Xavion

I paid $100 to purchase this app only to have it switch to a subscription model just a few months into using. No refund. No apologies. Greedy is an understatement to describe the developer Austin Meyer. I just saw someone use this app again and it is laughingly useless and obsolete now. For a subscription based model better stick with a larger company with established values and full features such as ForeFlight or Garmin Pilot.

I recently flew from Houston to Salt Lake City. I ran Xavion alongside the IflyGPS app and really found its features to be very useful. The NEXRAD weather data was actually more accurate and easily visible than that on my G1000 and the IflyGPS. The VFR approach highway in the sky is vey helpful when flying into small mountain airports. I have also found austin to be very responsive and helpful when questions arise. I highly recommend this app. Mike Belfort

Why is it that every other app I use updates with reasonably small data downloads, and yet this one requires 3.6 GIGABYTES ?? (the entire app)

I have used Xavion while flying my Cessna 150 for a few years. The app has always worked perfectly in the cockpit and it gives me peace of mind knowing my options in the event the engine quits. I have communicated with Austin a couple of times and he has always been responsive. Most recently I had noticed a minor display issue on the new iPad mini 6 as it has a larger screen than previous models. Austin went above and beyond to resolve this, including buying a new iPad mini 6 himself to test.

Excellent flight application. Simple to understand and use. Absolutely love the approach guidance display feature in VFR mode and in IFR, right out of “2001 a Space Odessa”

I have a great app I have been using on Android. I got X-planes flight simulator to introduce my grandson to flying. He is getting pretty good at it with just a mouse. In the process I stumbled onto Xavion video and since it had a 30 day trial I downloaded it on my IPhone. Since it isn’t like other apps it took me a minute to really understand everything it could do. I was impressed that I could use it both in my airplane and with the X-planes simulator. I set it up on X-planes for my grandson who up to now had only flown the 15 min free demo sessions on X-planes. I set him up at the airport near his home and fight planed a 300 mile cross country to my home. He flew X-planes to my home and landed in 2 hours using Xavion hoops for navigation and let down planning. The next day I took him flying at my home airport and let him fly the real airplane with Xavion. He found his way back to the airport and had me setup for a landing. I have much more to explore but I was impressed with the integration. I will do formal weight and balance in the future, because it is the easiest and best I have seen and it provides Xavion with information to plan power off emergency landing at near by airports. I have orders an iPad because my eyes are not as good as my grandson’s and I couldn’t see some of the text well enough on the iPhone in the cockpit. This app seems to be continuously improved. And it is written by a real pilot with passion to make it work well. He has claimed the flight simulation market its X-planes and beat out all the competitors. As and aside, I will tell you the my son is a Lt. Col in the USAF and commanded an international flight training squadron. When I visited there I found there flight simulators were all based on X-planes. I also worked to Evans and Sutherland. The invented world class visual systems for flight simulators. There market is eroding because the latest gaming hardware pared with X-planes is good enough. It beats out the million dollar option in may cases.

Xavion is great once you configure and really get everything dialed in. It changes a lot each release even minor ones so you really have to keep on top of what changes occur so you know how to use it properly. I have practiced “engine out” procedures with it several times and it really does bring you to a runway but practice with it because it sometimes doesn’t bring you where you would see the runway miles before getting there if the airport area has trees or is hidden. I am considering dedicating an iPad mini to just xavion for emergency field location only. For me I am not yet willing to use it as a full efb. Excellent tool in the cockpit

I enjoyed a cross country trip last week from Southern California KSEE -KDMN-KALM-KBGD-KWDG Enid, Oklahoma while running Xavion. Throughout the trip I gained an appreciation of the power of this application as it forecasted real time safe power off glides to airports within my grasp in any event of a power failure. This App continues to offer the most sophisticated features still not offered in the other best in class products. I run Xavion alongside Seattle Avionics FlyQ EFB to add just another form of redundancy, both coupled with iLevil AW3 for ADS-B in. The original mission statement of glide guidance to a best suitable airport remains a favorite feature. Thanks for all your excellent development and support.

New feature, free sectional charts. Saves me over $100/year. Love the engine out “glide through the boxes in the sky” to get you safely to an airport ready to land.

Love the new thoughtful features with airspace visualization in 3D! Although it takes some time to setup, this is a super powerful app and any pilot should understand their airplane performance (or fly it!) enough to populate. Just awesome... and it keeps getting better! Looking forward to next update.