SkyRadar

Of course to use this app you need one of the sky radar receivers. That said, having real time in flight tfr and weather info is awesome. Unlike the other adsb products available, with sky radar you are not required to keep paying for updated charts if you don't need them. The app and weather will still work. I have also seen real time air to air adsb traffic targets in skyradar even though my aircraft does not have an adsb out transponder. Pretty cool. I've used the app about 25 flight hours so far with no problems and with the adsb weather info that it provides, it has made trips possible that otherwise would have been delayed. the other review is untrue regarding resolution and types of charts available. If you domt download the charts then if you go offline the resolution will be poor while you are limited to the cache. The chart resolution is great for online use and areas that you download prior to flight. you can toggle between sectionals, ifr low, high, Tac, etc. approach plates are also included.

I use this APP for cross couontry flying in 150kt airplane and it is great!! gives GS, terrain,course line, flight plan, everything i needed. It even has, slew to airports, that give all info,i.e. rwy config, type, distance, hdg and dist to arpt, freqs, classb,c,d etc info,etc. I even was able to avoid a MOA that I was about to clip on recent flight. Excellent app, well worth the $25 a year and it saves lots of money over paper charts and is MUCH more convenient. Now I am going to find a way to mount it in my panel, hopefully airgizmo's will come up with something soon.

I've been using the Skyradar receiver and software for the past 8 months in my Van's RV7A and I would recommend it to anyone tired of writing a check to XM for weather. The support has been great, I get a call back usually within an hour. The software has been improving with every new release, it is very stable and I get everything I need. I think the negative reviews are probably from those who don't have the receiver.

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I downloaded the demo version for my iPad and took it up for a flight. Probably has loads of neat features, but the user interface is terrible! Does not do anything using standard directions that a normal nav program/moving map would do. The aesthetics are pretty terrible too. Needs: 1. more attention to standard tablet/aviation user directions. one should be able to tap, say, once on an airport to get METARs and the standard TAF symbol for TAFs in the area. one should be able to, say, tap twice on an airport to get detailed information about that airport. 2. overlay onto maps. the ADS-B is a powerful tool, but would be better if we could see it on the IFR or VFR maps for better situational awareness. again, the current interface is problematic both in terms of form as well as substance. 3. other traffic. there should be a traffic warning screen akin to the garmin 430 or 530 indicating any traffic within 500 feet, with a direction to look. ADS-B is definitely the future. but this app hasn't yet taken advantage of it effectively.

I use several aviation apps (WingX, Foreflight, etc.) and the SkyRadar app is my favorite. What I like the most is the low demand on system resources (WingX overheated my iPad 3 several times on my last cross-country) it's very straight forward, better in-flight ADS-B weather and traffic depiction than others. Admittedly, it's not the most full featured (SynVis on WingX is pretty incredible), but otherwise it's always running on one of the two iPads whenever I fly!