Kent: The plates are in the little airport symbol, top right.
Can't get that to work. Even after rebooting the iPad, when I tap the airport symbol, I can count one... two... CRASH. Every single time. Fail.
RADAR WX overlaid on charts. Nice.
Honestly, when I took my first look at the Great Lakes region today with that turned on, I didn't see any weather. Then when I flipped it over to the brown basemap, I saw that there was snow over Lake Michigan and Lake Superior and light rain over near the appalachians. It blends into the sectional WAY too well.
ETE/ETA seems to be available on that little slider thingy along the course/timeline.
What I like is the ability to pull up METARs and airport info for airports along a route of flight with the slider. I've got mine set with three widgets on the bottom right now, METAR, Airports->Freq, and Airports->Runways. On a long flight, though, it's kind of hard to get it to select a particular airport as they're all too close together on the slider. What would be really cool is if it would use your location to "zoom" the bar a little bit, so that it would be easier to select the airports closest to you. Say, for example, that roughly 1/3 of the bar would be used to select the 15-20 nearest airports, and the rest could be put into the rest of the bar proportionally.
Split screen view thing is nice, but still not done quite right. Want to pull up A/FD data while not fully "leaving" the flying/map screen in-flight.
You can get some with the Airports widget.
U.S. Surface Analysis maps seem to have been forgotten in WX screen. Canada is there. Ha.
Oops!
The Weather overlay setting is wicked cool. Wind barbs on the chart, or sky coverage, or whatever you like. Nothing even close to that in FF. AIRMET data overlaid is neat-o too.
I still think this is kind of a gimmick. When you're looking at weather data like this, generally you are on a "big picture" view, where the chart is useless and can only serve to confuse (see my comments on radar above). FF lets you have maps of all that data, but it's on an easy-to-read white basemap with enough detail that you can still tell where you're looking at and where the weather is, while not masking things - The weather data is very clear on FF.
The wind barbs, etc. I have no complaint with, they're easily distinguishable from the rest. But still, the chart is zoomed out so far when I'm looking at the weather that it's basically useless. If you're looking at an area that doesn't have distinguishing features (such as the great lakes, large cities, the Rockies, etc) it's more difficult to see exactly where things are than it is with a plain basemap.
PIREP depiction on charts is WICKED cool! They nailed that one. Graphic for what kind of weather/etc, poke at it and read the PIREP right on the chart.
That's fairly well done, until you zoom in - The PIREP symbols actually seem to get smaller when you zoom in?!? I zoomed in on one to see where exactly the report was, and the symbol pretty much disappeared in amongst all the obstruction symbols.
This thing seems to have a lot going for it. I'm curious which important features you think it's missing Kent vs Foreflight.
Downloadable sectional and enroute charts. That's why I got ForeFlight to begin with. PMC is pulling them off the internet as I view them, so it's worthless in flight.
It's also super-crashy, and much slower than ForeFlight. I'm spending a lot of time waiting for it to respond to touches. Bad UX.
The A/FD seems to rival Foreflight or be equal, including fuel prices.
Except that I have only been able to get it to work ONCE for more than two seconds before crashing.
Filing flight plans looks similar, but you have to choose your DUATS(S) provider and probably don't get the fancy e-mail confirmations from Foreflight's servers. I like that service they do. The Flight Planning NavLog is way nicer than FF. If they would put a Print button on that screen, it'd be great.
Nav log? Where?
Must be under that pesky Airport screen?
That's my only other gripe is that they try to do too much with very small icons that have no text so it's not nearly as easy to use.
On the plus side, I can save wear and tear on my home button by just going to the airports tab and waiting a couple of seconds for the crash.
