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SkyDemon app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 2080 ratings )
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Developer: Divelements Limited
Free
Current version: 3.9.2, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 09 Feb 2012
App size: 47.29 Mb

SkyDemon is Europes favourite software for VFR flight planning and in-flight navigation.

Use this app to access your SkyDemon subscription on your iOS device, unlocking SkyDemons powerful features while on the move.

FLIGHT PLANNING FEATURES

- SkyDemon vector charts are the clearest aeronautical charts youll ever use, with dynamic airspace clipping and choice of map layers
- Route planning is as simple as touching consecutive waypoints and dragging to make changes
- Virtual Radar shows how your route relates to airspace, terrain, obstructions and other features
- Pilot Log facility calculates headings and groundspeeds from actual wind data, and shows useful frequencies
- Plates and other documents for relevant airfields are displayed automatically as you plan, and many are available georeferenced for use in flight
- Intuitive pan, pinch and rotate support with no loss of map clarity or text legibility
- File a VFR flightplan for your route directly to air traffic controllers
- Automatic TAF, METAR and SIGMET briefing as you plan a route, with graphical decoding
- Rainfall data can be overlaid on the main map, with animation, showing the trend of rainfall over time
- Integration of GAFOR route forecasts for Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia
- Both narrow-route and area NOTAM briefings available, updated as you plan
- Advanced NOTAM graphical interpretation and depiction on the main map
- Easily print your PLOG and the output from various briefings
- Warnings for airspace and other potential hazards to your flight, updated in real time
- Airfield Admin Information shows useful contacts and other details for airfields featured in our charts
- Forecast winds aloft are automatically retrieved for the flight time and displayed on the map
- Create an advanced flight performance profile for each aircraft you use
- ATS Routes mode offers an alternative chart presentation for flight along airways
- Accurate fuel, weight and balance calculations including flight costings
- Create an unlimited number of user-defined waypoints
- Analyse your track logs for posterity
- Choose between six different vector chart styles
- Extensive European chart coverage as standard

GPS NAVIGATION FEATURES

- Intelligent warnings for approaching airspace, NOTAM, obstacles, terrain and other hazards
- Virtual Radar shows a side-on projection of all approaching features and how your trajectory relates to them
- Vector map automatically follows the aircraft in north up, track up or course up orientation
- Clear and concise instruments show you flight statistics and help keep you on track
- An HSI/ILS instrument helps you keep to your planned route and line up early for approach
- Live Pilot Log shows progress through your route, ETAs, ATAs and useful frequencies based on your current position
- TerrainSafe dynamically colours mountainous terrain around you to quickly identify safer areas
- Direct To allows easy re-routing in a hurry by picking from a selection of nearby airfields
- Approach Information shows runway diagrams, TAF, METAR, NOTAM and other airfield details useful for making an approach
- Live updates of TAF and METAR while in flight, with associated alerts*
- Extended runway centrelines appear automatically on the map as you near your destination airfield
- Permanent display of position relative to nearest well-known waypoint, for position reporting
- Easy changing of the planned route while in flight by touching and dragging

Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

* Internet connection required for live weather update while in flight

Pros and cons of SkyDemon app for iPhone and iPad

SkyDemon app good for

Best Europe VFR gps navigation!! Getting better and better every updated version! Excellent customer support. Thanks and go on like this ....
Sky Demon is the best aviation navigation software, with the best graphics, sharp and uncluttered. Its readability in flight is better than any competition. I love the virtual radar feature and the HSI rose. Ive been using it in flight in my homebuilt plane for a year, and all what I needed was this iPad version. The weather (TAF / METAR) real time update is just amazing and function very well. I wonder how we were flying without this feature ! Im just worried that Ill have to get a 3G subscription only for this feature. The safety and peace of mind is worth the money. I really recommend this excellent app. Also get iVAC (for France), its free, and you have all the flight info you need ! The best addition to my iPad ever !
This app is absolutely fabulous for VRF Flying, in europe. The number of updates is amazing and the development team is available during air shows. They do a great job that deserves our loyalty.
Just the best flight planning solution for Europe: after 1 year of intensive use on an ultralight plane, none of the other products on the market can bit this apps...
This is clearly the best European VFR planification and navigation app available on iPad.
This is the best affordable app for GA. It allows you to calculate route in a few minutes, ten print all necessary data, take to cockpit. You may feel like an airline transport pilot. :-) I hae never used E6B since I installed SkyDemon.

Some bad moments

Have loaded it into my iPad 3 times does not work? I am running a iPad 1 with the latest update have asked for support will update with sky demons reply Service support was quick and solved the problem as my iPad was set to Hong Kong changed it to U.K. and it now works map integration with flight planning tools notams Tafs metars is excellent and is a great tool for the iPad pilot will report back after I have used it on a few more flights but so far I am very impressed.
Have used Fore Flight and WingX and new Garmin for IPad . This Fly Demon, beats them all. No more North up, this has either North up or Route up for navigation, also has a useable a glide slope in panel instrumentation format....add google earth -route depiction for virtual synthetic vision and say good bye Garmin . This is the best so far. Do still like WingX as runner up.
Very impressive app, and it would even be helpful for me if you would add Iceland in your maps as I live and fly in Iceland :-) With best wishes and hopes for us few but interested!
Downloaded to my iPad 3 and program asked for my logon name and password. Of course, I never had a chance to register, so nothing worked. Very frustrating.
Was just informed by SkyDemon tech support that they have no intention of supporting US-based pilots. Strange, because they provide US maps, plates, etc. But there are several features that dont work at all for US, including NOTAMs and TFRs - a rather critical gap in flight planning coverage. SkyDemon also translates the METAR visibility data into meters and converts the altimeter settings into millibars - again useless for US pilots. This caused me to drop my rating for this app from 5 Stars to 3 Stars, because it listed in the US App Store, but isnt usable (at least for all its advertised capabilities) by US pilots! OK, with those drawbacks clearly stated and out of the way, I have to say that Im really disappointed that I wont be able to use this as my primary flight planning tool. For those of you in Europe, this is probably the best app of its kind - an easy "5-Star" rating for the Euro pilots. It provides the most complete planning capability, including fuel planning (with configurable reserves and a factor for "contingencies" that make it highly unlikely to inadvertently run out of fuel on any SkyDemon flight plan... The ability to create multiple "cruise profiles" for your airplane (think different power settings and fuel burn rates) as well as climb/descent profiles means that SkyDemon can accurately tell you where to begin your climb (or descent) in order to be at the target altitude at the right time/place, and correctly predict the fuel requires to perform the flight. During the planning cycle, you get warning when your enroute altitudes are below the minimum safe altitudes for that segment, and you can adjust individual segments accordingly. The "profile view" lets you visualize the vertical flight parameters along your route, and jump immediately to a specific point on the "top-down" view to add a waypoint, or just to get a better perspective. In summary, for Euro pilots, this could be the best tool around, and well worth the price of the software. But if you are a US pilot, SkyDemon could be a useful planning aid, but you should NOT plan to rely on it as your primary software. Lack of US-based visibility and altimeter setting info in the translated METARs, lack of any TFR info, and zero availability of NOTAMs are a "fatal gap" in coverage that will force you into another tool. The companys stated lack of interest in providing support for US pilots is a critical omission to me, and makes me wonder why SkyDemon is even listed in the US version of the App Store. I wonder if Apple even realizes that these folks have no intent to service and support US based users...
Tried to log in to get started. No button to get set up. No button to even reset password, as if I had one.