Air Manager vs PMDG CDU DEVICE Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Air Manager
Design custom flight simulator instrument panels on your iPad. Connect to popular simulators like X-plane and FS2020 to use your iPad as a primary or secondary instrument display. Offers over 1000 free instruments and intuitive touch controls for a realistic simulation experience.
- Custom instrument panel design
- iPad as primary/secondary display
- Connects to X-plane, FS2020, P3D, FSX
- Over 1000 free instruments
- Intuitive drag-and-drop interface
- Control simulator functions via touch
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Air Manager lets you design custom flight simulator instrument panels on your iPad. Panels can connect to X-plane, FS2020, FS2024, Prepar3d and FSX. Use your iPad as a primary instrument panel and have your computer monitor for outside view only, or use your iPad as a secondary com stack to easily set frequencies through the iPad touch screen. Air Manager comes with more than 1000 free instruments. Add, drag, scale, build your instrument panel in only a matter of minutes. Save your created panels, and switch between them quickly. User friendly No difficult settings or downloading and configuring of third party applications. You can download the necessary plugins from our website for free. We offer a complete solution! Place instruments anywhere you like Tap an instrument to add it to the canvas, hold and drag to rearrange, and pinch to scale, it’s as easy as that. Loads of free instruments The application comes with more than 1000 free instruments, and this collection keeps growing. Buttons, Switches and Knobs Controls like Buttons, Switches, and Knobs let you control the simulator from your 2D panels, so your Flight Simulation is super realistic. Setting a radio frequency or the altimeter setting, moving electrical switches, and controlling the autopilot are just a few examples of what you can do without directly accessing the flight simulator. Multiplatform and multi simulator The Air Manager plugin runs on Microsoft Window, Mac OSX, and Linux, both 32 bits and 64 bits, and is compatible with Laminar Research X-Plane 9, 10 and 11, Microsoft FSX and Lockheed Martin Prepar3D.
PMDG CDU DEVICE Pro
Wirelessly send CDU data and button inputs from PMDG 737, 747, and 777 aircraft to your flight simulator. Enjoy features like night shift mode and full-screen support for an immersive experience.
- Wireless CDU data transmission
- Button input to simulator
- Supports PMDG 737, 747, 777
- Night shift function
- Full screen support
- 3D model rendered images
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This app works with PMDG 737 (NGX, NGXu), 747, 777 You can get CDU data from these plane and send button data to simulator wirelessly. Feature: - No IP setting for this app. - Night shift function. - You can use this app for 737/747/777 - Support Full screen. - All image rendered from 3d models Supported Program - FSX (Flight Simulator X) - FSX:SE (Steam Edition) - P3D v1, v2, v3 and v4 (64bit) Notice - You need another PC program called CDU Server 1.9 (it will not connect if you use previous server program) visit http://cduapp.tistory.com/41 for more information - News and further info, check out this site. http://cduapp.tistory.com/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PMDG CDU DEVICE Pro at $7.99 against Air Manager's $22.99. PMDG CDU DEVICE Pro also leads on review sentiment (46% vs 31%) and device support (3 vs 1). Air Manager's advantage is rating (3.0 vs 2.6). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Air Manager costs $22.99 and PMDG CDU DEVICE Pro $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Air Manager holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 17 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 31% of Air Manager's written reviews are positive against 46% of PMDG CDU DEVICE Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Air Manager | PMDG CDU DEVICE Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $22.99 | $7.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (29 ratings) — better | 2.6 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 30.8% of reviews | 46.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 897 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sim Innovations B.V. | Sungbae Cho |
Customer experience
Air Manager
PMDG CDU DEVICE Pro
In-app purchases
Air Manager
No in-app purchases
PMDG CDU DEVICE Pro
No in-app purchases
Questions
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