WingX App Reviews

Garmin, foreflight. Hmmmm

I have been using WXP for several years to support me flying both VFR and hard IFR and I am very happy with it. Hilton SW is very supporting when needed and they do take pilots suggestions serious. Overall a great product!

I have been using WingX for two years and find it to be excellent when it works. Unfortunately, it suffers (as does Foreflight) from the Apple bluetooth bug which causes it to occasionally lose connection with my Dual external gps, rendering the moving map useless. On a recent ifr flight, 30 minutes before landing, I got the 10% battery life warning, shut down the iPad until just before landing, and turned it back on only to find that it was unable to connect to the gps (which was working fine with lots of satellites and 66% battery left). I used my iPhone (held by my wife) for the remainder of the flight. In my opinion, they made a very bad programming decision to only invoke the "Auto APD" (automatically display the apt diagram when landing) with a chart in place. On another ifr flight in vfr conditions, I landed at an apt with a very confusing set of taxiways and almost had a runway incursion due to the apt diagram not displaying. I cant imagine a situation where one wouldnt want to see the apt diagram after landing. (At least, there should be an option to always show the airport diagram). This app suffers from very marginal support -- I have made numerous phone calls and sent many emails without any response from the company. On my one recent successful interaction with them, they said that my email was mistakenly put into the trash (as was my recent phone call, apparently). It would also be nice if they had a more complete user manual (Foreflight shines in both of there areas). For these reasons, together with the extreme difficulty in using the iPad display in bright sunlight, I have chosen to return to my former policy over the last 30 years and use paper charts.

Thanks for the update, any chance we can adjust the altimeter setting in the next release? iLevil AW pressure altitude comes at 29.92 inHg..

This app is a total ripoff. You obviously get what you pay for. Doesnt do anything promised and its laggy! Go buy AirTrack. Its the real deal.

Great program. Use it on every flight. Would like to see the weight & balance back.

I dont have kccb diagram here, app is fine but it should be improved.

Excellent nav and traffic display in my experience. I just installed the FreeFlight UAT transceiver, so now have ADS-B Out/In in my Bonanza. Was not certain if the new device would work as the previous In only devices did with the app, but was very pleased to find full traffic overlaid on the moving map, displaying other aircraft with range, speed, altitude, and some trend info. Have not worked with the weather yet. Have not had any issues with the app lagging - I am using a 64 gb iPad mini with retina, so it has the faster processor. After getting some weather experience, will update, but am very impressed so far.

I am a veteran commercial pilot, 30 yrs flying, all kinds of airplanes. This app does everything a flying app should do. Split screen mode is fantastic, and unique. Was one of the first to allow ADS-B integration. Annual cost is very reasonable for full IFR coverage. I tried the others, Fore flight, Garmin and Jepp - but this one was and is the best. Dont leave the ground without it...

Ive flown with WingX for two years now, and renewed with a 3 year subscription. This company cares about getting it right, and about what is useful for pilots. I preplan routes and save them for the right time to cruise that territory. I added a "Home" waypoint near my home field to facilitate round robin routes. "Home" is then the last waypoint to which I return, and then enter the traffic pattern. Runway extensions are a real help when going into a strange field. Route information aids setting radio frequencies ahead of time. The 4nm borders around the line of flight are helpful in setting up for the downwind leg. All in all, I wouldnt want to return to paper charts. Thanks, Hilton. Jack Voss Pilot of the Ruptured Duck

I am a very serious IFR ATP aircraft owner, and this app has proven to be a great resource to add to my on-board GNS 530 and Garmin 496. The latest version has what I consider to be the "must-have" feature for serious GPS IFR navigation--the "4NM buffer" feature: This way you can quickly scan 4NM either side of the direct course centerline and determine the highest obstacle or terrainnot within that 8nm width and give that to the pilot to be able determine the FAA mandated lowest safe minimum off-airway altitude for that direct GPS course. This feature is fantastic! I keep it displayed as an option on my sectional view, and enroute, with the unique split-view of my low altitude enroute IFR charts, gives unparalleled situational awareness and safety. Great product...I have compared both it and Foreflight side-by-side and this app, in my opinion is the best at this time.

Downloaded this new version last night and it corrupted my WingX Pro version 8.0. Selecting "settings" and the "find" buttons on the map page kicked me completely out of WXP. Selecting any of the bottom row buttons on the Route Planning screen did the same. I am using an iPad3 with IOS version 7. Had to delete the app and start over. Suggest you think about this possibility when considering this latest update. I went through this same scenario for years with the AnyWhere Map system. I stopped updating my iPaq until others posted the "all clear" for the posted update. Hope this doesnt become the case with WXP. 11/9/14 update: Reinstalled the new revision and had the same problems. Double checked my IOS version and it was actually 6.1.3.....just too many revisions to keep up with! In any case, per Hiltons warning regarding issues with IOS 6, believe it and wait for their upcoming fix. Still love this software!

I should have read other reviews before I updated. Never had a problem before, but I cant touch but a few buttons on the map screen else WinX Pro crashes. It is currently totally unusable. Great app, lucky I also have Foreflight which is good for different things like the world map.

Very disappointed with the frequency and extent of updates as compared to the competition. WingX was the best at one time but theyve consistently fallen further behind.

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.

ForeFlight gets all the love but WingX is still the best. Split screen is nice, easy to get to most functions, and I think its the only one with georeferenced taxiing. One star removed because their website is a mess, its nearly impossible to find what you get for what price level. And I wish they would go to a la carte pricing...I dont fly IFR and dont need approach plates.

Update: since they recently added regular notams, this app is perfectly usable both for planning and in the air. As far as SV, there are no mountains around here, but I thought the SV would help in finding an airport or runway if the windshield became frosted over or covered in oil. I figured since I had the ipad anyway, the $100 was cheap if I needed it. I also bought the $795 Levil mini G AHRS figuring it would be a backup to the attitude indicator and turn coordinator if both went out in IMC (works OK with an app called ihud). What they offer is nothing near synthetic vision that any of us have seen - albeit anything else is a whole lot more money. I was hoping to get something close to the SV in the Garmin 796. Basically, if you are near the ground the ground will turn an orangish brown or red, depending on how low you are. If there are lighted towers, most seem to appear as little black sticks on the green background. Unlighted towers dont seem to appear. Some sticks were there where there were no towers that I could see. Flying directly at or next to a 2000 foot tower at 1500 feet just showed me a black line on a green background, not something that was about to kill me. Runways also look like little black sticks. There is no way to see the difference, except a runway may not be standing straight up.. It didnt have all the runways for the airports I was looking at in the air (Midway showed 2 runways, and there are MANY runways there), and there is no way I could spot a runway and line up with it. Even on final there was no way to see the runway in-front of me, which looked like a black stick for a tower. More useful for avoiding mountains? If you want to blow $100 to see if it will help you from hitting them, Id suggest NOT buying the $795 AHRS unit. I dont think its useful with WINGX. I sold the one I bought. The rest of the program works OK. Clunkier to use than foreflight, and slower to update the screen, but OK. The weather in WingX isnt as slick as foreflight. The Baron radar aint very good. Support is pretty bad to non-existent. They never answered my email with questions about the SV. I didnt get a phone call until maybe 5 days later, after I left a voicemail. The support guy said they were all out of town. I couldnt download updates one day and left a message (they all timed out), and when they called back a day later they said they were upgrading their servers. All in all they dont seem to think much of their customers. Ill probably continue to subscribe to the basic version for $75 in the future as a backup for foreflight. And since I got burned on their "SV" I doubt Ill be tempted to try anything else from them that they come out with in the future. The support guy that did call me back told me that their SV wasnt for runways. I didnt see anything saying that on their website, and I saw press releases specifically saying it showed runways. The $100 SV was just throwing $100 in the garbage. Live and learn.

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 !!

The other ones may have some additional bells but this app has up to date TFR data displayed where the others did not meet my expectations. Wingx data storage requirements are much smaller, faster and more inclusive than the other I tried. I would like Wingx to bring back the flight planning function. The W&B would also be nice to bring back.

Best copilot you could ask for.