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A bit late in the game, but if I may, I would highly recommend FlightAssistant. Totally free and great moving map. Web site here, with full documentation. I am the developper, so my view might be biased ;). Jean-Michel

It' s been a little while since I presented you FlightAssistant, a GPS moving map for VFR pilots that rune on Android devices. I had a few comments about the difficulty to get your own maps (in the beta release it was the only solution and it was indeed cumbersome). But things have...

Weight & balance if a bit of a tedious task but one you want to do well. In order to help you, we have added a weight & balance module to FlightAssistant. This module is really flexible and versatile and will allow you to define your plane weight stations and CG limits. It will cater as...

Better managing maps (and their download) is on our TODO, but I must confess we have not found the right way to do it yet (as I would not want to be limited to a geography). Avare does a great job at this indeed... Provided you are a US/Canadian pilot... Granted, most of you guys here are...

You can have a look at FlightAssistant (warning: I am the author). The website : http://www.flightassistant.org/ On Google Play : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droidfa It is probably more basic than the commercial alternatives and requires a bit more of your time to...

FlightAssistant v0.6.0 has been released just in time to reach your Christmas stockings! Quite a few interesting changes around maps in this version: The application can now use online maps (incl. US sectional and WAC) when no local map has been installed. The managements of the objects...

A new version of FlightAssistant has been released today. There are no massive changes, but improvements in flight plan edition. Some users were wondering why it was not possible to reorder the waypoints in a flight plan. This is now possible, as well as being able to revert a flight...

The rasterized maps are made of the usual 256x256 pixels tiles numbered either according to the OpenStreetMap (TMS) convention or the Google Map's one. You can generate them easily from OpenStreetMap sources using Mobile Atlas Creator (check the video tutorial). You guys are lucky, that your...

Looks fairly comprehensive... Do you only cover the US or the rest of us as well (Europe ?) ?

Ok, let's not over-egg the pudding. No disrespect to the ones who are struggling but it is really not that complicated and you should really become comfortable with it after the first round. Use the video tutorials, have a llok at the documentation, I am confident you can do it. In a...

Sorry about that. Any file manager that can unzip will work, you do not have to use ASTRO (it just came with the stock emulator that I use to capture the video). Use one you are used to (ES FileExplorer is another valid choice). Sorry again, but eventually it will work (it worked for...

You need a software called MOBAC (stands for Mobile Atlas Creator). Follow this video to create your map(s) : http://youtu.be/EjUZERlK7rY And then this one http://youtu.be/JuXdIVoOY8w to copy the map(s) and install tehm onto your device. I know this is not ideal and can be too high a...

Thanks for that! Ouch, this is unexpected... How do you call all the aeronautical information "stuff"? Ok, this is a "normal" error if I may say (software developpers in their "evasive maneuvers" to escape users speak about "unexpeted behaviour" instead of "bugs" ;) ). Anyways, the app...

Ok, now you made me blush ;). I assume this is at the stage where you are trying to create flight plan ? Have you subscribed to the AIP data and downloaded it ? In order to get started with the application easily, I suggest you follow the steps described in the "Getting started" video...

Great! Please do give us your feedback, this is always useful.

Ok, this is the trick question... First I need to say I did not start this application because I thought there were flawes in the existing ones or I thought I could do better. I wrote it as a way to get up to speed with software development on the Android platform (there is only so much...

The GPS signal comes either from the embeded GPS (in the phone / tablets) but there are BlueTooth based solutions as well if you have to or want to use external BlueTooth GPS dongle (you will need to use another software, but there are a few). JM

Hi Shorty, I must confess I do not know OruxMap well (only tried it 2 or 3 years ago when I had my first Android phone) but as far as I remember there are no features dedicated to aviation. It just displays you location on the map background. FlightAssistant does more for the pilot, let me...

Hi there, let me first introduce myself. My name is Jean-Michel, I am a French pilot and IT professional. I got both my degree and my licence in 1990 (which tells a bit too much about my age). In my free time, I have developped a moving map GPS application for Android devices (it is free...

Ok, I'll do that (and I think this is actually fair). Thanks, JM