Hello again everybody and welcome to another episode of Flyday Facts.
What we're doing today is we're going to be talking about the top apps I think you
should have on your iPad or non Apple branded tablet if you're a private pilot
I hope you had a good week I hope you managed to get up and go flying
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like a suspicious girlfriend sorry I don't mean like I want to know where
you've been this week I mean I just you know I'd love to know where you've been
this week anywhere nice? Just before we start if you're new to the channel
welcome my name's Stefan I'm a private pilot I run this YouTube channel to
share my pilot adventures tips and tricks if you're learning to become a
pilot or if you're wondering what to do with your private pilot's license and
also heaps of travel content as well from all the places that I go and visit.
Now I'm not talking about electronic flight bag apps on here so Oz runways
which I use a lot, AvPlan EFB which I've also used great apps there's Foreflight
in the U.S. We're not talking about those today what I'm talking about
are some of the little apps which are really
useful to help in your training but also
to help you when you are flight planning to understand the weather and just to
make sure that you're ahead of the aircraft before you go ahead and take
that flight. So what I want to do is share my top 5 apps with you, the
apps that I have on my iPad which are invaluable for me in the cockpit on
those long flights... As usual let's stick 600 feet on the altimeter and let's get
straight into my top 5 apps that you should have as a private pilot. Windy
this isn't an app to track how much curry you had last night it's actually a
really useful meteorological forecasting tool all you do is you type in a
location and it will show you the forecast weather temperature
precipitation and wind but the power with windy is you can then close that
little panel down and drag the slider across to the day you're trying to fly
and you can see what the weather is going to be for that day. You can also
change your main overlay from wind to cloud there's a temperature overlay and
so on but I love this app because it just puts everything together in a
really visual way. Cirrus ProFlite. Now it's more for the cirrus pilots out
there but even if you're not flying a Cirrus you can still use this for a
couple of functions all you do is you load your aircraft for example we've got
Tango Delta Sierra here put in all the basic weights enter the weights for
yourself your co-pilot any passengers any baggage and you're
presented with a really cool interactive weight and balance screen. All you need
to do is adjust the fuel until you within the envelope or click on the max
button and it will automatically do that for you and you know you're still within
the envelope. LiveATC. Now a lot of you pilots might be familiar with it but for
student pilots this is a really useful one for you especially if you're a
little bit nervous with all those radio calls. You just tap on a country you tap
on the airport and listen to a live feed of all the air traffic control
communications if a particular product or eco app rating if you like walking or
running or any kind of activity where you're listening to music if you're
learning to become a pilot stop listening to Spotify and start listening
to live ATC. This is a bit of a toy more than anything else but it's a good toy.
Flightradar24 is a really cool way of tracking flights you can pull up a map
tap on the plane that you're looking at and you get all this information about
that aircraft but one of the really cool features is the AR or augmented reality
feature. Point the app into the sky at the plane you're looking at and it will
give you the same information because the app knows exactly what that plane is
and where it is. It's very cool. Number five, now it's not actually an app per se
but it's a web app if you go to satview.bom.gov.au choose the infrared
and zehr option and this plots temperature as color ranges making it
really easy to see those deep convective areas typically associated with things
like thunderstorms. Now remember this isn't a forecast it's just a view of
what's been happening but if you click on the play button you can see an
animation of what's been happening recently and so it gives you a bit of a
clue on what the trend might be if any weather fronts or any thunderstorms that
might be moving ahead into your path. And so those are my top five apps now like I
say there's still the electronic flight bag apps OzRunways AvPlan EFB I
have those and I'll use those they're excellent but I didn't really want to
cover them here today I just wanted to talk about those smaller apps that just
make your life as a private pilot easier. I would love to hear what your top five
apps are I bet you've got some ideas which I didn't cover here you're
probably thinking why did he talk about that when this app is a million times
better. Do let me know because I'd love to learn from your experience as well
and it really helps the pilot community of all the other subscribers here on the
channel so let us know in the comments below
what your top apps are on your iPad. I keep saying iPad but I just want to make
sure you know I mean non brand-specific digital
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