iPreFlight3 vs Falcon eDispatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iPreFlight3
This app helps pilots quickly calculate available payload and fuel for flights. It integrates runway analysis, weight and balance, and flight planning with weather data. Users can prepare flight books and releases, and share them with crew.
- Max Payload Estimator (MPE™)
- Runway Analysis (RWA)
- Weight and Balance (WB)
- Flight Planning with Fuel Calculation
- Flight Book preparation
- Flight Release generation and sharing
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Aircraft Performance Group (APG) has released an application for use on the iPad, which integrates their Runway Analysis (RWA) and Weight and Balance (WB) system with a flight planning module. The combination of these functions allows the user to easily and quickly calculate the available payload for a planned flight – this service is known as MPE™ (Max Payload Estimator). iPreFlight™, has been developed to run on the iPad using the latest iPad technology. iPreFlight™ is a first-of-a-kind product that requires minimum user input to quickly calculate the available payload for a given city pairing, considering takeoff/landing performance limitations, manufacturers WB requirements and flight planning constraints. The flight planning element utilizes manufacturer’s operational data, in conjunction with current forecast weather conditions to calculate the fuel required for the flight. The fuel calculation includes fuel burn (optimized for minimum fuel or time), reserve, alternate and holding fuel. In addition to including the RWA, WB and flight plan, iPreFlight™ allows the user to prepare a Flight Book, containing all textual and graphical weather products for the planned flight. The book may be prepared days in advance of the flight, stored on the iPad and can be automatically updated as products are revised. Approaching departure time the user can easily prepare a Flight Release, consolidating the RWA, WB, flight plan and weather products. The Flight Release may then be emailed, stored on the iPad and/or shared with another iPad, such as the other fight deck crewmembers’, by simply selecting the appropriate distribution method(s). iPreFlight consolidates several preflight functions into one program, not only ensuring accurate takeoff and landing performance limits and correct aircraft loading, but allows pilots to quickly calculate the available payload and fuel requirements for a flight. In addition, iPreflight™ allows pilots to make last minute adjustments with just a few keystrokes. The Flight Release may then be saved on the iPad for review in-flight and shared with the other crewmember, Application Requirements: To use this application you must be an existing APG customer having a Runway Analysis (Point Calculation) and Weight and Balance services account.
Falcon eDispatch
This application provides dispatch conditions based on fault and CAS messages, referencing aircraft configuration, MMEL source, and mission context. It supports F7X/F8X and F6X aircraft.
- Gathers dispatch documentation
- Provides dispatch conditions
- Uses Fault and CAS messages
- Considers aircraft configuration
- References MMEL source (EASA/FAA)
- Analyzes mission context
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The eDispatch application gathers all the Dassault dispatch documentation, and quickly provides the dispatch conditions based on the Fault and CAS messages. The eDispatch application provides information in accordance with: o The configuration of the aircraft, o The MMEL source (EASA or FAA), o The context of the mission. Support F7X/F8X and F6X aircrafts
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Falcon eDispatch at 5.0 against iPreFlight3's 3.1. Falcon eDispatch also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). iPreFlight3's advantage is ratings volume (55 vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Falcon eDispatch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iPreFlight3 has 55 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
iPreFlight3 ships an update every 6 weeks, Falcon eDispatch every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iPreFlight3 | Falcon eDispatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (55 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 5.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 128 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aircraft Performance Group, LLC | Dassault Aviation |
Customer experience
iPreFlight3
Falcon eDispatch
In-app purchases
iPreFlight3
No in-app purchases
Falcon eDispatch
No in-app purchases
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