7 best aviation apps

With this app, you can turn your smartphone or tablet into an air traffic radar. Much like Uber, which shows cabs on a map and where all of them are in real time, this app shows you where all the flights are. You can pick any location in the world and see what planes are flying there. In the paid version of the app, you can save your favourite locations and receive notifications about flights too.

2. E6B+

This app lets you do basic conversions like Celsius to Fahrenheit, Statute miles to Nautical miles, Inches of Hg to Milibars, etc. You can also calculate wind speed and direction, true airspeed, runway crosswinds, fuel consumption, heat index, density altitude, and other calculations useful for flying. This is a must have app for aviators.

3. Metar Weather Map

The app will give you information about over 4,000 airports in the world. All you have to do is type the name of the airport in the search bar. The app will then give you the basic weather information about it like wind, temperature and visibility, runaway visual range, etc. Other than this, it also gives you various forecasts and information like weather history, arrivals and departures et al.

4. Smart Logbook

If you are a pilot, your logbook is more than a list of flights for you and this app will help you maintain the number of hours you have spent flying. You can add what aircraft you flew in, the route you took, the date of departure and arrival, the duration of the flight and more. What makes it more useful is that the information you add gets synced online, so you don’t lose your logbook even if you lose your phone.

A very simple, yet useful app that lets you calculate crosswind, drifts, descent by distance, lead turns and visual descent point. It’s more of a time saver than a necessity.

With this app, you don’t have to worry about forgetting any task. As a pilot, there are endless things that you have to do when you are flying, and forgetting even one thing may be fatal. That is where an app like this helps you. It comes preloaded with checklists like interior inspection, exterior inspection, start engine, taxi, and aircraft info, which leaves no room for you to not remember anything. You can even add or remove lists to the pre-existing list of sections.

This app is a must have for all pilots. After adding some essential information, it lets you record your entire flight and then retrieve the data from CloudAhoy servers after the flight is over. So you can literally relive your entire flight. The app also lets you watch the taken flight path it in 3D mode.