Foreflight or Garmin Pilot?

Foreflight. I get a discount so I can get it for $50/yr. Of course, I don't have geo referencing plates, but I think I'll survive without them. It's really useful on the iPhone.
 
I subscribe to both but prefer Garmin Pilot. The interface is easier to use in my opinion and also the symbology and user interface mirror the GTN units in my plane. If you get used to Garmin Pilot you'll immediately feel at home when using a GTN navigator.
 
I have a Google Nexus 7 tablet, and I paid for a years worth of Garmin Pilot. Worked OK, but when the fltplan Go app came out, I decided not to renew the GP subscription.
 
fholbert said:
Not sure i follow you?
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One can measure market appeal with numbers - users, dollars, whatever.
Quality is mostly subjective.
There have been many very good products, that arguably worked much better than the competition, that have not been successful in the market. I thought that was =your= point.
 
The fact that I can use the abomination otherwise known as Jepp FD Pro to navigate an airliner around, I have to believe that either Foreflight of Garmin is more than adequate for GA.

Seriously though, I did use Foreflight several years ago on GASP an ipad1. I found it to be impressive. It actually changed my whole perspective about tablets at the time. I was a Garmin fanboy prior to that, but it seems like they've lost their lead position in the technology race.
 
mojo6911 said:
What devices do you use it on? It seems really slow to load procedures on my Nexus 7 (2013).
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I had it on Nexus, and agreed. The PDFs seems to load slow. I don't think that has anything to do with Fltplan though, more likely the rendering from the tablet.
 
z987k said:
I had it on Nexus, and agreed. The PDFs seems to load slow. I don't think that has anything to do with Fltplan though, more likely the rendering from the tablet.
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It renders quickly with Flight Pro (used to be called Avilution). I think it has something to do with the way the app renders the PDF.
 
We are using wing-x pro simply because they integrate with our 2020 compliant ADSB boxes. I don't often fly the aircraft with the iPads but the guys who do wish we had foreflight. I used foreflight for most of my 91 flying around here and for the epic cross country down south and really liked it, no experience with Garmin pilot.
 
We use Foreflight, the documents feature for the GOM, Ops Specs, avionics manuals was a big selling point. Also we can also import all our special approach and DP plates into the Foreflight database.
 
Ayork62493 said:
I personally use foreflight since I have an iPad mini. But some of my students use te garmin app. In my limited experience, I've found foreflight to be more user friendly.
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I have tried all the dif charting services. Foreflight still best, in my opinion, being most user-friendly.
 
Used both extensively. 6 of one, half dozen of the other. Depends on what kind of ADSB box you use (if any), since they're not interchangeable.

FWIW, Foreflight seems to be on the bleeding edge as far as new features, but usually locks them up behind the "premium" subscription.

Richman
 
Can only speak for foreflight. No issues, user friendly, does everything I need it to do (and probably more). Runs great on the iPad mini too.
 
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