Is there anything going on with Flight Planner improvements? I'm giving up my AOPA membership but will sure miss theirs. Have used it to plan all over the country and found it fast and very useful. This one is very slow, has a dinky screen and is kinda clunky. Maybe Seattle Avionics is the next best option?
This is a dilemma for me too, I dropped AOPA also, fore flight on a iPad is too expensive for the flying I do, most the Garmen stuff has a subscription cost that are too high also.
So what to do ? ?
DUAT Voyager and GoldenEagle Flight Prep have free versions that work pretty well.
I started with aeroplanner when they had a basic one for free for EAA members and upgraded it to their pro version.
I was one of the beta testers on the AOPA one but I got tired of it's poor performance in relationship to aeroplanner.
Ron, which one were you testing? They have had a newer version out for a year or more and an even better version in testing now. I've down loaded Golden Eagle today but am finding it pretty clunky too. But I've just started using it so may get better with practice. The detail graphics and ease of editing is the AOPA planner's stong points. It's so easy to just click on points and add to the route or the new one supports rubber-banding again, like an earlier version.
Thanks for the suggestions, will be trying them all!
Rubber banding is almost never the way I plan things.
It sucks for IFR routing.
Well, I use it a lot. But thanks for sharing....that's real helpful....Originally Posted by FlyingRon
Last edited by flyingriki; 11-21-2011 at 09:53 AM.
I've used AOPA Flight Planner exclusively for IFR planning for 5 years. Works fine for me and I rarely use rubber banding.
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Voyager may work well if you have a Cray supercomputer. my old gateway laptop with 1thinydoodle of memory trying to run Vista just gagged and rolled over when i tried seattle avionics' duat voyager on it.
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Last edited by Mike M; 11-21-2011 at 11:29 AM.
www.fltplan.com
Have used it for 3.5 years now and find it is excellent, for IFR, VFR, USA, Canada & Mexico.
And it has an excellent app for the iPhone.
And it is free.
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