Airports Plus app for iPhone and iPad

4.6 ( 9776 ratings )

Utilities Travel
Developer: Alexander Flohr

2.99 USD

Current version: 5.2, last update: 9 months ago
First release : 24 Jan 2012
App size: 148.75 Mb

Airports plus includes an offline database of thousands of multi-detail world airports for high speed search in flight and on the ground.

Airports plus is universal: One purchase allows the use of Airports plus on both your iPhone/iPod touch AND on the iPad, optimized for HD split screen graphics, including satellite and regular maps.

Search by IATA, ICAO, Name, City or a combination of any. A list of search results appears while you type. Store your favorites in a separate list and add your personal notes to each individual airport. Backup your notes or share with other users.

User maintained database of approach types. Add and correct approaches to any runway and help growing the best approaches collection on iOs.Your contributions will go live for all users to see instantly.

One-click current weather information (METAR/TAF) as well as VOLMET stations (VHF and HF) worldwide

Airport information includes:

- Runway layout (offline & fullscreen)
- Coordinates
- Elevation
- Timezone reference to UTC (winter and summer)
- quick indication of the longest runway available

A list of most common radio frequencies including:

- ATIS
- Approach
- Director
- Ground
- Tower
- De-icing
…and others

A list of all runways including:

- dimensions (length and width) in feet or meters
- information on displaced thresholds
- Runway Heading
- Surface
- Lighting

Provided internet connection:

- receive most current weather information instantly (METAR and TAF)
- display airport on a fullscreen map. Choose from
- satellite
- standard map
- hybrid

Please note: Like all comparable airport apps, airport data is taken from open source databases and may not be up to date, eventhough frequent updates are provided.

Pros and cons of Airports Plus app for iPhone and iPad

Airports Plus app good for

Intuitive, it is useful for preflight review and preparation to get maps, met reports and notams easily. Very good technical support as well.

Very nice program, great for getting info all in one place and quickly when enroute...

Some bad moments

I just took this on a couple of round the world trips. It has now replaced most of my old Palm notes (which I still carry) but have waited years to do. Very (extremely!) good piece of kit. It would be also useful in some of the more outlandish Simulator sessions. Frequencies etc. all right there without having to flick through mountains of paper. 2weeks of constant use and it gets better and better. Notams are a great feature - can read before call in hotel when not rushed and tired. Map features, orientation, everything is well thought out and available. Thank you!!

This ok, but would better if it had general aviation airports and not just the mega ports. Its no use to me, because I dont fly into those type airports.

I paid for and checked out several other apps that are supposed to decode/encode IATA & ICAO airport codes. This is the only one that works globally. You can search by IATA, ICAO, city name or airport name. If you fly all over the world, this really helps deciphering area weather reports.

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