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#1FMS

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I'd like to start flying again, and since it's been about 10 years since my last flight, I'm not current on flying apps.
What is a good flight planning/GPS app for Android devices?
What kind of service/subscription would I need to get full use of the app?
Thanks
 
Avia Weather is a really great app for gathering weather info for flight planning.
You can view the Metars and Tafs in raw code, or decoded to plain English, which might be a nice feature if you've been away from aviation for a decade and not as proficient at reading them as you used to be. It'll help you get the hang of it again.
 
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I use FltPlanGo. It's got some weird issues, but overall it's really good.
My main gripe about it is that to go direct to a smaller airport that has a letter and number ID (like 2J7) it has to be typed in with a K prefix, so it'd be K2J7.
 
z987k said:
For Android FltplanGo is probably the best. It's completely free to.
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mikecweb said:
To whom?
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z987k said:
For Android. For iPad, I would have suggested forflight.
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Whoosh.... Unless....

z987k said:
I would have suggested forflight.
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Was this a meta grammar nazi post? I'm so uncertain....

Stinger said:
I use FltPlanGo. It's got some weird issues, but overall it's really good.
My main gripe about it is that to go direct to a smaller airport that has a letter and number ID (like 2J7) it has to be typed in with a K prefix, so it'd be K2J7.
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I used it for a while and it started getting a little buggy (probably fixed since) and I tried Garmin Pilot for Android. I just used the trial but it was quite a bit better. Still had some bugs that I thought were silly.

It's been a while since I've tried either of them. They could have both improved a bit in that time.
 
Fltplan Go in conjunction with their website is one of the best GA flight planning and data sources. I learned about it flying corporate 9 years ago and have used it for GA flying ever since.

On first impressions it can look slightly unrefined in its design, but it really does deliver the essential data and of course it's free too.
 
Cal Goat said:
Fltplan Go in conjunction with their website is one of the best GA flight planning and data sources. I learned about it flying corporate 9 years ago and have used it for GA flying ever since.

On first impressions it can look slightly unrefined in its design, but it really does deliver the essential data and of course it's free too.
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So much more accurate for turbines as well.
 
It lacks some neat features like a virtual HSI and other graphically enticing things as well. That was what I enjoyed most about Garmin's offering. It looks a lot better.
 
FM_Weasel said:
It lacks some neat features like a virtual HSI and other graphically enticing things as well. That was what I enjoyed most about Garmin's offering. It looks a lot better.
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There's some people I know that go flying VFR and they bring multiple GPS devices, ipad for foreflight, another ipad with synthetic vision (maybe those are combined, idk), stratus, SPOT locator, and a wifi hotspot.
There's a point when it just becomes too much.
 
mikecweb said:
To whom?
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z987k said:
For Android. For iPad, I would have suggested forflight.
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