Aero App

Outstanding integration of nearly all military aviator needs. Simply need two things for this to be a 5-star app: -ability to change manual route point names so they're not lat/longs that clutter up the map -ability to tap map to add point to route

With TAC and Helo charts added, this is an excellent app for any pilot- especially flying cross-country VFR. Bit of a pain to set up the account, though.

Considering this is free to US Military this is an amazing app. I have extensively used foreflight as well so I feel that I can offer some points in comparison. Overall, as one would expect foreflight is a much more polished product. That being said a foreflight military flight bag subscription can be rather expensive. However Aero App offers the ability to view GIANT reports while foreflight does not. This is a very helpful feature for pilots who fly heavier aircraft and have to worry about pavement strengths and taxiway clearances. Additionally the E6B feature of Aero App has some nice features. Also, Aero App now offers Jeppesen plates which can be helpful when there are no FLIP plates available to the field to which you are flying. Both Aero App and Foreflight offer ADS-B connectivity. I have not used this feature so I can't speak to it for either app. Some negatives -Aero App currently does not offer any satellite, radar or graphical weather for locations outside of the United States. (It does offer METARS and TAFS oversees.) -Aero App does not allow for word searches in planning pubs such as the AFD, AP's, FIH, Enroute Supps etc. Although in a pinch you can easily transfer the document from the app into a document reader and complete a word search that way. In summary, if you are given a free or significantly discounted Foreflight subscription I would probably use that. In the past couple of years I have seen Aero App continue to improve and I hope it continues to do so, as I believe it is a nice, free alternative to many of the other EFB apps on the marketplace. In my case I will likely switch to using Aero App exclusively when my Foreflight subscription expires instead of shelling out the couple hundred dollars for another Foreflight military flight bag subscription. For me, Aero App has everything I need and it is free. As always of course, your mileage may vary.

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Taking these guys forever to get no where. ForeFlight is the standard. Why not make it similar? So glad my unit finally gave in and dropped this app and is willing to pay for the app that actually works great (foreflight).

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This is, BY FAR the most user unfriendly app developed! Nothing is intuitive in the flight planning process and very difficult in finding where the flight plan tab is located (a small arrow in the bottom left corner of the moving map tab that doesn’t have any lettering referencing flight plan)! If you have airspace overlays on and you long press a location to try to add that location to the flight plan a window pops up that will not allow you select the waypoint - only the type of airspace you long pressed. There is no color weather radar capability for the app also. DAFIF management is absolutely frustrating with changing your password and then downloading your particular area of interest. (There is a quick tab that allows you to select CONUS or other regions when you finally get there. Even that process is laborious and not intuitive). WHEN your password expires (after you have received emails four weeks out) the number displayed on the geoaxis website is NOT the number you call! When you call that number you are told to call another number because they don’t handle Aero app password reset requests. What isn’t told to anyone is the Aero app is managed by a different entity that piggybacks NGA products for the app. On top of all this your PKI certificates can drop from the server and not allow you to sign in until you sign in to a government computer and reset your account! If our command did not require us to have this app for flight I would delete it immediately. Spend $200 on ForeFlight and avoid ALL THE HASSLE! Almost worthless.