Great EFB in support of IFR ops
A couple of frustrations here and there, but the team is very responsive and proactive with resolving. Overall, I would say this app saves operators a lot of money in fuel as finding the optimal flight level is made so easy. When the type data is set up correctly, you can expect flight times accurate to the minute and ground speed to within a couple of knots. Remember when weather and notams included several gps waypoints as reference? Well, not it just shows you where they are. Brilliant. Some of the aerodromes shown on the maps have been dis-established and aren’t there anymore. Wouldnt want to head for one of those in the event of an engine failure.
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AvPlan EFB Australia
I’ve used ForeFlight for several years, supplied by an employer, and have recently spent time using Garmin Pilot because my aircraft has a full Garmin avionics suite.
Quite frankly, I’m surprised at how poorly both of these highly regarded US-based EFBs stack up against AvPlan when it comes to actually operating an aircraft in Australia.
ForeFlight and Garmin Pilot may be excellent products for the US market, but for Australian flying they feel like square pegs in round holes. The Australian charts, weather, airspace information, briefing functionality and overall integration simply don’t come close to what AvPlan provides.
Having experienced all three, AvPlan is streets ahead for Australian operations. It feels like it was designed by people who actually understand the realities of flying in Australia, rather than being a US product adapted for the Australian market.
I’m also disappointed that OzRunways is now owned by foreign investors. That leaves AvPlan as, in my view, the obvious choice for Australian pilots who want an EFB genuinely tailored to Australian conditions.
After using ForeFlight and Garmin Pilot, I wouldn’t consider either of them a serious alternative to AvPlan for Australian GA operations.
Quite frankly, I’m surprised at how poorly both of these highly regarded US-based EFBs stack up against AvPlan when it comes to actually operating an aircraft in Australia.
ForeFlight and Garmin Pilot may be excellent products for the US market, but for Australian flying they feel like square pegs in round holes. The Australian charts, weather, airspace information, briefing functionality and overall integration simply don’t come close to what AvPlan provides.
Having experienced all three, AvPlan is streets ahead for Australian operations. It feels like it was designed by people who actually understand the realities of flying in Australia, rather than being a US product adapted for the Australian market.
I’m also disappointed that OzRunways is now owned by foreign investors. That leaves AvPlan as, in my view, the obvious choice for Australian pilots who want an EFB genuinely tailored to Australian conditions.
After using ForeFlight and Garmin Pilot, I wouldn’t consider either of them a serious alternative to AvPlan for Australian GA operations.
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Excellent
I have looked in detail at every other EFB and AvPlan is simply the best in the world.
Fantastic Tool
This is an amazing tool that helps with your situation awareness and makes Flight planning easy. From taxiing on the ground to navigating around sensitive areas to staying out of weather. An extremely well thought out program.
Great tool for all pilots
More responsive and helpful support than competitors.
Best in class
Excellent for commercial & private operations VFR & IFR. I have used it as an instructor, charter pilot, and EFB administrator as well as in personal flying. I would recommend over OzRunways any day of the week.
Senior Pilot
By far the best IFR Pilot App in the market
A plan
Best flight bag app with best support of all. AvPlan all the way
Review
Easy to use with plenty of features.
The satellite imagery maps are a great IFR aid.
The satellite imagery maps are a great IFR aid.
The best aviation EFB
Everyone in Australia has an opportunity to try two EFBs for free. My decision was AvPlan for several reasons: intuitive and simple to use VFR and IFR features, approachable, responsive support, open for new ideas. This is a must to have app for any aviator.
Excellent
After getting used to it, I won’t use another EFB. I fly charter in a light turbo-prop and I would definitely say that this EFB pays for itself in less than a week. How? To easily and accurately choose the optimum flight level - that means saving valuable minutes and valuable fuel. This EFB exceeded my expectations again and again. I’m talking flight times +/- 1 minute and fuel burn to within 1%. Obviously, it requires a bit of work on the aircraft profile. But once you get it “dialled in” it works like a dream. SIX STARS
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So good
Unfortunately I’ve been booted off the company subscription since I’m going to a new job that uses a competitor (starts with F and ends in oreflight), but avplan has served me flawlessly for the last 5 years. Customer support is always great. I’ll need to get my hands on an avplan hat so I can rep the brand worldwide. Thanks for making a great and local product.
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Awesome
Awesome
Why I like AvPlan
AvPlan is a miracle in the cockpit. It’s amazing the amount of information that is crammed into one small device. How do they do it? Flying has never been easier.
Very good EFB
A great app, developers fix issues when reported quickly too.
Dreadful
Used it for a couple of years and gave up. Whenever I really needed it it failed so had to use a paper map. I now use OzRunways which works fine.
Easy to use.
Easy to use. Less guessing how features work compared to other apps.
Just go OzRunways
Just about every feature is inferior and missing so many features of OzRunways. The UI is severely outdated and looks like something designed about 20 years ago with clearly no proper UI/UX designers being consulted. It’s missing a lot of features that OzRunways has and accessing the same information is cumbersome at best. If I wasn’t forced to use this by my company I absolutely wouldn’t use it.
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Ms
Great work,
Interface is a disaster
These tools are meant to be a planning tool and perhaps a nav aid, nothing more. It takes 20 min to plan a flight with Oz runways first time you pick it up. Takes 20 min to do it with a pen and paper if you have access to the information you need. Several weeks later and this thing doesn’t even recognise the performance data that I have selected let alone leave the planning stage. It keeps crashing and the amount of attention it needs in the air is outright dangerous due to the sub par layout and buttons. Save your time an money an get a map plus calculator. Or OzRunways..
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Response from developer
Thanks for the feedback. If you are having issues feel free to reach out to support for assistance. Thanks!
