If the app market hasn’t quite reached stasis, it must be close to that. Our recent surveys suggest that only about 11 percent of pilots don’t fly with tablets or apps of any kind and that doesn’t leave much headroom for new entrants or for expansion of established players. So, buyers may be shifting from one app to another in search of something better or just different.
Two apps that we missed in our survey in last month’s issue are iFly GPS and an Android freebie called Avare. Both of these drew quite a few survey comments and thumps for us for missing them. (It’s an established rule of editorial surveys that at least something has to be overlooked.)