Lido mPilot

The program itself seems to be written for a windows engineer. It’s practical use in the flight environment is extremely poor and clunky. This program was forced on us at work I believe will be a contributing cause in future accident or incident. It’s lack of support for ADSB data and no VFR charts take away from situational awareness. If you change runways for departure or arrival, you must also go back and change the SID or STAR. Swapping between the airport, moving map and the ground charts at any of the big airports is horrible. I believe anyone would be better off to use NOAA charts this program.

Our airlines has forced us to switch to LIDO from Jeppessen. This GUI is full of glitches, the two finger page swap is so sensitive that if you pinch to zoom, it sometimes switches charts, very frustrating and the app crashes. How can you release an app that seems to have been designed by a school kid without having undergo real quality control? The charts are also terrible. The STARs have no runway transition text and it appears no one is quality checking the source data as I have already found numerous charts with gross errors. You boast that showing only the data you need for a runway as better, but the problem is when you get a last minute runway change, not easy to quickly find the correct altitude. One must select a new STAR with that runway, requiring a lot of steps. This adds complexity as we are entering the critical phase of flight. Speeds are in black making them easy to miss. The new multi window interface for the charts is the worst. How is splitting the IAC into 4 windows better than a single window. Your backup PDFs are 100 times better, can you offer a single window option? I can get everything I need without re-sizing and or zooming each little window to be able to see what I need to. Did you even have real pilots offer advice on how this will work? The AMM is missing number spots, runway length, exit distances. You have to reference the AGC and APC to get all the information you need. Why can’t you have it all on 1 chart? The weather layers are terrible, where are the turbulence charts? What about ADS-B in capability? The weather looks like someone took a cue from Roblox and if you want it updated it, you must close the app and re-open it, it does not have a time lapse, in short completely useless.

After years of looking at the bright white but dimmed screen in my face at 3am, I’m leaving this in the hope that me begging you to create a proper dark mode for iOS will actually happen. I understand Apple doesn’t make it easy, but for those of us up at all hours of the night could you please please made this improvement!