WingX App Reviews

At first I wasnt inclined to subscribe - not because of WingX features, but more because of having read reps that the ipad reflects direct sunlight and tends to overheat. Good thing I didnt listen. The app is fantastic, working as advertised. Just did an IFR round trip KCNO-KRNM-KCNO and I am really impressed! (ipad was subjected to direct sunlight and temps of 90+ F) WingX is intuitive to use and provides all vital information. That in conjunction with a very accurate geo referenced moving map (VFR, IFR low altitude enroute, Stars, Sids, AP safe taxi, whether..). I thoroughly enjoyed the flight with WingX! On a side note.. if you are flying PA28s, dont use a suction cup assembly - the ipad blocks a good part of your outside vision. What works really well with no obstruction of instruments is RAMs yoke mount. I took some pics, but unfortunally am unable to post them here. Anyways, go for it - it really reduces nav workload and improves situational awareness greatly. Of course, you all know that this only can be used as a backup and is not officially to be used as the primary means of navigation. Fly safely everyone, Fabian

I was thoroughly disappointed with software as it has absolutely zero Canadian coverage. No airspace, maps, airports (other than a very few major ones on the border but no info on them). I was even more disappointed with their customer support. After a week not a peep. My recommendation is to save your bucks an purchase the $39.95 Air Nav Pro. Less expensive, better coverage, and certainly better customer service. I really feel as if I wasted $99.

best product out there. too bad nothing like this is available for Canada.....

Whats with the lack of Canadian coverage? Good thing I got a free 30 day trail otherwise I would have felt pretty ripped off. Its not just Canadian pilots asking for Canadian coverage, US pilots fly to Canada by the hundreds each day. This might be a good program for non professional Private pilots who dont travel much. But true professional pilots will want an app that works at all north american airports. Time to get on the ball WingX or its back to ForeFlight for me and a lot of other pilots.

This is brilliant software for the active, knowledgeable pilot: its enjoyable to use, cleverly designed, intuitively ergonomic, and amazingly useful. There is the odd small snag, but Ive found Hilton Software to be quick to address them and keen to improve. Ive gladly switched from mountains of paper charts and approach plates to this nifty piece of programming. I use WingX both on my iPhone and on my iPad, and have even found the iPhone version sufficient for cross-country IFR trips. The route planner is far easier to use than Foreflights, and the split map view is fantastic for switching between enroute charts and approach plates. -R. Rosenkranz, Victoria, BC, Canada

This program costa 99 cents and so you assume some level of usability out of the gate, but the app is completely useless unless you pay for the additional annual subscription which I have intention of doing. So I just paid for a useless app. Thanks a lot. Claick bait!

I do like this app but it could be much better. The fact that they give CFIs a free subscription cant be beat. Very smart on their behalf. The user interface needs a makeover for 21st century human factors. The sectional is very cluttered at the default settings. Right out of the box many annoying features must be disabled to make the sectional user friendly for a pilot. It certainly seems it was designed for people who are not pilots or cannot read sectionals. For example, "Heading Ind," a gigantic annoying compass rose, VORs, state borders, etc, etc, all must be disabled in the settings before I use the app. All this data is right there on the sectional already and is just clutter overlaid by the app. A note to the developers: please, please, please for the love of God make there a way to disable those annoying airport labels on the sectional. Also, as stated below, the ability to selectively download individual sectionals as well as terrain data for the synthetic vision (which cannot be used without an external AHRS, anyway) should be features added in the next update.

The downloads are unnecessarily large. Absolutely need to be able to select which sectionals to download instead of having to download the entire US and having it consume your devices storage.

I have been using this app for more than five years and know it well, many of my fellow pilots show me Foreflight and I show them features that I would not fly without. The biggest is the split screen, I can have my sectional or ifr chart on one screen and an approach plate on the other with geo reference of my plane on both. If you fly ifr, is is the best app out there. Download it and give it a try. You will love it.

Theres a lot of options in the EFB space these days, but for me, WingX is the clear leader when it comes to introducing innovative new features. It also continues to have the best interface for actual in-cockpit use. If you are VFR only, the WingX basic subscription includes many features Brand F and Brand G reserve for their premium subscriptions making WingX great value to boot.

Used them all but keep coming back to WingX - even better now with the Replay feature. There were first SV, split screen, ZAON and ADSB traffic support, geo ref taxi diagrams as part of the base price, none of this basis versus pro nonsense, just great features for one low price. 100% recommend this - dont drink the kool-aid the others try and make you drink !! Update 8/4/16 - WingX supports a LOT of ADB-S in solutions, including the home built Stratux. Why pay more for the same features on other apps when ALL FEATURES are included in the one price

Does so many things VFR and IFR, lots of handy, functional little shortcuts to make it easier to use in realtime. The only suggestion Id have to add would be to overlay sigmets/convective sigmets/airmets over the chart in real time. That would be a lot easier than flipping between this and skyvector.

Ive been using the app for 6 months now and love it and certainly wouldnt be without it. But it would be nice if the constant improvements didnt sometimes kill functionality. Recently I had a problem (now fixed) where my own location wouldnt appear - very disconcerting. And now in the latest version, its no longer calculating fuel and time usage, even with the parameters entered. Update - I just worked out the issue. The new version, 8.6.9 calculates times based on altitude. If the altitude you enter doesnt make sense (I had 1,000 feet when the elevation was higher), it wont calculate it. Remove the altitude, as for the no wind case, and it works fine.

I took a four year hiates from flying and got back into it again last year. I had the best of avionics including a Garman 430. This program is really better in many respects and Only requires an iPad and a GPS transmitter. Im only flying vfr now but could not have done the flights I have done in the busy northeast corrider weaving my way around different air spaces. Its a great GPS and has many many other functions that I dont really use. I Love this program. thank you

I’ve used WingX for several iterations and it has consistently exceeded my expectations. Integration with a number of third party hardware solutions rather than bolting you to a single ADS-B/AHRS system was crucial for me. I’ve used WingX with my Sagetech Clarity SV and have done numerous dog rescues for Pilots N Paws. Once I had a complete electrical outage on my panel. With my backup handheld radio and WingX on my yoke, I was actually quite comfortable navigating to my home airport. I as well as the dogs I rescue are safer because of the situational awareness as well as the knowledge that the charts and airport information is the best and most recent possible. From my observation, Hilton Software seems to be on the cutting edge. Other aviation packages seem to magically come up with new stuff after WingX has had it in the field for several months. I remember when WingX was the only major aviation app that had ’track up’. I was using another app concurrently, and emailed that developer about a track up feature and was told that it wasn’t something that they felt was desired by their customers.. Fast-Forward about a year and guess what. That app made track up a feature and tried to make it look like they were first to come up with the idea when in fact, WingX had that for ages. Thanks Hilton Software for daring to be edgy enough to be innovative while in such a demanding market knowing full well that competitors will take your ideas and spin them as if they came up with it all on their own.

Version 8 is a much needed improvement. Very clean and polished UI for iOS 7. Love the pebble integration, pebble steel and WingX pro is a match made in heaven!!!

Beats the competition hands down.

Raise the roof!

WingX Pro7 presents all of the information I need when flying IFR or VFR, and does so without being a distraction. The latest version made entry of DPs, STARs, and IAPs to a route even quicker, simplifying the management of ATC reroutes while in flight, or even in the flight planning process. With WingX Pro7’s ability to work with nearly any ADS-B receiver (I use the Dual XGPS170), and so many other systems (Aspen, Clarity, ZAON, NavWorx, etc.), I find WingX Pro7 to be the most comprehensive EFB available for iOS.

Dont have time for all the sign ups and downloads. Staying with ForeFlight.