GarminPilot or ForeFlight?

[patrolpilot]

Anyone have any experience with both. I'm a FF user but have been considering GarminPilot since I purchased my 337. ForeFlight has served my needs well in the patrol plane, doing a great job of keeping the complex patrol at my fingertips (image).

What I did like during the GP trial period, was the ability to use my Samsung (Android) phone with the app, which is not available with FF. I'm adding a Garmin Flight Stream 210 to end the knob turning with the 430s, and with GP, both my phone and iPad could communicate with the 430s through the FS210. As a note, the Android-based phone is needed; it is feeding a lot of data into google based applications while on patrol.

A majority of my 337 flying will be on an IFR flight plan, so the need to manipulate the 430s seems is a primary consideration. I did not use GP on my patrol during the trial period — an oversight on my part.

What are you guys and gals using? Any thoughts?

[YankeeClipper]

I like iFly. The only thing it lacks is real flight planning (no wind correction columns, which is very strange). But it is cross platform-- even windows-- and can share all data across 5 different devices. Very full featured (except planning).

[patrolpilot]

Originally Posted by YankeeClipper

I like iFly. The only thing it lacks is real flight planning (no wind correction columns, which is very strange). But it is cross platform-- even windows-- and can share all data across 5 different devices. Very full featured (except planning).

Thanks for the info, YC. Yeah, the flight planning is a must (and subsequent transfer to the 430s). My four reoccurring flights are from 822 to 1222 nm. That's a lot of planning and waypoints.

The work on my airplane is finishing up. Today, I found a coupon for a 3-month subscription to GarminPilot in the Flight Stream 210 material. I will run them both and see what fits best. More than likely, I suspect that I will stick with ForeFlight as the patrol flying and the environment it takes place in has made me very comfortable with it.

My first trip since purchasing the airplane and coming out of maintenance will be taking me to the western part of my State for a mule deer hunt!

[patrolpilot]

Does anyone subscribe to ForeFlight Performance Plus? If so, what do you think of the C337 cruise performance that is included with it?

[hharney]

ForeFlight Perf + = It's spot on guys

These platforms for EFB's are all pretty good, Garmin and ForeFlight are tops but some of the other platforms provide the same info. It's just personal preference and what you get used to. It's hard to change after using one of these apps for a while. Price is probably the best deciding factor but when I make a living flying clients I want the best option out there as the cost difference in the end is a really small part of the overall picture. If you don't have to take flying so seriously then FlightPlan.com is free, why would you not use this for free?

[n86121]

As my wife has many shoes, I have many flying apps. Its a race!

I use an Ipad Mini. Just right in the cockpit on a yoke mounted dispplay. I 4 of them. Well, ...one for the office/airplane. One for upstairs home, reading, news. One for downstairs, reading, news, flightplanning. ...And the old mini-2 that has a cell account for backup on overseas travel, should my phone die in some remote area, and was getting overwhelmed by foreflight.

I bought a lifetime fly-Q years ago, and found it very user friendly. Their philosophy is/was no more than two clicks from the 'next thing.' And their display friendly on eyes over over 20 years old. My major complaint is, they haven't yet figured out vector maps, so you are still using a computer to look at North up enhanced printed docs.

Sort of like using a UH Def display to read badly-cluttered roman scrolls.

In the airplane, Aviation-safety / Truemap is hard to beat, as its data presentation is well-boiled down to cleanly presenting just the essentials. ...But it runs on Windows hardware.

I have a Helmnav 650 display in airplane which beats everything for brightness and clarity, and touchscreen, including downloaded XM weather. In theory it should prt from a Stratus 3s as well, on the open format. Need to check.

Foreflight was funded w $10m VC money, I think Silver Lake partners. It has the most elaborate functionality, ...but was recently bought by Boeing. The thing that struck me most was Foreflight having so many programmers. Near 200 as I recall. Making wild guesses about number of subscribers would suggest revenue per employee seems too low to remain sustainable. Maybe that's why it was sold? And, ..will Boeing keep feeding all those programmers, or just start milking the foreflight cow?

I recently added IFlygps and find its display and user interface clean and intuitive.

I currently have a Strtaus 2s w proprietary interface, and am thinking of getting 3S so it will talk to all of these apps.

And my wife wants more shoes.... And has started riding a horse.

So, like any self-respecting corrupt government, I have to start rethinking resource allocation...