FlightReady E6B

Update: Reply received from the developer. Great to hear from them and no idea why I didn’t receive the original reply they say they sent. This review and reply process is poorly designed (by Apple) … but that’s a separate issue. Updated to 4 stars because it’s a well designed app that is very easy to use and the reply is appreciated. Kudos for that. The issue with no guidelines or instructions provided remains. The vast majority of the functionality in the app is perfectly straight forward. If you can use a real life manual e6b this will be a no brainer. This is faster and usually easier. It’s a pretty good app. But the lack of any user manual makes a couple key calculations either very difficult to verify or too easy to use incorrectly (and receive the wrong output as a result). For the record, I understand the calculations well enough to do them manually with paper and pencil. A user quick guide would likely solve any remaining confusion. Or at least allow verification of accuracy.

I love the app already, I would just appreciate it so much if displayed times could also include seconds, at least as an optional setting. Recently during training my CFI simulated loss of ILS, VOR and DME during an approach on a simulator session. I know normally you just notify tower and request visual but for the purpose of learning something new he had me continue the approach using an NDB station as reference for how many miles out I was and with calculate the time until I was exactly over the point where you initiate descent. (The NDB is aligned with the runway and yes we still use NDB in my country sadly). Anyway, seconds are critical when dealing with such short distances and my CFI is not the kind of guy to just accept “1 min” over “1 min 30 seconds”.

I think this app has everything I need. Tools for figuring top of decent with wind could use tweaking because I would like to be able to put any known variable in and have it give me the unknown (it's possible I needed to dig deeper for one of the other tools). The time calculator will make catching up on my logbook a breeze! For 99c this is a must have from GA to Airline, there are things in this package for all pilots.