Thoughts on APG iPreFlight?
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Thoughts on APG iPreFlight?
Exploring alternatives to our current solution. Anybody using this system today? Doesn't seem to be a lot of public reviews around it.
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I have been using it for some three years now. To get approval from our supervising authority we had to establish a procedure by which we upload the calculated data to a cloud before the flight. Which means that our iPads are required to have internet connections when on the ground. Other than that the app works well and is easy to use. It takes less than a minute to do weight&balance and V speed and runway calculations. With internet access it will use the latest METAR directly, in the air you have to type in some values from the ATIS.
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don't buy APG
I would not recommend APG iPreflight at all, especially with the other much better and safer alternatives available on the market.
Overall the application's user interface is not easy to use (it does not re-use any of the user interface elements of the FMS) but the major issue is with its reliability: the calculations are too often inconsistent with the FMS, and the application is plagued with dangerous bugs. For exemple, if you enter a takeoff weight of 50.0 (which you read in the airplane's FMS as 50 thousand pounds), APG's iPreflight will accept the input and output results for 50 pounds without any warning whatsoever, absolutely terrifying from a human factors point of view. User input validation is something that is taught in the first year of software engineering degrees, so an mistake like this is deeply concerning and says a lot about the quality of the product.
The developers of this application made a product that merely "ticks the box" for performance calculations, but lacks the quality and reliability you would expect from an aviation product.
Source: 2 years using APG, and I have used proper performance calculation software from Gulfstream, Boeing and Airbus in previous companies.
Overall the application's user interface is not easy to use (it does not re-use any of the user interface elements of the FMS) but the major issue is with its reliability: the calculations are too often inconsistent with the FMS, and the application is plagued with dangerous bugs. For exemple, if you enter a takeoff weight of 50.0 (which you read in the airplane's FMS as 50 thousand pounds), APG's iPreflight will accept the input and output results for 50 pounds without any warning whatsoever, absolutely terrifying from a human factors point of view. User input validation is something that is taught in the first year of software engineering degrees, so an mistake like this is deeply concerning and says a lot about the quality of the product.
The developers of this application made a product that merely "ticks the box" for performance calculations, but lacks the quality and reliability you would expect from an aviation product.
Source: 2 years using APG, and I have used proper performance calculation software from Gulfstream, Boeing and Airbus in previous companies.
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I just started using it a couple of months ago. Before it was GURU.
As Youpla wrote, the interface isnot user friendly. Lots of opening, closing and re-opening of pages
to get things done.
My biggest concern is that it does not provide a recommended take-off flap setting for 2nd segment restrictions (or I am to dumb to find it).
As Youpla wrote, the interface isnot user friendly. Lots of opening, closing and re-opening of pages
to get things done.
My biggest concern is that it does not provide a recommended take-off flap setting for 2nd segment restrictions (or I am to dumb to find it).
