FLY is FUN Aviation Navigation

Petr Kouřil

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About this app

FLY is FUN is designed by pilots for pilots. FLY is FUN simplify flight preparation and improve situation awareness during flight, providing information on airspaces, reporting points, position on moving map, elevation, frequencies, railway, weather info … facilitate access to airfields related PDF document. Application also displays NOTAMs and data from rainfall radars.

FLY is FUN simulates ILS approach, VOR, NDB, DME, Marker beacons, RNAV navigation and Marker beacons warnings, without ILS/VOR/NDB/RNAV equipment on board.

You can test FLY is FUN for free during few days. At the end of the trial period, pilot is invited to subscribe and pay an annual fees. Doing it, he get the right of using the application "as it is" and contribute to development effort.

FLY is FUN allows:
- Creating and modifying routes using "drag and drop", "rubber band"
- Getting warnings, alarms and radio info before entering controlled or special use airspaces, approaching points
- Performing route planning, evaluating distance, time and fuel consumption (depending on wind and aircraft characteristics)
- Displaying route, bearing, trace on moving map
- Visualizing airspace
- Getting dynamic terrain map (colors depending of elevation above ground level)
- STRATUX support
- Creating and exporting Flight Plan
- Creating and exporting Flight log
- Creating, importing or exporting routes, waypoints, RWY, airspace (Garmin .gpx, .kml, txt, OpenAir)
- Recording the flight and playing it back with Google Earth
- Sunset / Sunrise
- Getting weather forecast along the route
- Rainfall radar
- Wind displaying
- Calculating distance between 2 points on the map
- VACs
- Notepad
…

All main screens (5 portrait and 5 landscape could easily be customized. Pilot can choose from around 100 values to display. Example:
- Altitude GPS or barometric
- Ground speed
- Bearing
- Vertical speed
- DME to next point / destination
- Estimated time to next point / destination
- Time since departure
- Stop watch
…

Displayed information could be customized too depending of users preferences (VFR, IFR or both) and zoom level. The more you zoom IN, the more detail, information, waypoints,.. you see

Logbook
The integrated logbook, allows recording:
- Duration since departure time
- Departure and arrival time
- Departure and arrival airport
- Flight track (it is possible to export it as .kml or .gpx and to replay it)
- Used aircraft
- Pilot(s) and copilots in charge
- Distance, average speed, maximum speed
…


Navigation data available from open source database are updated according AIRAC cycles.

Charts and elevation dta
Free charts and elevation data are available for most of countries and could be imported directly via the application store.
Other charts could be created and imported by the pilot itself or made on request available as commercial service.

Pilots could select the most appropriate charts: free open source charts as well as commercial charts as ICAO, Cartabossy, SkyVector, FAA sectional and terminal charts…

VACs and PDF files
VAC and AIP infos are available for more than 50 countries
User can easily attach your own PDF files.

Usage of external GPS connected via Bluetooth is possible

User guide: http://www.funair.cz/downloads/manuals/flyisfun.pdf

If you have any suggestion to improve this application or you find some bug please visit www.flyisfun.com

Use this application for VFR FLYING ONLY!!! We are not responsible for any use of this application.

Ratings and reviews

I used the app a few years back during my ppl cross country flights and it was of great help, especially in navigating through the airspaces. That's great value for the money. It would have been nice for the graphics to move smoothly during navigation like for example: waze or Google maps...but I got used with it.

With open source maps, load-your-own ERSA & not CASA certified, it used to be a cheap & cheerful VFR companion. But with each update (all support to EU & USA) it becomes ever more troublesome. For downunder, add all the wierd terminology to mesmerizing and ballooning array of controls, I'm sad to say it is fast becoming a liability in the cockpit.

I have bought the app FiF 15.0 with the LIFETIME licence. I understand your monetary policy change, but it should be for NEW customers only. It is highly unprofessional, I believe even against customer protection regulations, to sell the product with lifetime licence and cancel that afterwards. As pilot I have used app for flying regularly, but now I find it highly unreliable as I'm not able to update new database. I am very disappointed with your business politics, I could find cracked version when I at first downloaded it, but I've decided to buy and support your development. Even if I buy yearly licence, how I could be sure that you will not change again your monetary policy to monthly or daily payment for licence? This is not way how to do business.

What’s new

35.31
- Uzbekistan has its own abbreviation (UZ). If you have imported it before, you need to remove it (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan) and import nav database again.

35.30
- METAR and TAF data end point changed. Now it is possible to use again. The old one is not working any more.