![]() ![]() “I probably don’t have many compared to some folks,” he said. “That one’s just for fun,” he said.Īnother corporate pilot told us his list of aviation apps includes AeroWeather, AOPA Airports, Checklist, two flight tracking apps–Flight Track and FlightAware–and LiveATC. Geoff Green, a Falcon 900 captain, said he uses AeroWeather, AOPA’s Airports Directory, the electronic logbook app LogTen and LiveATC (which lets him listen to ATC broadcasts at airports around the world). I wish they’d come out with an app that would actually let me do flight planning.” Derbyshire flies a Falcon 50 domestically and said he uses the Web site on his PC for all of his flight planning needs. Derbyshire said he also uses an app from to look up airport information. “This is a great one he said, tapping on the phone’s screen as he demonstrated how the application works. There was AeroWeather, a free application that provides Metar and TAF reports for any airport where reporting is available. But with a little persistence we were able to track down aviation types using their iPhones and get some answers.īilly Derbyshire, chief pilot for Avitat Boca Raton in South Florida, showed us the apps on his phone that he says he uses most. Some iPhone users told us they had no aviation apps on their devices because they weren’t pilots. As it turned out, a lot of attendees were talking on cellphones and typing on BlackBerrys, but hardly any of them were using iPhones–perhaps because many corporate IT departments forbid their use, citing security risks. NBAA Convention News set out yesterday afternoon to find out from iPhone users in the exhibit hall which aviation-specific apps they like best. Sure, you can use an Apple iPhone to make calls, but as devotees of the ubiquitous device know, there’s so much more to Steve Jobs’ wonder product than the phone itself.Ī big part of the appeal of the iPhone, of course, is Apple’s App Store, where users can browse a mindnumbing array of applications (more than 75,000 at last count) created specifically for the device. ![]()
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