App Profile: Simple Flying - Aviation News

srmech_engr

Rating: 5/5

I’ll have to admit, I was at the end of the first week and didn’t know whether I should delete this small app and regain the much needed storage, and get rid of the barrage of notifications (very short articles/along with a few tasteful, targeted ads) or just grin and bare it! The bare-it theme was easily compromised by unchecking some of the default list personal interests, which then tailors the notifications to only those stories you want to read about, and the hours of waking daylight you want to devote to reading (or ignore). I found my balance and now, some 12-14 weeks later, I found this app to be one of my strong suits! The stories contain about the best amount of detail to inform (primarily tidbits rather than an expose) to make them interesting! I find that I typically miss 25-30% of articles, so I unwittingly read the previous, and the one before that, and so it goes for the next hour. I will also admit to clicking on the very limited and always in the same placement of the article, since I genuinely have a desire to select that particular sales ad I might need. It’s not cumbersome on the page and they are , to date, 100% behavior correct, so I don’t mind. If you have a passion for aviation, then download the free app, and get started reading! It’s fun stuff.

rish14

Rating: 2/5

it’s a great app for reading aviation news but it has way too many ads (like pop ups which can be closed and just ads in the reading itself) and the app crashes after reading 2 stories that you have to force close the app and reopen it but other than that it’s good: update: recently updated with new version and it still crashes and has many bugs, USE THE WEBSITE INSTEAD

Cstew69

Rating: 4/5

I love the look, the breadth and depth of stories, variety of subjects (Boeing p, Airbus, industry info), and I don’t seem to have the technical glitches that some have, except an annoying ad pop-up. But the professional level of journalism needs work. It just sound so amateurish sometimes. And I find factual errors all the time, i.e., “some say the FAA will only allow pilots to have one type rating at a time”, or opinion pieces that are absurd, i.e., “Can an Airbus pilot fly a Boeing?” I hold 5 type ratings, both for Boeing and Airbus, and, though I’m not CURRENT on all these aircraft, I still possess the type ratings. Two minutes verifying this info on Google would have shown some journalistic integrity.