Just wondering what the consensus is, I downloaded it last night and it seems pretty cool at first glance. Free for the first month, and I think $50 a year after that..

It was neat, but it is hard to use an Android while flying for severa reasons. I would also do the forced close thing quite often. The most successful use I had of it was when I was in the right seat and was able to use both hands and sheild the screen from the sun. I wouldn't pay $50 to use it, I am still saving up for a used Garmin.

D.

Looks pretty cool. I tried to run a similar app on my phone but the screen was too small. If you have a tablet to run this on it would probably work just fine.

Coyote Ugly,
I asked a relevant question on the EAA forum. The consensus is Aviator and Naviator are two of the better apps for the android system. I haven't been able to try either as of yet. I recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy Tablet after my laptop got toasted from a virus. I played with it a bit but since I am no computer whizz I need more time to understand its nuances.
Check out the thread on EAA forums if you get a chance.
Good Luck and report back please.

Avilution AviationMaps was the product I was trying to think of. One feature I liked about it is that flight plans were stored on their servers rather than your local device. You could create flight plans any time even if you weren't connected to the Internet. But if you did have internet access you could save and store your flight plans on their server. The product was pretty slick but like I said my phone was just too small. If I had a GalaxyTab that would have been a different matter.

I just tried it but appears no Canadian database..

I tried Naviator on my phone for a week and paid the $50 for a year. I then bought a cheap 7" tablet. I think it works great, and the guy is updating it with new features all the time. On the last update he put terrain on it. I made a mount for the tablet and it is on the left and my 496 is on the right. With the bigger screen it's much easier to see that the 496.If you have a tablet try it free for 30 days, I think it's neat.

Tim

Yea, I like it on my Galaxy Note phone, think I'm gonna pay the $50, just to have the charts available if nothing else, but it seems to work good and I can see it fine on there. It does have a glitch of force closing if you switch from horizontal to vertical, does it even if you shut your phones auto rotate function off, but once strapped to my leg it's fine. Seems to work great otherwise.. Still haven't tried all the features, and who knows, maybe I won't.. ha ha

I also just got the Galaxy Note phone. I was wondering what it would be like on there. I also picked up an Samsung Galaxy 8.9 tablet, if I can figure a way to mount it in my Cub.......

I bought a 7" Galaxy by Samsung last June and tried the Naviator for free for a month. I liked it fine and am sure by now it is better. My gripe is that the device sometimes had a hard time getting its location while in the air. Same problem driving up I-5 in the pickup. It is not app but it is the device.

I have heard that you can plug in a gizmo that will give you better gps service. Anybody tried one of these.

Tim

Yes. I have an Acer A-100 7" tablet and it would lose the signal in the airplane all the time. After some research I bought one of these and it never loses a fix, works great. Dual XGPS150 Go on amazon and put that in the search bar. Good luck. By the way it's bluetooth.

Tim

qmdv wrote:I bought a 7" Galaxy by Samsung last June and tried the Naviator for free for a month. I liked it fine and am sure by now it is better. My gripe is that the device sometimes had a hard time getting its location while in the air. Same problem driving up I-5 in the pickup. It is not app but it is the device.

I have heard that you can plug in a gizmo that will give you better gps service. Anybody tried one of these.

Tim

One of my good friends at the airport has a 9 or 10 inch tablet with this Naviator software on it, and he absolutely loves it. He flies IFR in a fully decked out 430 equipped Comanche. He bought a $25 GPS module that connects with his tablet via Bluetooth, and this allows his tablet to become a full moving map with the background being actual aeronautical charts. To me that is the big thing, I learned to navigate using a NOAA sectional and I have been angry that previous GPS devices could not put the airplane icon on a real chart. He says that the cost of the charts alone for him to stay current would pay for the software license.

Show us a link here. Google shows too many hits for "navigator android".

It is rumored that Apple will release a 7" tablet this year. The Samsung + GPS receiver gets into that territory cost wise.

Try Googling "Naviator" instead of "navigator", or throw in the word "aviation" and/or "aircraft".

Here's the link to the site.

http://www.naviatorapp.com/faq_naviator.aspx

I read that AnyWhere Map has an android app now also.
http://store.controlvision.com/android. ... neral-Info

Looking really hard at Garmin Pilot Ap for I-Pad or Android . Watching UPS for Motorola Xoom from Scott as I speak. http://garmin.blogs.com/my_weblog/2012/ ... vices.html really like Garmin products .

oldtech wrote:I just tried it but appears no Canadian database..

I found it, you just have to download it. Haven't taken it for a fly yet.

Just tried naviator out today. Looks like it is pretty slick, worked really well on my galaxy s II phone. The anywheremap app could be pretty nice though, hadn't seen that before.

I'd like to try the anywheremap also but you have to buy it, no free trial. It might be better than naviator.