Air Navigation Free App Reviews

You should upgrade to a moveable compass without a nav point to use whenever

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Boring got free one just t rite the review

Compass needs to turn when changing directions!

The app is a good concept but the database leaves little to be desired. For Nevada in the USA, Winnemucca and Ely? Get real. Nobody has been to either places in the last century! What happened to BLD and LAS VORs? Why arent they in your database? Two of the most important VORs in Nevada. Reno? Mormon Mesa? VORS... NDBs are all gone. I deleted the app. sorry..

To complicated

Pretty sure this is the only app of its kind. You can literally select and navigate with real aeronautical navaids. Of course this is accomplished through GPS by knowing the phones position and reproduces the instruments behavior. This could be a very valuable training aid to new pilots. Although, dont expect to find all navaids. Ive found its missing some important high altitude VORs like BNA and PSK. Its hard to tell why this is, maybe the database the author got is not complete. One nuisance is having to scroll through all the countries when trying to find navaids. It would be nice if this list was editable like other programs to limit the choices to ones home country. Overall pretty cool. Looking forward to improvements.

For some reason it wont find the GPS position. Other apps work but his one just wont.

This app sounds pretty cool, but it is missing so many nav aids and has no airports so it is pretty much worthless. Well for free it is worthless. As a pilot I recommend you not waste your memory with this app.

I like the idea, and it does have promise, but right now its hardly even worth the effort to load it and try it. Very, verrrry limited database; I mean, heck, nothing for PVD?

Apples forcing you to upgrade to a 3GS

Really great and useful thanks

Im running this app on my 3GS, which has a decent gps chipset and a built in magnetometer. So why doesnt the compass know which way Im facing when I am indoors? Why dont the nav displays depict the correct bearings/radials? Cant be helped in non-S model iPhones, but apps like this are where the 3GS really shines. Cmon Mr developer, do some of that objective C stuff! Id have alteady bought your "Pro" version if youd got the 3GS features enabled.

Ive used this app for a long time and until this last update thought it was mostly good. Great concept, just missing navaids. With the latest update the developer went overboard. While there is every published vor and ndb (which is all the app was missing) there is now every grass strip someone has landed an airplane at in the last 50 years. I dont mind seeing a few private use airports as ling as they are listed on a sectional chart. If you want every 500 foot strip of grass, great. But give me the option to filter it out and browse by private airports, public airports, and navaids. Its great that the app launches 25x faster, but it crashes far more often than before. If I ever need this to get me home in the clouds when my electrical system goes out Id like to know I can count on it to open and stay open. Fix those two things and Ill return my review to the 5 stars it once was.

The lock-on is still slow, but the developer did a great job addressing the flaws in the previous version. Nicely done.

This is another program not worth the time and effort to install. It does not work on the iPOD Touch. The compass function does not work on the car dashboard or the top of the instrument panel of the airplane. Useless plus no technical support response. Save your money. Captain Bob Fuller

Neat idea. Would prefer the moving map instead of just the HSI (with the free one) but dont want to spend until I learn the extent of the database issues. My home airports freqs are 4+ years old and WRONG. Once the DB is updated, Id buy.

Good idea but, on any HSI Ive flown you can set HDG independently from COURSE. Not having this standard feature makes the APP kind of silly.

When trying to use this without any instructions is maddening. How do you select a new station or vor? Being a pilot Im clueless.

Works great and is very useful. Works like the real instruments if you understand how they work.