Aviation Apps you NEED in 2024

FREE aviation apps you can download today if you like aviation. These help you plan flights, help you during a flight, if you're a student pilot and want to learn to fly and on the ground after a flight.

Whether you're a seasoned pilot, a plane-spotter, or simply fascinated by the world of flight, these apps will provide you with entertainment and/or information, from real-time flight tracking and weather updates to games and educational resources.

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[StefanDrury]

A few people mentioned the distance planner tool is only available to premium (paid) users of the Windy app. My bad, I didn't notice that. I do pay for a premium subscription to Windy mainly because it's an awesome product and I want to support the developers. But you can absolutely get loads of useful and accurate weather information from just the free version. But my apologies if that is confusing from the video. Thanks everyone who mentioned that 🙏 stef

[ted]

Live ATC + Flight Radar - best entertainment while waiting for a flight, especially when conditions are bad and there's for example heavy snow at the airport :)

[Blxz]

Good video. It's hard to get good recommendations that don't cost 500 bucks a year, offer more than minimal utility, and aren't designed for millionaires. Thanks for these!

[FormulaFail]

11:15 Just remember the first letter from each region E in europe Y is around Australia, K around US, W around Singapore/ Malaysia and V around India O around Gulf... I remember OMDB KLAX WSSS YSSY VIDP and EGLL and so its a good tip to figure out the 1st letter of ICAO

[tonymax]

Be very careful with an iPad on the flight deck. (Or any loose objects). A Chinook went down not so long back, when the pilot monitoring dropped an iPad down on to the anti-torque pedals. When pilot flying applied pedal input, the pedals jammed. The PM could not reach down to retrieve the iPad due their harness. It was all over in a few seconds.
Fly safe - learn from the mistake of others; and not your own.
Take care.
Great channel Stefan.

[JasonMatthewGardner]

Great software tips.

Request:

I’d love you to do three separate YouTube videos. Preflight, In-flight, and Post-flight. Each video from start to finish of that particular leg, what you do during that stage, including the tools you use and why. I think that would be helpful for me. As I’ve spoken with other pilots, we have different ways of approaching each mission stage. I found your process to be very organized, and I think we would find that very helpful

[ToineK]

Hi Stefan, nice overview! For weather, I find Aeroweather very helpfull to get (and decode) METARs and TAF's for airports in my vicinity. When I go old-school with map, compass and stopwatch (my ipad failed on me a couple of times due to overheating so I like to be prepared), I like E6B Pathfinder to help with calculation of wind correction for headings and groundspeed. for my navplan.

[TimNjiru]

Had to watch this with my notepad. Everything was valuable and reading from the comments as well. Thank you Stef for such amazing content. Much love from Nairobi, Kenya.

[kurtreber]

Windy is the only app that predicts barometric pressure, enabling flight planning the night before.

[jimjernigan]

Awesome tip on that Windy feature! Also a big fan of GRAMET. I've found it to be extremely accurate. I wish there was a way to pay for it or something to bypass the Captcha system. Thanks!

[ThreeTreeCellars]

I have OpenADSB showing aircraft in the area, xWind which calculates cross wind component, and Aviator Weather, which translates METAR, TAF and NOTAMs for any airport that reports them.

[olivierbraun]

Safesky. Its more for Europe at the moment and its like a onboard radar tcas system. It makes your flight a bit more safe 😊

[appart-hotelstempologis]

Live ATC is great for learning aviation jargon in another language. I'm currently doing my PPL in France and in French. I'm pretty good at French but Live ATC helping lots with all the aviation jargon :)

[CrayonboxAviationAdventures]

I love apps too, especially if they are free 😊

[GlenAndFriendsCooking]

Auto Router - never heard of that one, I'll have to download and see if it works here in Canada.

[Auburnwoodsman]

Hi mate, great channel! Great to see another Englishman down here flying! I’m in New Zealand and just started my ppl!

[sjsconcepts]

Thank you for a very informative video. Even though some may not be relied on for flying, comparative information, and cross references cannot hurt.

[vsznry]

Bookmarking this. BTW Stefan, what did you do before YouTube?

[peter-eq]

Brilliant info from someone who’s clearly Very practical!!

[jumbo.fly]

THANKS
I LEARN A LOT OF STUFF FROM YOU
FROM PARIS WITH LOVE 😁