SkyCharts XC EFB Reviews

Original Skycharts Pro Purchasers Getting Ripped Off

avguserguy

Skycharts Pro owners were promised regular updates free of charge, now it’s a paid subscription. Do not support this shady business, their business practices have shafted those that supported them in their infancy.

Frequent crashes

Rmm34

App crashes about every 5 minutes on iPhone 7 10.1.1. Thank you so much for what was a fantastic app for years (pro). New app essentially useless in flight due to unreliability. Even the download process does not work properly; if one pack fails, no button to retry download. Too bad you stopped supporting the good app. It is time to move on to something else.

Greatly improved!

Gabe12243

The new update resolved a lot of the bugs and issues of the previous version. I use this as a drone pilot and it is very helpful. I am able to update charts and subscribe successfully in the new version.

Downloading charts is impossible

Zaney Laney

Good luck trying to download charts. My phone to s burning up and and my battery is dying while download progress is not getting anywhere. Been trying for hours. I would NOT recommend this app.

Will not work !

Prior fish owner

SkyCharts Pro worked with no problems but this XC version has many faults on my iPhone 6S . 1. After downloading XC I picked the north east download with plates , after a long time it finished loading and every time it starts it goes to the west coast and the only way to get to the east coast is to drag across the entire US to the north east . Now every time you go into the data to change layers Ect it goes back to the west coast and it starts again and no matter what you have selected in the prior move it always ends up on the VFR map and you have to try and start again with no chance of changing it . There is no way I can find to set the starting airport in Massachusetts like I want ! It has failed to work with my Elite Simulator software period ! Now I have deleted the app 3 times and again down loaded the North East with the same results. I would like to subscribe but will not if it doesn't work with my Elite or iPhone 6S software

How did it get worse?

Cndnbcn

This is the updated version from the old SkyCharts pro. It's clunkier, slower, doesn't interface with sims, why is my current location always used to start route planning? It's just obnoxious. They ruined a good, simple thing. This new version adds nothing on the old one, just a bad interface. The sim thing was nice to have, but not a big deal, but for it to not even load charts sometimes when I open it up, that's an issue. It basically has one job!

Previous version was much better

Egor*+=

The most important thing about a chart is to actually be able to read it. The previous version of this app had excellent chart clarity. But not the XC version. It's all blurry when you zoom in to read things like frequencies and obstacle elevations. Total waste of time.

BBQ Pilot

MeatSmoker

What's up with the banner ads on the paid version recently? No good. Takes forever to load now.

Fantastic!

iLoveGizmos

Love the geo-referenced plates directly on the map! Flight sim support makes it easy to practice approaches! And support is great, got an answer right away!

I wish I could rate higher

Nickn@me created

I've done my best to support this developer. I'm a flight instructor who has suggested this app to my students for years. I'm not sure why he decided to completely change the app, but it is absolutely for the worst. It is about as un-user friendly as you could possibly get. I have flown with the old app all over the country and way down to the south tip of the Bahamas. It used to be that if I needed an approach plate or airport diagram, I could bring up the airport and click on what I needed. It downloaded it right there in seconds. Unfortunately, the old version no longer exists. I paid $4-$5 for this new app, so my wife and I could take a trip. Nothing on it worked. We couldn't bring up a plate without downloading several states. After several attempts and an hour per attempt, they never did finish downloading. We had to make the trip without a working app. Several dollars well spent. Also, the auto renew on the subscription made me mad. I'm all for the guy making money, but this is ridiculous. I had to google the way to turn off the auto-renew, and it wasn't easy. Of course, Apple makes it as complicated as possible.