fDeck User Reviews

Name: fDeck: flight instruments
Rating: 4.8 (257 reviews)

fDeck: flight instruments

Darren Yeates

📊 Productivity

🗺️ Navigation

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of fDeck. Based on 257 reviews and a 4.8/5 average, it highlights the 12 positives and 9 negatives reviewers mention most about this Navigation app.

Positive things

👍Extremely easy to use and navigate
💡Comprehensive aviation instruments (compass, altimeter, VSI, attitude indicator, ADF, VOR, HSI)
🎯Useful for training, learning, and practice
✈️Reliable backup instrument for real flights
🗺️Integrated map and flight planning features
⚡Responsive and smooth performance
🌍Real-time weather data (METARS, TAFS, radar)
💰Good value for lifetime unlock pricing
🤝Excellent developer support and responsiveness
🎨Professional design and presentation
📱Works well on multiple devices (iPhone, iPad)
🔧Highly configurable and flexible instrument layouts

Negative things

📺Intrusive ads in free version (full-screen, hard to close)
🔄Compass and map pointer display inverted on some devices
🗺️Map loading issues and missing sectional charts
🔌X-Plane simulator connection glitchy and unreliable
📱No iPad split-screen support
📊VSI accuracy issues on some devices
🎯VOR OBS reverse sensing (displays like back course)
⚠️Incompatible with some older iPhone models (SE screen format)
🔋Weather data occasionally inaccurate (pressure readings off)

Top reviews

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Minor tweaking

Fantastic app…I use it for some secondary flight instruments for flying my ultralight. I wonder if the VSI could be made easier to configure for scale, I never see 1000 ft/m so 2000 is redundant . Could we see 0-1000 so the scale would be easier to read and more accurate for small altitude changes? Thanks again…… love the app!

Slowisfun

a month ago

Very useful App

I have just come back to this app. I had forgotten how brilliant it was. It works well for GA pilots and on X-plane simulator as well. I highly recommend.

Cyclicpk

3 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for the review. It was specifically built for GA pilots so I'm glad it is hitting the mark. Please let me know if you have any ideas for improvement/addition. Regards, Darren.

Best aviation app hands down!

I’ve used many aviation apps but this one is hands down the most useful. Super easy to navigate its features and lots of options. It’s the perfect back up!!

govsux

5 months ago

Great app!

Extremely easy to use. Very well laid out. You can spent a lot more on something else and get a lot less. Highly recommended!! Only problem I had was trying to upgrade my service if you can believe it.

govsux

6 months ago

A Happy Customer

The App is an excellent tool to learn, teach, or practice the use of many avionics devices that you might not have in your plane; and the developer is great at responding to questions, comments, or suggestions.

Athankful customer

7 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the review and feedback - I built the app to do exactly this so I am pleased it is helping you! Regards, Darren.

Incredibly useful

Really just a great app, it does exactly what it says and does it well.

colma2

7 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for the review! Regards, Darren.

Excellent App!

Use it every flight! I use both the GPS Ground Speed and the ADF instrument (GPS based) on every flight. Several other well appointed instruments as well. Very easy to see in flight and works flawlessly. The ADF points to the GPS target entered and gives DME. A quick glance is all that is needed to see if you are heading to your target. My private grass strip is somewhat hidden in a forest so this is quite helpful. Thanks!!

Rob27617

a year ago

Response from developer

And this is why I built the app and continue to develop it! For users like this. So pleased that fDeck is proving useful to you and I am super happy to hear how you are using it. If you feel so inclined to grab some photos of you using it in your cockpit and email them one to me I would be very pleased! Thanks again - Darren.

Impressive NAV app

Concise, easy to configure, even easier to use. H/T to the developer. Thanks for the work and effort you have put into this fine app.

Would like to see compass work in horizontal configuration (180 degrees off (iPhone SE)); and, just for driving fun, a CarPlay functionality to impress my in car navigation officer.

RDLGSTX

a year ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much for taking the time to review, I really appreciate it. Noted re. the compass, I'll look into it. Car play is on the backlog and agree it would be quite cool to have the instruments working in the car :-)

Excellent addition to the cockpit

I have been using this as an additional aid to navigating since January-it works fantastically as a stand alone product, very flexible in what you can see. I am currently set up using it as 1x2 instruments in a 1/3 screen to SkyDemon. At a glance gives me great flight and situational awareness. Looking forward to the potential EFIS version. Good work.

DenXD63

a year ago

Response from developer

Great to hear how you are using my app and I am glad you are finding it useful. Please let me know if I can do anything to make it better! Cheers, Darren.

Works great (mostly)

Works great for almost everything except the compass is inverted, and so is the pointer in the map

"my name was taken" was taken

a year ago

No updates

There are improvements that can be made to this app.

Flyguy337

a year ago

Great app

Great

Rans Pilot

2 years ago

Amazing

Worth the money

Tasos U.K.

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the review! Enjoy the app and let me know if I can improve it in any way. Cheers, Darren.

The free version is almost useless due to ads

The free version is not free. It’s made almost useless by full screen ads. Some of them you can’t even close. You have to close and reopen the app. I wanted just the altimeter as I drive through the mountains a lot. But after about 2 minutes you are forced to fumble with the phone and close an advert. Extremely bad when driving through mountains. Maybe make the free version actually free.

RiderFan09

2 years ago

Response from developer

The free version is indeed totally free. I put a huge amount of work into making and maintaining this app for people. If you find the ads inconvenient then you can subscribe for the price of a cup of coffee per month. The ads can be closed without exiting the app. Thanks for the feedback though, Darren.

This app is going to be so cool next time I fly on a plane

I love that you made this app, it’s amazing and so easy to use. I’m an aviation enthusiast and I can’t wait to use this when I get on a plane next.

One other thing I appreciate a lot, thank you for being a human who is going through and replying to these reviews and not a bot that puts the same thing. That’s underrated. Keep up the work!

PilotEXE

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for the thoughtful review! Darren.

VOR OBS reverses sensing

Displays like a back course . Need fix so TO indication results in flight to needle Are you going to fix the reverse sending BC VOR Needles? I don’t want to buy premium til I see the repaired.

jab switch tundra

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hi there. This is fixed in the latest release.

Brilliant product

I have this installed on my iPad and I use it in my AION EVTOL, The depth of this program is incredible

AiroflyEVTOL

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for the review! Your EVTOL design is incredible and I ams so happy that you have chosen fDeck as its flight instrumentation :-) Let me know if you need anything improved. Regards, Darren.

Really cool app

I have been searching for this app for a long time. There used to be similar ones but they disappeared. Thanks to the author. Keep up the good work.

MikeT46

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks Mike, appreciated, and I am happy that you found my app. All the best, Darren.

Truly excellent

Beautiful app, clearly with a great deal of care and attention in its development. Great for simming but I’m also using it in real life as a heading bug tool on an aircraft that doesn’t have one fitted. £30 seems a reasonable price for a lifetime unlock and the dev is very responsive to feature suggestions.

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