonable timeframe. Unfortunately, support is just too slow. Meaning any issue will cause non-use of this app for weeks! Dismal

I have not found any problems whatsoever in this version. Works as intended, but still waiting on radio frequencies at smaller airports in USA.

When I bought this app one could download sectionals one at a time for 99 cents. Now one must buy the entire data base for $10. When you only need one sectional, it just adds to the cost and hassle factor of flying. Using air nav for your sectional was not perfect, but it worked, and with some neat features. Now one must put up with that hassle AND pay $10. What is going to happen when the FAA starts to charge for data?

best air navigation on iphone that i tried. I love the way you can overlay the free geo maps, and the ability to add your own custom waypoints. one thing they need to improve is that the frequency information for some airports is missing, otherwise I would have given them 5 stars. However, consider this application only as an in-flight navigation system. Its really weak on the flight planning side. For weather info consider a different app like aeroweather. Very quick response by email from customer service (important also). BTW, I read some reviews that complain about not having heading or distance information in flight, elevation data, and ability to select which waypoints to show. All these are available! But some require configuration or loading additional database. One thing I was disappointed to see in the latest version (4.2) is that rendering the geo maps is slower than the previous version (4.1). Not that it is a big problem. It still finishes the rendering in a couple of seconds, but looks like the speed optimization that they are using in 4.2 is working in the opposite way.

Really the app to beat for simple navigation planning and information. The support is excellent and updates and fixes proves the point. The app is constructed in a simple intuitive fashion. Keep up the good work!

How do I contact the programmer? There is a glitch with the identifier info tab in the route list. It continues to load the same info regardless of which airport I touch. If I look at one airports info then select another it continues to load the first info. How do I fix this?

1- impossible to calibrate the artificial horizon while in flight (or when engine is on) as it is too sensitive. 2- compass gives false reading when on artificial horizon mode. (keeps on turning,,,) 3- maps- will be helpful to be able to get google maps, or other local maps, with higher resolution, as an additional layer. Other then that - excellent app. I bought the Garmin 695, and dont use it, since this is app is up and running....

Great App for planning and in-flight use for navigation, airport selection and many other features. This is the App for use in Europe as it contains good maps for VFR and most of the IFR structure waypoints. I would like to see the programmers continue to add other features for European use (IFR ELA charts, smaller scale VFR maps) but overall much better than their competitors who do not currently have any navigable maps for Europe.

This is a great VFR app for a very reasonable price. Out of the two things I missed, one has now been implemented, the scratchpad in the lockscreen, which is much more clever than the one found in e.g. Foreflight. The only other thing I wish for is the ability to customize the instrument layout. I would for example want to have a screen with some notes, where I could write down dep/arr info and keep that visible all the time. Plus to rearrange the other items on the instr layout to just have the data I want there. Other than that, this is just a great app with great potential.