Outdated and horribly designed, poor from Pooley’s
As title says, poor from Pooley’s even thinking selling this rubbish is acceptable, horribly designed even from last update 4 years ago it would have been outdated.
Cannot Use
Whenever I click ‘register’ on the from page it goes to a white screen and no further, you can’t go back or anything, have to close the app.
Can’t even register waste of money
Glad I have the paper version as the app is useless, do not buy!
Fails at first hurdle, blank screen lock up on pressing register. Tried 2 devices same issue, even after a restart. Tarnishes the Pooley brand. Fix or discontinue sale of this shoddy product
Fails at first hurdle, blank screen lock up on pressing register. Tried 2 devices same issue, even after a restart. Tarnishes the Pooley brand. Fix or discontinue sale of this shoddy product
Locked up within seconds
Pressed register and it locked up with a blank white screen. Unable to get it to work on a brand new iPhone
Registrar Freeze
Downloaded this app and followed instructions to register. Screen freezes with blank presentation and nothing. Just how am I supposed to get access to the iPlates?
Pooleys iPlates
Simply doesn’t work, don’t waste your money. Stick to paper or buy with SkyDemon.
Can’t even register
Enter my details, back comes a grey screen, that’s it. Glad I didn’t subscribe to the plates first ...
Auto update totally useless!
The auto update feature and even attempting to download any updates to the app is impossible as it just errors out after about 5 minutes trying.
Needs a lot of work, suggest start over. Will not be renewing.
Needs a lot of work, suggest start over. Will not be renewing.
Not Georeferenced
Despite what it says on just about every flyer forum these plates are not georeferenced. The minimal amount of Pre purchase information on Pooleys website is appalling. If you want the proper georeferenced versions you will have to purchase within another App such as SkyDemon.
The iPlates App itself is pitiful. The handling of search, favourites etc is poor. The only way to make use of the plates properly is to export the pdfs to a third party App then organise them manually.
Total waste of money.
The iPlates App itself is pitiful. The handling of search, favourites etc is poor. The only way to make use of the plates properly is to export the pdfs to a third party App then organise them manually.
Total waste of money.
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Poor user interface
The plates are good, as you would expect from Pooleys, but the app is very poorly designed and implemented. For instance, to download all plates to be available off-line (which I am sure most people will want to do) you have to wade through a PDF instruction manual to find out that you have to type 'Pooleys' manually into the search box in order to make the menu choice appear. That is quite stunningly idiotic! Unfortunately that is not the only amateurish aspect of the design. I hope Pooleys did not pay much for it.
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Love2fly
Yes, its a nice way to get your plates. Pooleys are the best at the printed version and in-valuable in the cockpit. But you should not have to pay for iPlates that are free on the AIS. I fully understand the need to finance the app, but you could be given this free with the flight guide.
Go the your local AIS service. You could download Airmate app or similar to get these plates for free.
Go the your local AIS service. You could download Airmate app or similar to get these plates for free.
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Lacks refinement
App works. Just. But the user interface is confusing and the organisation of plates almost nonexistent. Searching for plates by category does not reveal all the results it should. Also, updating some plates seems to have placed them outside the main EG list and there is no synchronisation between devices. So, my favourite plates on the iPad do not show up when I access the app from my iPhone.
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New version still useless
Despite the recent update to the app this app is still barely usable. The save all function never works, it downloads the first 5 or 6 plates and then gets stuck. This is the same on any device I've tried the app with. Having downloaded all the plates individually ( Which took an age ) the plates still appear unavailable when searching for then offline!
How is this app not up to scratch, surely it's nothing more than a simple file viewer?!?
How is this app not up to scratch, surely it's nothing more than a simple file viewer?!?
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Disappointed
The recent update managed to clear all my downloaded plates. I discovered this in the cruise on the way to an airfiled with a noise abatement procedure. So if you have to carry a paper backup then what's the point? Also at least one airfield I have to refer to crashes in the new version of the app.
Probably worthwhile as a free add-on to a paper copy but it can't be taken seriously & I won't be renewing my subscription.
Probably worthwhile as a free add-on to a paper copy but it can't be taken seriously & I won't be renewing my subscription.
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Don't waste your money
I purchased the pooleys iplates thinking I could use it in sky demon. Oh no they want you take out another subscription for that. Rip off and complete waste of money. Do they really expect me to close down my moving map to open their app to view the plates. It just complicates matters and distracts me from my flying.
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Can't register
Can't register. Fill out email and password click register then screen goes white and that's it.
If only...
I could log on! Have tried several times to register and when asked to sign on it throws back an error relating to my email / password.
Oh well, I'll stick to the old fashioned paper charts as they seem to work...
Oh well, I'll stick to the old fashioned paper charts as they seem to work...
Saves Paper!
Just a pity you do not get many updates. No aerodrome plates at all this year so far. Surprising as when I had the paper version the updates arrived every month. I'm a bit disappointed really. Have got to eat humble pie now as the aerodrome charts have just been updated. Gets an extra star.
Great App Pooleys
Great App, saves carrying all that paper around. Better price than last year. The licence allows you to use it on two iPads so that has been useful now that I have an iPad mini ; )
Great App, all pilots should have this… just in case!
It's great not to have to carry my whole flight guide around with me and have all the plates and information on my iPad. Having the latest plates by sync'ing every so often is really helpful. I found that new airfields that I hadn't previously downloaded suddenly appeared - it would be helpful if Pooleys could advise when a new plate is issued.
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