ARINCDirect vs Scott IPC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ARINCDirect
This navigation app provides pilots with real-time access to flight plans, weather data, and airport charts. It offers features like flight plan recomputation, enroute charting, and performance calculations, designed for on-the-go aircraft operations.
- Access flight plans and weather data
- Enroute charting (offline/online)
- Airport diagrams and approach plates
- Flight plan recomputation
- In-app performance calculations
- View flight plan packages
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The ARINCDirect app is a valuable tool to help on-the-go aircraft pilots increase their effectiveness. Using this app, ARINCDirect customers have up-to-the-minute access to their flight plans, weather, packages, and airport charts in an easy-to-use format. PLEASE NOTE: You must have an ARINCDirect login to use this app. With the ARINC Direct app, you get the following features: - Create, Save, Replan and File flight plans - eNAVLOG (Plotting Chart) - View METARs, TAFs, NOTAMs, and winds aloft for departure, arrival, and alternate airports - Access all flight-plan packages - View Runway Analysis, SMS, and APIS PDFs relevant to your trips - Generate new fax packages for current conditions - View airport diagrams, takeoff minimums, instrument approach plates, DPs, and STARs - In-App Weight and Balance and Aircraft Performance calculations - Send annotated flight plans from within app - Worldwide enroute charting, works offline as well as online - Enroute chart overlays for flight plan, radar, weather - Plan ETPs, ETOPS or EDTO alternates Our privacy policy can be found at: https://www.rtx.com/privacy
Scott IPC
This app provides pilots with essential tools for global flight operations, including an electronic plotting chart and a reference handbook. It offers automatic route building, worldwide weather data, and real-time syncing for seamless planning and record-keeping.
- Electronic plotting chart
- International Cockpit Reference Handbook
- Automatic route building
- Global navigational database
- Worldwide METAR/TAF data
- Real-time syncing
- Journey logbook creation
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Scott International Procedures, LLC offers comprehensive International Procedures training and equips business aviation and military pilots with a wide range of resources and tools for seamless global operations. The Scott IPC app provides access to our International Cockpit Reference Handbook® and Scott Plot®, our comprehensive electronic plotting chart solution. Scott Plot is a fully-featured electronic plotting solution that sets the standard for safety, sophistication, and situational awareness. The combination of simplicity of use and depth of functionality enables pilots to easily plot, document, and store all necessary data for their electronic crossings. SCOTT IPC APP CAPABILITIES: - International Cockpit Reference Handbook (ICRH®) access - Automatic route building with support for all major flight plan providers - Global navigational database coverage - Worldwide METAR/TAF data - Supports a wide range of portable GPS devices - Supports Satcom Direct GPS connectivity - Moving map display - Sync between iPads to share and observe plotting data, annotations, and route changes in real-time while guaranteeing redundancy of journey logbook data - Preflight Wizard enables efficient and accurate flight setup - Quick and straightforward flight plan import - Graphical Oceanic Entry and Oceanic Exit point selection - Standard IPC recommended checklist combines best practices of Scott IPC and AC 91-70C - User-customizable checklists available - GNE checks with 5 or 10 min checks & GPS verification - Oceanic flight reminders to encourage best practices enroute - NAT and PAC graphical track depictions with full track details - Automatically build and verify ETPs from a flight plan for maximum situational awareness - GPS failure and recovery stamps to support PBCS investigations - Create a journey logbook that compiles all flight details into one comprehensive document for easy and efficient record-keeping - Optional Scott IPC app portal uploads for seamless journey logbook cloud storage - Effortless journey logbook export to other document storage systems - Dead reckoning support - Dedicated chart layer displays ARINC 424-shorthand waypoints for improved situational awareness - ARINC format converter allows for quick conversion between ARINC and lat/long formats to reduce the risk of GNE - Simple to use aviation conversions calculator - Distance / Speed / Time calculator - Night mode provides chart and document color inversion to reduce eye fatigue when flying at night - Split screen capable, allowing for efficient multitasking on the iPad *PLEASE NOTE: A Scott IPC login and subscription are required to use this app
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Scott IPC at 5.0 against ARINCDirect's 3.8. Scott IPC also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 44%). ARINCDirect's advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Scott IPC holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of ARINCDirect's written reviews are positive against 80% of Scott IPC's.
ARINCDirect ships an update weekly, Scott IPC every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ARINCDirect | Scott IPC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (22 ratings) | 5.0 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 223 MB | 525 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ARINCDirect | Scott IPC |
Customer experience
ARINCDirect
Scott IPC
In-app purchases
ARINCDirect
No in-app purchases
Scott IPC
No in-app purchases







