Comparison

Flightscape eFlight Manager vs Airplane Virtual Tour

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

Head to head
About

Flightscape eFlight Manager

This app automates flight planning by ingesting data from your flight planning system. It generates comprehensive trip packages with weather information and allows flight crews to upload real-time flight data for analysis.

Highlights
  • ARINC 633-2 flight plan ingestion
  • Automated pre-flight briefing packages
  • Real-time fuel and flight time capture
  • Offline flight recalculations
  • Scratchpad for notes and drawings
  • Device data synchronization
Features
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Flightscape eFlight Manager is a Flight Plan Manager add-on to expand the connected flight to the cockpit. The application automates the process of collecting all the information for your trip by ingesting flight plans from your flight planning system of choice. A comprehensive and complete package is then generated containing all the latest information required for a trip such as MET, NOTAM, Upper Wind and Temperature / Significant Weather charts and documentation. As well as being a system for delivering data for a trip, eFlight Manager has the ability to capture information from the flight crew. Information such as fuel records, actual flight times, and actual Fuel On board (FOB) are uploaded to the ground server for immediate analysis and reporting. Major features include: - ARINC 633-2 flight plan ingestion. Pre-flight Briefing: - METAR data with green, amber, red coloring based on configurable minima. - TAF for each airfield. - NOTAM for each airfield. - SNOWTAM for each airfield. - Update facility to receive the latest data for your trip. - FIR NOTAM, ASHTAM and SIGMETS. - Operational notices. - PDF Briefing Package. - Flight Recalculation - Sign Off. Trip: - Flight Summary showing weight and fuel information with offline recalculations. - Delay records. - Trip Log for capturing actual flight times, fuel on board, etc. Scratch Pad - Captures text notes. - Captures drawings. Device Sync - Allows crews to “push” or “share” the data that has been entered into eFM from their device to another device

About

Airplane Virtual Tour

Features
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Airplane Virtual Tour provides on-demand access to external and internal imagery of an aircraft using - High-quality photos/3D renderings - 360 panoramic views - Hot spots - Component Locator Modules (CLMs). The Airplane Virtual Tour offers Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) customers an immersive, virtual aircraft experience for enhanced learning by augmenting tours with relevant information. The goal of this tool is to aid instruction, learning, and improving users' contextual understanding and comprehension of the aircraft.

Verdict

The call

Flightscape eFlight Manager and Airplane Virtual Tour are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Flightscape eFlight Manager versus Airplane Virtual Tour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlightscape eFlight ManagerAirplane Virtual Tour
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size138 MB113 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCAE Inc.The Boeing Company

In-app purchases

None

Flightscape eFlight Manager

No in-app purchases

None

Airplane Virtual Tour

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flightscape eFlight Manager free?
Flightscape eFlight Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Airplane Virtual Tour free?
Airplane Virtual Tour is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Flightscape eFlight Manager or Airplane Virtual Tour have ads?
Neither Flightscape eFlight Manager nor Airplane Virtual Tour shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flightscape eFlight Manager or Airplane Virtual Tour?
Flightscape eFlight Manager ships an update every 3 months, and Airplane Virtual Tour every 3 months. Most recently, Flightscape eFlight Manager was updated on October 23, 2026 and Airplane Virtual Tour on October 25, 2026.

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