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Really poor UI
It’s a mystery to me why Garmin have produced such a weak app. I have an Aera 660 which it is supposed to connect to but you can’t even transfer waypoints. There’s no vertical navigation view and the maps are just impossible to make head or tail of whilst flying.Hazlebury
Garmin pilot is very feature rich
I’ve tried both foreflight and Garmin and I will say the Garmin pilot app is much more feature packed and makes for seamless flight planning when using a Garmin gps equipped aircraft. I will only fly with Garminigoklutch
Great App!
I’ve loved using this app over the past year. More affordable and more functional than other competitor apps. However, is there any chance of getting a Apple Watch companion app/complications? That would be even better!Rileyj5
Exceptional software
I find Garmin Pilot functions well, and I give it high marks for user customization — however, an attribute that I feel also makes it less "intuitive", with a somewhat steeper learning curve than FF. While users can generally find they can "jump right in" to Foreflight, Garmin's Pilot took me a day or so before I reached the "aha!" moment. (True, I admittedly had to "unlearn" FF to embrace Garmin's logic.)
So the winner is?
For the occasional pilot and "weekend warrior" (which there are many),the hat-tip goes to software producer ForeFlight.
However, for the operator with an eye towards integrating existing and future hardware additions in the vast and continually expanding Garmin "eco-system", without question, it's Garmin's Pilot.Show lessflitetym
When it works it’s great
I love this app but the pre-release testing is inadequate. Every few updates it crashes nonstop and I have to remove the app from my iPhone or iPad and reinstall along with downloading all the data. I’ve never had this issue with FF. This is a serious problem with something I’m spending real money on!Show lessfrustrated-pilot
Better than Foreflight
Easier to use and a MUCH better interface design than FF. Keeps getting better and better! Now with open street maps! Nice! Switched two years ago and no regrets.jjcapurro
Excellent tool but support lacking
Garmin Pilot has progressively improved during its development. It was, however, the ability to send flight plans almost instantaneously from an iPad to a Garmin GTN 750 equipped with a FlightStream Bluetooth SD card that pulled me away from my previous navigation app and this remains a unique and enormously valuable feature.
Not so good is what appears to be a total lack of opportunity to interact with Garmin”s product support. The current problem with checklists highlighted this: first an upgrade deleted them all, then the next upgrade brought them back, now they are gone again and any new ones created and saved vaporise when the checklist pane is exited— very frustrating, especially as there appears to be no way of contacting Garmin to report these issues.Show lessashjg p
Beats Foreflight
Garmin Pilot was good when it was introduced and gets better with each version. I believe it has surpassed Foreflight in it’s latest releases. The planning is easier, the Home icons are easier for us older aviators, and a great feature for us IFR flyers is the auto-loading of Instrument charts for all airports in your flight plan being automatically loaded for you. I really recommend Pilot over Foreflight when I am giving instrument instruction and have e several converts. I also like how Garmin makes it’t hardware compatible with other programs while Foreflight continues to be proprietary. My students can connect to my GDL device and get all the ADS-B data. Full feature pilot is also a lot less expensive than Foreflight. Being able to run on two platforms and on three devices is also a plus.Show lesssbestcfii
Great app but missing a few key features
The app is absolutely great much better now for VFR UK pilots with their new partnership with NATS and access to NATS UK VFR charts but there’s one key feature that is missing and that is the ability to view frequencies that you need/may need along your route. I actually can’t believe they don’t have this as it’s so simple to implement and it’s definitely a needed feature for any pilot! A few more things I would like to see is route navigation warnings say if you have planned your route over a TFR or Danger area it should alert you so you can amend this, I would like to have the ability to look further in depth at TFR’s, restricted airspace and Danger areas as some may only apply to helicopters/microlights. I would like TFR’s, Danger areas and restricted airspace to be in a different colour rather than just blue so you can instantly know to avoid them. The app should display both aerodrome code and Name example- EGGD, Bristol. The app should also show you your distance from the next VRP along with you compass heading, example- currently ‘3nm S of E Nailsea VRP’. I would also like the ability to create more scratch pad pages. There also should be a cloud service where you can store your flight plans and there should be a better system for importing/sharing a flight plan rather than just by text or email. You should also be allowed to import your own plates/notes into the app.
I hope Garmin takes some of these comments on board ESPECIALLY THE FREQUENCIES COMMENT, this app is so close to being my go to but right now skydemon is just better because it displays the frequencies straight away and it has better location information and flight plan sharing and storage. However if you’re an IFR GA pilot in the U.K. I believe this is your best option right now nothing comes close to this as an IFR pilot assistance application for Europe it would cost you £240 for all Europe IFR charts and the subscription compare that to foreflight which would be $300 for the subscription then another $782 for all of Europe’s IFR charts with Jeppesen, this is clearly the better option.Show lesskillercoww1
Much better than Foreflight
Hands down better than other navigation apps.Ekbatan65
