Pilot

As a CFI I really appreciate the %50 discount. The pricing is very reasonable and I like that there are only 2 pricing tiers, which makes things simple. With ForeFlight pricing going up and up it’s nice to have a solid alternative, as there have been many improvements to Garmin Pilot since I last used it. All of my new students will be using GP. Keep up the good work. The only thing I miss from ForeFlight is the Takeoff and Landing distance feature, so it would be nice to have this in the future.

Up until recently it has been working well. The newest release, while adding internet traffic, also locked the application up on my 6th generation IPad. I got it working again by not turning on that feature. I hope this does not mean Garmin Pilot will stop supporting my gen 6 IPad in the near future.

I used a competitive product for almost 15 years. Had no incentive to change to Garmin Pilot until Smart Charts. I tried Garmin Pilot during the 30 day free trial period and I was blown away: Smart Charts is so much better than Dynamic Procedures and, after using Garmin Pilot for a few weeks, I have found other great features like engine monitoring and data recording after each flight. If you experience an engine anomaly, you can play it back and determine potential causes. You need a Garmin EIS capability in your panel to do this, but wow, it is worth it. Other features like weight & balance are well integrated into flight planning and easy to use. I could go on and on, but my last observation is the financial bottom line - it is less expensive for a much better product.

Currently a student pilot with about 70 hours and have been using Garmin Pilot from the start, absolutely love it. I do wish that more metrics and reports were available. I also wish there was a tracker for cert or rating progress.

What a mess. with this last update, the database concierge function has disappeared. I’m pretty sure the program has a built-in urgency detector chip. The greater you need to get something done efficiently the more likely it is to Bork. This program has the capacity to really be great, but the update feature and the fact that I was double charged for years until I figured it out on my own what Garmin was doing to me is simply unconscionable. Now I’m sitting at the airport wasting time trying to get this blasted thing to work so I can depart.. great job Garmin. Keep the passengers waiting deal out delays whenever you can. #$&@#$@

Very different from my Foreflight experience. Initial chart downloads was a hard fail due to UI issues. Uploading my Foreflight logbook to Garmin was absolutely horrible. Garmin has obviously not thought about trying to win over Foreflight users since transitioning is totally manual and an unbelievable pain in the &$@#. Currency tracking is a hard fail. I manually input ALOT of data and it went from showing me fully current to then rejecting everything… why??? Originally I wanted to use Garmin but the flight school I was at used only Foreflight. So, I used that for the first year. Garmin should be easier to transition to because of how many Garmin systems are being used or upgraded into by Pilatus and Cessna jets plus Cirrus. Unfortunately so far my 30 day trial period is turning out to be a total fail due to the horrible transition from Foreflight. I do like the slightly cheaper prices and 2-tier subscription rather than more expensive 3-tier with Foreflight. Lots of interesting features with Garmin and I’m hoping this will work as a Foreflight replacement but does not look good right now.

Dealt with over the last 2 months trying to get this to work like it should. Contact support and tell me that I need to sign out force close and resign in. So every time I need to use it I’m screwing around for 15 mins or more trying to get to work right. Only got to work right once otherwise I said f it and went without it since it was taking too long to actually load like it should. Haven’t have subscription paid for a month and asked for refund. Denied by Google play store and customer service ignores my request. <br/>Get ForeFlight it works way better and way more user friendly for usability. Do not recommend this app.

Cessna 170 is not supported by the app. Have to build Weight and balance profile from scratch.