Avia Maps Aeronautical Charts

Remy Webservices UG

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About this app

The reliable and straightforward aviation maps for pilots and aerospace enthusiasts around the world. The app is suited for pre-flight planning as well as in-flight navigation. Simply choose any 5 by 5 degree area on earth and download relevant data for offline use. The map features over 65000 airports, 9000 navaids and 15000 waypoints around the globe, just as airspaces for currently 62 countries on all continents (except Antarctica). Countries with airspace data include the United States and Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

Global, high resolution weather forecasts from the German DWD and US American NOAA provide accurate map layers for cloud cover, ceiling, precipitation, wind on the ground as well as aloft. The data is downloaded onto the device, so you can check the forecast even during flight without cell reception. To retrieve the latest METAR and TAF at your destination airport it is integrated with Avia Weather.

A digital elevation model supports you with planning your route in the mountains. During flight the terrain overlay will dynamically color hills and mountains on the map depending on your current altitude to increase your situational awareness.

To enhance safety, Avia Maps can display traffic information from your favorite ADS-B receiver or from the SafeSky app directly on the map. It supports receiving traffic data using the GDL90 format, which is supported by most portable ADS-B receivers like SkyEcho or Stratux. If you do not have a receiver, SafeSky can provide traffic data using an internet connection only.

For the most accurate performance calculations you can create multiple aircraft profiles from handbook values for climb performance, fuel consumption etc. Route calculations will use these profiles and even consider engine type and fuel burn for climb performance, employing common formulae used in aerospace engineering. From as little as four carefully chosen data points the app can accurately recreate the climb performance diagram in your POH.

For clarity and commonality to paper charts the map is themed in the style of ICAO Annex 4 (Aeronautical Charts). If you use the app on multiple devices you can synchronize your routes, aircraft profiles and user waypoints between them.

This is a trial app with full features. After an evaluation period of 30 days you will have to buy a perpetual license from within the app or subscribe to the professional tier.

Ratings and reviews

Overall this is a good app. I typically fly with an iPad and ForeFlight but I carry an Android phone and need something in my pocket where I can do preliminary flight planning. this app has been good for that and I'm interested to see where it goes. One issue that I had is that I went in to buy a modular license, and UI shows that that's $30. When I click it to purchase the price suddenly jumps to $50. I'm going to hold off to see how that shakes out.

Want to give five stars but it's lacking some very important features. As far as I'm aware, there is no nighttime mode, so if you fly at night you will have a ton of white light coming out of this app, which we all know destroys night vision, even on low brightness, so this app is almost useless at night. Second, it does not display obstacles on your route. There are several cell towers in my area that go all the way up to 2,000 feet, yet they are not displayed. Very dangerous!

An extremely high quality app with a bright future. I would love to see save-able and re-nameable custom waypoints (currently custom waypoints are auto-named Waypoint 1, 2, 3, etc.) and more aviation-related items on the map (obstructions, MSAs, etc). I love the integration with Avia Weather. Very well done!

What’s new

NEW: Hybrid-Online-Mode. AIP and terrain data are now always downloaded for a contiguous area, which you can always explore entirely including all zoom levels. For the base maps you can decide for every map tile separately wether to download all selected zoom levels or only a minimum set of zoom levels or to download no base maps at all. As long as you are online the missing base map tiles will be downloaded and cached automatically.

Several minor bugfixes and performance improvements.