WingX App Reviews

This is the absolute best planning and navigation software out there. As an Army aviator I have used this for years and it has never failed me. This software is so great that our battalion commander stated in a briefing "I will never fly in the clouds without it."

If you update to this version you will no longer be able to upload your flight to your Avconnect account. Not liking it, I used Avconnect to track all my maintenance, ADs & SB as well as my logbook. 03/10/2015 update Avconnect logging still missing in the newest version...

Just wanted you to know that your routing improvement is outstanding! Being able to include your entire route, including DPs, STARs, and IAPs, seamlessly and easily into the flight plan, is one of the best features WingX Pro has to offer. The folks at Hilton Software are clearly pilots with an excellent understanding of the needs of the IFR community, and were able to incorporate these needs using a very user-friendly interface. A big THANK YOU to your company.

I just returned home from a Florida - Santa Fe - Florida trip. I have WingX Pro7 on my iPad and my iPhone 6+. Your product performed flawlessly! I wouldn’t go anywhere now without it. It makes navigating so easy that I fear that my VOR, NDB, and DR skills will atrophy! And having weather displayed (via Clarity) was invaluable, as there has been a lot of weather in the southern US the past two weeks. Thanks for a great product from a happy customer.

I got ready to fly a couple of weeks ago, I updated the databases in the software, boom DFW terminal chart gone? So it being Saturday I called support, left message... They called me back Monday and said, ohh we are changing the way it works, so we removed them. Ok, so where do I get it now? Uhh terminal charts will be back in next update.... When is that. Uhh soon... So today I get ready to fly, and the weather is 4 hours old.... It wont update to newer... I once again check the website, no mention of outage. I left message again for support.

I have been using this app for over three years. I purchased it after using foreflight and several others on a trial basis. This app has it all! And, they are constantly adding new features. Jim at customer service is knowledgeable and helpful. I highly recommend this app.

The newest version has an has made my Clarity ADS-B Box no longer functional. It says the battery is zero (not correct) and no longer loads radar. Wing X is my favorite APP but this version has some issues. I have tried to email Wing X customer service and never receive a reply. Please fix this issue. I would like to use my ADS-B box again.

I take time to compare things that I purchase, especially if the are of substantial or ongoing cost, such as an EFB is. I want to select WingX Pro because of the totality of features but there are two glaring issues: 1.) No electronic users guide. Consider, every instrument in the cockpit has a guide for its use that can be found in the POH or AFM. You can store both of them on your EFB and that becomes very useful if you have to reference it in flight. If you use an EFB and need to reference the users guide in flight for some frequently unused feature or perhaps because you do not fly often enough to remember the intricacies of the EFB, it is better to have a users guide to reference in flight. When newer versions of the EFB are released, the learning curve goes back up again. Being able to check your EFB Users Guide while flying and study it when not flying is the best way become proficient in the EFB. Access to the Internet, watching videos to find what you are looking for and trying to determine which video to watch are not things to be doing, single pilot, while flying. 2.) When WingX Pro displays the sectional, everything is fine while flying due north or if you are using the North up orientation but as soon as you use track or north up and the map rotates from true north, confusion ensues. If you fly with a glass cockpit, with a MFD, this might not be a problem but if you fly with a six-pack, or you use your EFB as a way to confirm what is on your MFD, the time wasted looking down, mentally orienting the sectional (physically turning the EFB) so that you can read information on the WingX Pro sectional, you might find yourself spending an inordinate amount of time looking down, not out. In a pattern or busy terminal area, this is dangerous. I believe the FAA should mandate, similar to POH and AFM requirements, all portable avionics in the cockpit have either a paper manual or an electronic manual in textual/pictorial form and absolutely NO videos, like most other EFB programs. I am NOT saying the instructional videos are not useful. In fact, they are very much so. But I do not want to have to take the time to watch a video when I can thumb through an active PDF to find relevant information. My 3 star rating reflects the importance I place on the two issues. If they were satisfactorily addressed, I would be giving 5 stars.

New update-radar takes a very long time to load compared to before.

I recently had to buy a new Skyradar D2 unit because the old D units GPS failed. All the ADS-B functions still work on the old. I use WingXPro with the SkyRadar, and the A/C is 2020 compliant ADS-B out. All things were good until the D units GPS failed. I got all the traffic possible and all the NEXRAD etc. With the D2, I get no 978 traffic. Alexey, the developer of SkyRadar, says WingxPro needs to do an update. They should be decoding messages 30 and 31 for the traffic. Instead, they are using an outdated message that he removed some time after I bought my original D unit. I can run the two units side by side and alternately connect old or new to WingxPro. The old shows traffic, the new does not. Both old and new show traffic on the SkyRadar ipad app, but I would rather use WingxPro.

This is a neat program but I am having one issue that I cant seem to get resolved. The nexrad weather and text weather load instantly when connected to wifi, but with ADS-B they load so slowly that it is basically unusable. Imnot sure whether or not the problem is the app or some connectability setting. Ive written two emails and a week later I have yet to hear back. Until I can figure out what the problem is, this app is unuseable for me. With this sorted out, it would be a great app!

You guys just keep making this better! I love the black box feature that records the entire flight. Keep doing what youre doing!

Amazing App that includes pretty much everything you need for pre-flight planning, in-flight nav and info, and post-flight analysis. Very easy to use, keep up the great work!

What a fabulous source of information to enhance safety of flight. Training will never be the same- love it!

It’s hard to overstate what a great application this is. The moving map… awesome. Reliability… awesome. Ease of getting information on, say, airports while inflight and making adjustments to the mission “on the fly”… awesome. Seamless integration with my Dual GPS or wifi… awesome. Seriously. That said, there are some elements I wish were better. For example, the learning curve is steep and the documentation is disjointed, much of it referencing outmoded interfaces. Part of the learning curve issue, I think, is that the user interface is not always intuitive. I often find myself asking, hmm… where did I find that last time? Once you get it though, wow. The second, perhaps bigger reason for deducting one star: flight planning is adequate. There are far better tools available, for free, online that what WingX provides for flight planning.This is more a statement on the state of flight planning tools than on WingX’s competence in that area. I’m disappointed to have to continue to use external apps for that reason, but in a pinch, WingX will do the job.

Overall its pretty good. Would like to see terminal area charts and helicopter route charts.

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

Garmin and foreflight are easy to figure out but with wingx pro you have to mess around with it for awhile to even start the 30 day free trial.

As a CFI and professional instructor who has recently taken advantage of your free offer, I want to say thank you! Since downloading your app, I have had the opportunity to take a week-long cross-country trip and use your software. I am amazed at the functionality and user-friendly nature of the app. Its usefulness is without peer.

You cant even test drive it