Not Your Swiss Watch – PC-12 Calculator Review

At first blush, the app is presented in an attractive and functional user interface. Buttons and options are well placed, easily accessed, with computations readily presented for analysis. If this were the only criteria upon which to rate it, I might have given it 4 stars for the first-out-of-the-gate issue. However, the exhaustive and repetitive disclosures, disclaiming responsibility and reliability, aroused my curiosity about its usefulness. In analyzing the Maximum Cruise Power settings I discovered that the app calculations diverged, lower as the temperature rises for torque, fuel flow and TAS, than presented in the POH. And no calculations are provided by the app for many of the "in-limits" flight regimes that exist in the POH. Obviously, it would be very helpful to have another option to the POH performance charts or the Simcom power setting matrix. And granted, I only evaluated the one area. But given the seemingly routine ability to plug in the known look-up-table database contained in the POH, I am rather discouraged about the app's overall usefulness.
Review by jaxmemo on PC-12 Calculator.