What do pilots value in apps? The chart and comments at right provide a basic road map on how users evaluate what apps do and how they do it. The data was gathered from a survey returned by 984 users queried through our online sister publication, www.avweb.com.
In the July 2020 edition of Aviation Consumer, we reported on the hardware side of the equation and in this report, we’ll rank the applications based on reader responses. In the interests of sanity, we’re examining only the top five navigation and planning apps by market share.