Neal Shade

I just tried iFlightPlanner and compared to what we had lots of things needed to get back to where we were.

1. unless I missed it, there is no way to modify a plan by removing a waypoint after it has been added. you must start the planning process over.
2. There was a button that would show winds aloft in a profile view (not available) and you could select the altitude for the whole plan or a segment
3. on the map display there was an option to have wind direction and speed arrows
4. it would be great to have tutorial videos. the PDF doc with instructions does not cover everything.
5.  If i understand correctly, we have to upgrade to Core within 60 days to keep access? the iFlightPlanner site says its free for 60 days. Is AOPA giving us "Core" level access or are some features blocked?

We didn't have an Android version with the previous planner but at least we could print out a lapboard size flight plan. Would have been great to have an android version to upgrade to. Flight plan docs in iFlightPlanner are full 8x10 sheets of paper.

Overall, this is a bit of a let down from what we had before..

That said I am looking hard at the iFlyGPS. VFR package (79.99) It has a couple of ways to look at the flight profile which is big to me, is more intuitive than iFlightPlanner and runs on android. The only catch is to run on 2 platforms (windows and android for example) requires a 24.95 a year upgrade. It works with a lot of ADSB devices out of the box, and has a cool feature called "Real Plan" the automatically chooses the best altitude and route based on parameters you put in. iRealPlan is still beta but works very well. No I dont get commissions or work for iFlyGPS, they just seem to have the closest to what we had before with the ability to run on android, windows or i things

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I just tried iFlightPlanner and compared to what we had lots of things needed to get back to where we were.

1. unless I missed it, there is no way to modify a plan by removing a waypoint after it has been added. you must start the planning process over.
2. There was a button that would show winds aloft in a profile view (not available) and you could select the altitude for the whole plan or a segment
3. on the map display there was an option to have wind direction and speed arrows
4. it ... more

I just tried iFlightPlanner and compared to what we had lots of things needed to get back to where we were.

1. unless I missed it, there is no way to modify a plan by removing a waypoint after it has been added. you must start the planning process over.
2. There was a button that would show winds aloft in a profile view (not available) and you could select the altitude for the whole plan or a segment
3. on the map display there was an option to have wind direction and speed arrows
4. it would be great to have tutorial videos. the PDF doc with instructions does not cover everything.
5.  If i understand correctly, we have to upgrade to Core within 60 days to keep access? the iFlightPlanner site says its free for 60 days. Is AOPA giving us "Core" level access or are some features blocked?

We didn't have an Android version with the previous planner but at least we could print out a lapboard size flight plan. Would have been great to have an android version to upgrade to. Flight plan docs in iFlightPlanner are full 8x10 sheets of paper.

Overall, this is a bit of a let down from what we had before..

That said I am looking hard at the iFlyGPS. VFR package (79.99) It has a couple of ways to look at the flight profile which is big to me, is more intuitive than iFlightPlanner and runs on android. The only catch is to run on 2 platforms (windows and android for example) requires a 24.95 a year upgrade. It works with a lot of ADSB devices out of the box, and has a cool feature called "Real Plan" the automatically chooses the best altitude and route based on parameters you put in. iRealPlan is still beta but works very well. No I dont get commissions or work for iFlyGPS, they just seem to have the closest to what we had before with the ability to run on android, windows or i things

Show Less

I just tried iFlightPlanner and compared to what we had lots of things needed to get back to where we were.

1. unless I missed it, there is no way to modify a plan by removing a waypoint after it has been added. you must start the planning process over.
2. There was a button that would show winds aloft in a profile view (not available) and you could select the altitude for the whole plan or a segment
3. on the map display there was an option to have wind direction and speed arrows
4. it ... more