eCOPILOT

The electronic Copilot

About this app

eCOPILOT (The electronic Copilot) is a simple to use yet full-featured navigation, logbook and flight track recording app for private, recreational and ultralight pilots.
It is designed for use on 6 inch or bigger phones and tablets (landscape mode only)
eCOPILOT is geared towards the VFR "recreational" private pilot that wants an easy to use navigation app that is free of extra "over-complicated" features and that provides a "single tap / automatic" logbook to keep track of flying times.
Maps are downloaded once and then the app works fully offline. There are no accounts sign-in and no subscription fees.

As a navigation app eCOPILOT offers:
• Moving map navigation with worldwide airport database and user added Point of Interests.
• Worldwide Airspaces (78 countries) with visual alarm if inside an airspace.
• Worldwide Mountains, Lakes and Cities features database (location and elevation).
• Multi leg Flight Route creation with auto-selection of next leg POI/Airport.
• Altitude Above Ground with Terrain Avoidance Alarm.
• Total Flight Time Alarm.
• Configurable traffic area circle around aircraft and selected POI/Airport.
• Worldwide Airport database: Location, Runway heading, length, radio frequencies, altitude, description.
• Single Tap to go to nearest or any other POI/Airport.
• Single Tap to add POI/Airport to current flight leg.
• Worldwide Map is cached on the device. No need for internet while flying.
• Imperial, Nautical and Metric units.
• True and Magnetic compass.
• Full Screen Map View
• Full Import/Export of App Settings, Logbook and recorded tracks to local storage and as email attachment.

As a logbook eCOPILOT includes:
• Single tap to start and stop the current logbook or auto start on battery charging.
• Recording of flight track.
• Tracks may be "playback" within eCOPILOT. Up to 20x playback speed and "rewind" and "fast-forward" supported.
• Tracks may be viewed on any application, mobile or desktop, that supports KML files (such as Google Earth for Desktop / Android, MAPinr on Android, etc.)
• Logbook will automatically select "FROM" and "TO" airport/POI.
• Total Flight Time and current time display.
• Logbook entries can be viewed within the app.
• Logbook TFT and Air Time shown under the logbook entries list.
• Notes may be added to each Logbook entry.
• Logbook is saved as a plain text comma separated file that can be viewed on any text viewer app or imported in spread-sheet programs. Logbook entries contain: Aircraft Mark, From, To, Date/Time of take-off, Date/Time of landing, Total Flight Time as Hour/Minutes and Hours decimal, Total Travel Distance, Notes.
• Send logbook file and tracks to your email.

What’s new

Version 3.0.0 24 March 2026
- Complete upgrade of the Mapping Render Engine.
- Better information shown on map (airspace names, track line distances, airports info, etc.)
- Improved overall performance.
- Airports and Airspaces database updated to March 2025.
- See in-app Manual for more details and Settings page for new configurations.