Ken Carter

Since I am a user of the desktop flight planner, I am disappointed with the decommissioning. My first thought was "why not just get another map engine". I like the AOPA desktop planner because it is the only one I have used that gives you the wind optimization table like that - though sometimes the results were a little odd with respect to TAS and total fuel as you climb.

But to me, a more serious problem is this issue of the "evolving technology" that made the desktop planner obsolete. Translated, what that REALLY means is that, "everyone just uses ForeFlight now". That's all well and good - I don't HAVE to have a desktop version. However, I am not an Apple fan (gasp!!), I don't use ipads, and I don't use ForeFlight. So, where is my non-Apple alternative? I have tried several, and in particular I have AOPA-Go on my phone. The problems is that it sucks. All the non-Floreflight portable flight planning Aps that I have tried suck. AOPA-Go in particular is clunky, cumbersome, slow, and riddled with bugs and weirdness.

The way to replace the desktop planner is just to give us an Android package as good and full featured as ForeFlight - or at least give us all the functions of the desktop planner in a good, fast, usable Ap. Because that's what ForeFlight is.
 

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Since I am a user of the desktop flight planner, I am disappointed with the decommissioning. My first thought was "why not just get another map engine". I like the AOPA desktop planner because it is the only one I have used that gives you the wind optimization table like that - though sometimes the results were a little odd with respect to TAS and total fuel as you climb.

But to me, a more serious problem is this issue of the "evolving technology" that made the desktop planner ... more