AC vs Flight Ops
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AC
Access comprehensive data for business aviation, including airports, FBOs, and service providers worldwide or in North America. Detailed airport diagrams and listings for ground transportation, maintenance, and catering are included. Requires a valid subscription and login credentials.
- Airport and FBO data
- Global and North American coverage
- Service provider listings
- Ground transportation
- Maintenance providers
- Catering companies
- Airport diagrams
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The app is now compatible with iOS 12. AC-U-KWIK® is the leading provider of precise and up-to-date airport, FBO, handler and other services data for the business aviation industry. With your AC-U-KWIK® Worldwide subscription, you’ll be able to capture in-depth data on: 8500+ International and North American airports 13,500 global handlers, FBOs and fuel providers In addition to extensive listings of ground transportation, maintenance providers, catering companies and charter operators. Detailed Airport Diagrams of service provider locations With your AC-U-KWIK® NORTH AMERICAN subscription, you’ll be able to capture in-depth data on: 4000+ North American airports 3900+ North American FBOS and fuel providers In addition to extensive listings of ground transportation, maintenance providers, catering companies and charter operators. Detailed Airport Diagrams of service provider locations. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The AC-U-KWIK application is intended for pre-flight purposes only and may not be used for purposes of en route navigation. Neither AC-U-KWIK nor Informa Markets, a trading division of Informa PLC. or any of its affiliates makes any representation or warranty that the Product, or any related data or information, complies with FAA or any other applicable regulations governing publications for use in connection with flight navigation. Note: You must have a valid AC-U-KWIK username and password in order to activate this application.
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.
- Distance, flight time, and fuel computation
- Aircraft profile management
- Alternate airport finder
- Route plotting on map
- Airport database search
- Fuel uplift calculation
- SNOWTAM decoding
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Flight Ops at 77% against AC's 0%. Flight Ops also leads on rating (4.3 vs 1.5) and ads (none vs shown). AC's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume and monetization model 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. Flight Ops sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per year. AC asks for nothing beyond the download.
Flight Ops holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 27 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of AC's written reviews are positive against 77% of Flight Ops's.
AC ships an update every 4 months, Flight Ops weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AC | Flight Ops |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (13 ratings) | 4.3 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 76.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 274 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Informa Media | Hubert GIRAUD |
Customer experience
AC
Flight Ops
In-app purchases
AC
No in-app purchases
Flight Ops
- Pro$8.991 Year
- Flight Ops Pro$8.99








