SimPlates

Published by: Dauntless Software
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SimPlates brings you the world’s largest collection of real-world IFR approach (and other) charts for the serious flight simulation enthusiast to your fingertips! SimPlates is not a flight simulator program in and of itself, but can be used as a companion on your iPhone and/or iPad concurrently with your enjoyment of your preferred computerized desktop flight simulation program to help expand the realism and excitement of the experience. SimPlates has been called "a must have for the serious flight simulator enthusiast" and "a great addition to your flight sim bag" by major flight simulation websites in independent reviews.
++THE VERSION NOW AVAILABLE HERE IS OF THE NEW 'SIMPLATES ULTRA' version which is a great leap forward in terms of plate coverage to the previous generation of SimPlates and has an improved user experience. The app looks and works great! Thank you all for the great feedback and kind words about SimPlates on simulator forums. We're glad you're enjoying the massive number of plates (way more than any other sim product has - including expensive subscription based services) and we continue to update the plate database further with more plates still. Happy simming!+++
The basic way that you use SimPlates is just like pilots from those flying small Cessnas to those flying the largest Boeing and Airbus airliners do every day. As you virtually approach an airport on your computer, bring up its corresponding plates in the SimPlates app. Use the plate as a guide in flying the approach to landing - just like a real world pilot would. SimPlates is useful for virtual pilots of many desktop flight simulation programs, including Flight Simulator (all versions including FSX, FS2004, and MS-Flight), X-Plane, and more.
While SimPlates are real-world plates, they are NOT SUITABLE FOR REAL WORLD FLIGHT OPERATIONS and MUST NOT BE USED FOR REAL WORLD FLIGHT OPERATIONS OF ANY SORT, PERIOD. As SimPlates is intended for flight simulation entertainment use, the plates are not kept up to date with real-world aviation changes (worldwide subscriptions for real-world current data cost thousands of dollars per year from other sources). However, for serious flight simulation entertainment use, the massive collection of plates represents incredible value and capability.
SimPlates includes over 70,000 real-world IFR plates, including approach plates, SIDs/STARs (Departures/Arrivals), Airport Diagrams, Approach types include ILS, VOR, VOR/DME, NDB, LLZ, SDF, GPS, TACAN, Helicopter and Visual. With so many plates, SimPlates provides very good worldwide coverage. For most countries and major airports of the world, if you are looking for a plates, SimPlates will likely have it. However, the coverage is not universal - please see http://www.dauntless-soft.com/products/simplates/airportlist.asp for the current list of inclusions and coverage notes. While most countries of most interest to simmers are quite up to date, a few are a bit older, such as AU/NZ due to provider issues.
Supplemental features include an integrated WORLDWIDE Airport/Facilities directory and a worldwide NAVAID (Navigational Aid) directory.
Simplates' friendly interface makes it easy to find exactly the plate or information you are looking for quickly. As the totality of plates exceeds a whopping 100gb, the plates themselves are not included with your initial download from the AppStore. Rather, they are downloaded on demand when you select them in the app – this generally takes only a few moments per plate, but does require you to be online. Any plates you have downloaded into SimPlates remain on your device (unless cleared) so that you can continue to use them even while offline. While this works great - this might mean that OCCASIONALLY the server might be unavailable for short periods.
Thank you for checking us out and happy sim flying!
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SimPlates Reviews

Sliding in quality

GoFLAPanthers on

United States

I’ve noticed some airports are disappearing from this app. Particularly in the Caribbean! Port au Prince now gone in addition to some full countries!

Not Worth The Money

kjhernandez on

United States

I share the same sentiment that the other reviewer about plates not downloading. I used to use this app all the time but here within the last week everything stopped working. I took a fall giant leap paying for this but now I'm sure it wasn't the best investment.

No Response

tdenbrock on

United States

This program is a serious waste of money. None of the USA plates will download and continues to give errors. I can’t stress enough to not purchase this product. Its plates never get updates and so most of them are useless. I can only give it a 1 star because there is no stars to give it a negative review

Threw away $30+ bucks

Gilby4294 on

United States

Unreal.. junk.. will not load charts, send error message every time. Will try to get $ back, Believe all the bad reviews, they are true.

Huge Disappointment

Rocky NY on

United States

I was hugely disappointed after purchasing and installing this product. Being a US resident, and wanting to use the US Airport charts, this product is useless. The App immediately exits when selecting any US airport chart. Their help is non-existent, completely unresponsive and their product simply does not work as advertised. Anyone purchasing this product to use with US Airports will recognize this same thing. What a rip off. Better off using the subscription service with Sky Charts Pro. It actually works as advertised, unlike this product. Worst purchase I ever made off of the App Store. Only gets one star because you cannot award zero stars which this product deserves.

Crashes

RavingFan on

United States

This app is GREAT when it works, but now, I can't even load up any charts. Please fix this bug!

Save Your Money

Crazed Critter on

United States

Program crashes! Can't even see any charts, only main screen, then BOOM CRASH!!

Perfect App

Eleven Contortionist on

United States

SimPlates turned out to be exactly what I needed. Works flawlessly and simply, and even saves plates for offline viewing. Thank you, and I recommend this app.

Awful!

Beckettrules on

United States

This app is an atrocity. For $25, you get a bunch of unorganized procedures which load maybe half the time. The other times it freezes, which forces you to redownload it. It's about the most expensive app I've bought, and yet it's worse than all the free ones I own. Do yourself a favor: Don't buy it!

Trouble connecting to server

Najee Saxophonist Flautist on

United States

This could be a nice app for flight simmers. Unfortunately this app is too expensive to have the problem related to server connection. On 10 occasions connecting to the server for airport info, IFR plates was unsuccessful This is obviously required because of the amount of information. When it works a lot of the data is good though not always up to date.. I am sorry to say this is not worth the money..

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