Looking for a fun aviation app to feed your aviation fix over the holiday weekend? We suggest checking out this realistic iPad flight simulator, which allows you to fly one of 21 exciting airplanes in a variety of wilderness environments.
Apple includes a free service that allows you to track down a lost iPhone or iPad. Here we’ll show you how it works and how to set it up a free account to use this feature.
ForeFlight is incredibly capable app for pilots, but do you know how to use all the features? This interactive quiz will test your ForeFlight knowledge and teach you a few things along the way.
The latest update to the Garmin Pilot app adds some useful new features to the app, including automatic night mode, PIREP filtering on the maps page and the ability to transfer flight plans between the D2 Bravo smartwatch and the Garmin Pilot app.
A new app from Honeywell Aerospace provides a unique way to research and brief instrument approaches by allowing you to visualize procedures in a 3D environment right on your iPad.
There are literally hundreds of settings in the main iPad settings app, which can make it difficult to sort out the useful ones from the clutter. Here we’ll look at 7 important settings pilots should know about and adjust accordingly.
The Aerovie reports app continues to pack in new features in 2016, and the latest update adds a new intelligent flight planning tool to help pick fuel stops and alternate airports when the weather is low.
Unplanned holds tend to get assigned at the most inopportune times, towards the end of a flight when the weather is bad. A new app aims to take some of the guesswork out of flying a hold, by allowing you to enter all the pertinent data and displaying both instructions and a visualization of the procedure right on your iPad.
While the iPad has delivered excellent reliability since the day it came out, there are still a few issues that can pop up if you’re not careful. Here we’ll review potential problems and how to resolve them.
There is no shortage of pilot logbook apps available on the app store, but there aren’t many options for maintaining aircraft times and records. A new app called Black Box Aviation aims to fill that void, allowing you to create maintenance records that are searchable, easily shared and securely backed up in the cloud.
The number of aviation apps continues to grow daily, with hundreds of options for flight training, weather briefings, games and so much more. Here we’ll take a look at the top 10 non-EFB aviation apps we see pilots using most often.
Most pilots know ForeFlight as a full-featured aviation app for iPad and iPhone, but aren’t aware that they also offer a web-based flight planning application. This was recently enhanced to provide full airport information as well, including weather reports and forecasts.
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