Garmin Pilot Reviews – Page 9
5/5 rating based on 121 reviews. Read all reviews for Garmin Pilot for iPhone.
Garmin Pilot is free iOS app published by Digital Cyclone
I love this app! I believe it is the best EFB
gawerron
I was a ForeFlight user for several years until I got a coupon for Pilot after upgrading my GPS. At first, the interface was quite different from FF, so I was apprehensive, but now after using it for a while, I love it. It is a common home screen GUI with the panel mounted GTN750, so I get a kick out of the paradigm. And this this release, adding a bunch of features and doing several improvements to the log book (although not really mentioned in the release notes), it has become indispensable for me. The additional of checklists, W&B, advanced aircraft performance modeling - and then having all of that actually feed into flight planning - NICE. While FF will communicate with a Garmin panel, not surprisingly, Pilot does a better job of making this easier. An example is changing your flight plan and then updating the panel. It's seamless with Pilot and clunky with FF. Overall, a very well done release with great new features. I love it.
Pilot MAY become my primary EFB ...
Adamclimber
Longtime FF user that downloads and tries the competing apps every year or so. Downloaded the trial of Pilot and !SnapDog!, I liked it. Subscribed to VFR option ... and loved flying with it. Upgraded to IFR subscription and THEN 8.5 launched. You mean I can have checklists on a split screen!!!???!! I think FF is still more intuitive, and had the procedures thing figured out ... but Pilot wins in every other category. Only thing I'm not crazy about is the proprietary ADS-B thing. Hmmmm ... choices, choices.
VERY nice app
172Capt
- Tons of options - You can overlay everything on the maps (FF doesn't allow this) - Checklists! It seems like Garmin pilot has the most options of all the big EFBs. One issue I noticed: checklists don't stay cleared when you tap "clear". I wouldn't mind seeing a traffic pattern advisor and more options for ADS-B units. This app is really giving me a reason to switch.
Great app!
Ranferi Denova
I've been a Garmin Pilot user since version 1.0, and the latest addition is great! I specially like the Garmin base map, which looks similar to the G1000 base map. Keep up the great work, guys!! The current version now includes Jepp charts, which are amazing if you plan to travel internationally!
Weight & Balance Issue
Tiredofwaitingforhelp
My aircraft has a small baggage area forward of the datum, which would require a negative moment arm. However, no provision is made to enter a negative number. I'm unable to make full use of the W&B feature until this is fixed.
Excellent EFB for a Flight Departments, Big and Small
kchunter289
I have been using Garmin pilot for over three years now. I serve as the Chief Pilot for a large flight department and Garmin is simply the best. All of our pilots use it and love it, especially with GDL-39 ADS-B overlay. If you have used any Garmin device in the past, you will easily take to the app. The Jeppessen chart incorporation is really nice too for international operations. Great value and customer service/support that is second to none makes this my EFB of choice. Not to mention, Garmin is so far ahead of everyone else in aircraft avionics.
Flight Planning to User Waypoints
Kilo42
I just downloaded this as an addition to what we currently have in the cockpit. I have not been able to get it to load User Waypoints into a flight plan, other than touching the screen each time. To use the search function it basically has to start off with an aviation database location. then use the graphical (touch screen / rubber band) to add user waypoints into the flight plan. Also once something is "direct to" you can't add / modify it without starting over again. With a 695 etc, these are all normal functions. In the current state it does not fill my needs no matter that I have paid for a year global subscription, to hopefully not have any restrictions in the trial software.
Not dependable
Dr. Nick
What should have been an easy to use tool for pilots is unfortunately completely unreliable. With each new update either with Apple software or with the app itself, it is a complete crapshoot if the current version will work. As a subscriber since it's inception, I have grown tired of glitch after glitch, the latest just today, where the app fails to sense its own database. Support for the app is during business hours Monday through Friday. This is hardly helpful in flight planning, especially when there is still another problem. There are too many good, stable, and competing platforms to put up with this app.
Not accurate!
700/900
There are lots of mistakes, mostly 200 cary overs. Some just flat out wrong definitions. You need to be strong on 200/700/900 system differences in order to use this app. It's embarrassing to spout off 200 stuff on a 700 or 900 oral. This is the second time I have written the review. Somehow they took my first one down.