Comparison

FlyBy Nav vs Flight Ops

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

FlyBy Nav

This app simplifies flight planning by allowing users to input departure and arrival points, along with wind data. It provides a comprehensive overview of flight details including track, heading, distance, speed, ETA, and fuel burn. Users can access a vast database of airports and navaids, plot routes on a map, and utilize weather information.

Highlights
  • One-screen flight detail display
  • Fast waypoint database search
  • Great circle route plotting on map
  • Offline airport and navaid database
  • METAR and TAF weather access
  • User-defined waypoint saving
Features
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Flight planning is as easy as tapping in your point of departure, arrival and winds! In one screen, FlyBy Nav displays track, heading, distance, ground speed, time enroute, ETA, and fuel burn. - Fast database search and lookup of waypoints. - Search function lets you search for an airport using its identifier, name or city name. - Stores your favorite aircraft cruise performance numbers. - Plots your great circle route on map. - Quick Charter Quote feature. - Track units in either Magnetic, True, or Grid - Sunrise/Sunset and Azimuth feature. - METAR and TAF weather access. - 55,000 Airports and Navaids included (offline). - Save your own user waypoints. - No subscription charges. Please visit our web site for more detail and screen shots of all the program features.

About

Flight Ops

Calculate flight parameters like distance, time, and fuel. Manage aircraft profiles, find alternate airports, and plot routes on a map. Includes a fuel uplift module and SNOWTAM decoding.

Highlights
  • Distance, flight time, and fuel computation
  • Aircraft profile management
  • Alternate airport finder
  • Route plotting on map
  • Airport database search
  • Fuel uplift calculation
  • SNOWTAM decoding
Features
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Main functions: • Distance, flight time and estimated fuel used computation It will be based on the following parameters: - Mach number or TAS - ISA deviation - Distance factor to compensate great circle distance - Manual Wind component (Flight Ops Standard) - Automatic Historical average wind component (Flight Ops Pro) • Aircraft Profiles You can easily create and manage your aircraft profiles, setting the following: - Fuel used depending on distance flown. It can be set for as many distance values as you wish. The more you indicate, the more accurate will be your result! Of course, it can be done for any Mach or TAS - Structural weight limitations - ACN/PCN values In a single tap, you can even share these profiles via Airdrop, email, WhatsApp, Wechat, Dropbox... An example of aircraft profile with full instructions is provided in the app • Alternate airports finder It’s based on the following parameters: - Distance from destination - Minimum runway length - Paved runways or not - Airports of entry or not - Including military airports or not They will be automatically sorted by ascending distance from destination airport • Plotting map On this map you can plot: - Great circle routes between airports - ETP circles based on a specific radius - By a long push on the map you can display all airports around, making easy and fast the selection of ETP airports. As for alternates search, this selection is based on same parameters (see above) • Airports database - You can search in the database and retrieve any airport(s) based on the following parameters: ICAO code, IATA code, airport name or city name - Database can be updated (Flight Ops Pro) • Fuel uplift module You can use your aircraft limitations or use the "Free mode". If you fly different birds, your aircrafts limitations can be stored in the database. Therefore, no need to remember the max fuel weight or volume nor your maximum ramp weight! Based on your aircraft limitations, you can easily compute the fuel quantity required. Just enter desired uplift fuel volume, fuel weight or your desired aircraft ramp weight and Flight Ops will compute other numbers at once! It considers all common units: - Weight: Lbs and Kg - Volume: Liters, US Gal, Imp Gal - Density: Kg/L, Kg/US Gal, Kg/Imp Gal, Lbs/L, Lbs/US Gal, Lbs/Imp Gal You cannot get the fuel density from the fueler? Now you can retrieve it from the fuel temperature and can even select the type of fuel (Jet or Gasoline). • ACN / PCN Based on a PCN number, Flight Ops will decode and display a full description. If you have at least 1 aircraft in your database, it will provide your limitation(s) if any: - Aircraft weight - Main Landing Gear tire pressure - Nose Landing gear tire pressure If you indicate your aircraft weight, Flight Ops will compute your ACN. Of course, all these ACN values can be set through your aircraft profiles. • SNOWTAM decoding (METAR format) Just make a copy paste of any SNOWTAM or simply use the wheel. You will then get: - Full decoding - Wind components based on the related runway • Weather and airports information - You can build your own favorite airports list to check weather status at a glance - For any airport, you can get the latest METAR and/or TAF (if available) - Based on current wind speed and direction, Flight Ops will display all runways with corresponding wind components • Distance calculator To calculate the distance and True bearing between 2 latitudes/longitudes waypoints. • Last Minute Change Based on the Weight & Balance Load Sheet computed for your flight, grab your iPhone/iPad and compute your Last Minute Change data if necessary. Indicate your new payload, adding or removing pax & cargo and update your fuel values if required. Flight Ops will then calculate revised weights and centers of gravity for ZFW, TOW and LDW. Terms of Use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy : https://www.flight-office.com/flightops.pdf

Screenshots

FlyBy Nav4 screens
Flight Ops4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Flight Ops at Free against FlyBy Nav's $0.99. Flight Ops also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (27 vs 2). FlyBy Nav's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Flight Ops is free to download; FlyBy Nav costs $0.99 up front. Flight Ops sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per year. FlyBy Nav asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FlyBy Nav holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flight Ops has 27 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of FlyBy Nav's written reviews are positive against 77% of Flight Ops's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FlyBy Nav ships an update every 3 months, Flight Ops weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
FlyBy Nav versus Flight Ops: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlyBy NavFlight Ops
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.3 (27 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better76.9% of reviews
Number of ratings227 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
Best chart rank#59 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.616.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB274 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLonnie GanzHubert GIRAUD

Customer experience

FlyBy Nav

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Flight Ops

All ratings27 ratings
Positive81.5%
Neutral7.4%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive76.9%
Neutral7.7%
Negative15.4%

In-app purchases

None

FlyBy Nav

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Flight Ops

Subscriptions1
  • Pro$8.991 Year
One-time1
  • Flight Ops Pro$8.99

Questions

Is FlyBy Nav free?
FlyBy Nav costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flight Ops free?
Flight Ops is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FlyBy Nav or Flight Ops?
FlyBy Nav is rated higher. FlyBy Nav averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Flight Ops averages 4.3 from 27 ratings.
Do FlyBy Nav or Flight Ops have ads?
Neither FlyBy Nav nor Flight Ops shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FlyBy Nav or Flight Ops?
FlyBy Nav ships an update every 3 months, and Flight Ops weekly. Most recently, FlyBy Nav was updated on September 11, 2026 and Flight Ops on September 17, 2026.

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