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My wife and I have volunteered to do an Avare booth (#68) at the free AOPA Fly-In at CMA (Camarillo, CA) this evening and tomorrow. Sadly, we have to drive rather than enjoy the spectacular flight from SBA, but at least the parking areas for cars (and for aircraft) are massive. You can add...

I fly with the free open source Avare app (yes I donated) on my cheapo old 1st gen Nexus 7 with backup copies on my two S4 phones. It's so handy, the GNS430 and an old handheld aviation GPS now serve as tertiary backups. Last year I bought a $10 "thumb drive" SDR (DVB-T for Euro TV) on Amazon...

Ground stations can also broadcast with lots of power, directed antenna, and are much closer to your aircraft (inverse square of distance) = less susceptible to interference. Alas, ground station signals can probably still can be spoofed but that's not a disadvantage to satellite and those are...

I only fly commercial when unavoidable, so it's been since 6/2013 but it was fine then. Of course, I wasn't toting an external wifi gps. Mine was an S4 phone with dual-band GPS running the free open source Avare app with all FAA documents loaded. Once they said we could "turn on" I just left it...

I asked the lead developer about this, and since he's not a subscriber here he asked me to post his reply: Anyone with questions about Avare can get quick answers on the Avare Forum or check on the Avare website.

I've used Avare on a 1st gen Nexus 7, Galaxy S4, and Droid X. Even with the GPS on, Avare seems to sleep after a couple of minutes in background. It uses no resources at all when you Exit. In flight, it does tend to use more battery than just keeping the screen on, and of course more still with...

Alas, no. I didn't hear of any other Qs there. Plus the downpour got us diverted to camping at Fond Du Lac and taking the bus, so we missed a lot. Yes, thanks. It was even more fun than we hoped. On a later flight to Quebec I met an owner who was jumping with joy when he saw us taxi in past his...

Will probably happen if someone on the team has one and thinks of a great use for it in Avare. I know Zubair toyed with the idea of interfacing Glass, but I think he decided to wait on that. Excellent! Hope we'll see you on the Avare Forum. :)

Thanks for the followup. It will probably get done before long, but there are many features ahead of it in line.

It's doesn't have a full flight planner yet, but that's one area the development team is working on. I'd like that too. Not a big deal for me, since it's easy enough to just press Find and all the recent airports selected are there at a tap. I agree though that's several inputs. I've put in...

I appreciate all your comments, but that one has me especially excited because I'm hoping it means you might consider contributing some code.

Same here. I didn't think we'd ever get that without a horde of volunteers manually tagging every airport. In fact, the first iteration of geoTaxi required first manually tagging the diagram. Tho it did work, I was happy to see that go. :) I don't recall the details now, but I think it was an...

I haven't used DUATS for years, but doesn't it offer that? If so, it may well be included in the integration with Avare that's in the works. To find out for sure, you could post on the Avare Forum.

My guess is that a rapidly dwindling number of pilots would pay for Jeppesen when all official FAA materials are free on Avare (and maybe other apps?). I'd also guess that most of those who want fee-based apps and materials are using iStuff and already firmly entrenched in one of the few big...

Great question! Zubair actually created a small, free Open Source one named iTimer so it would probably be trivial for him to add it into Avare somehow. I seem to recall having asked him about it at some point, but if a Comanche pilot inquired maybe he'd do it. ;) I keep mine on local time and...

I think that was in the works at one point, but don't know if it's implemented. For my VFR use it would be more helpful to have AGL displayed at the airplane icon, so maybe I'll request that. Don't know the state of plan features. My main contribution to the team is documentation tho, so I'm way...

I don't know the technical aspects, but I think the source is hosted on GitHub now if that's what you mean.

I appreciate you sharing this, because it's something I haven't thought about. I know that recently one of our coding volunteers has taken on integrating DUATS into Avare. There's already some flight planning capability, but I think it's mostly weather and a flight path you can manually create...

You might like Avare for this (I obviously do), but maybe there are other free apps that offer all these materials free? Guess you're talking about vector maps like the Jeppesen on my GNS430? I doubt you'll see that on any free app, because there's no free source of official and current vector...

I guess you've seen the recent addition of supplementary pop-up zoom buttons? Those enable continental-scale zoom out. I don't know if there's anyone currently working on making that an addition to the pinch zoom to eliminate the buttons. I mostly use WAC chart type for zoomed out views, because...