Airmate 4+

Flight planning/weather

Myriel Aviation SA

    • 4.5 • 114 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Now with real time traffic!

Airmate is a free and easy to use Electronic Flight Bag for pilots, providing help for flight planning and navigation, improving situational awareness and providing social sharing features.

Thanks to Airmate EFB flight planning tools, you will get instant access to airport data and aviation maps worldwide, up to date weather and NOTAMs, traffic around, and you could even file a flight plan.

IFR and VFR airport diagrams and plates are freely available in US (FAA charts), all Europe, and more than 200 other countries. Most of them are georeferenced and could be overlaid on the aviation chart. A powerful Plate Manager allows to download in advance all airport plates in a country, they could be easily printed and viewed.

During the flight, the moving map will display the aircraft location along the route, show airports and aeronautical data details, show traffic around and warn you if your planned route is crossing restricted areas. A profile view is available to display terrain elevation, crossed areas and forecasted weather across the route. Airmate can also display a backup aircraft attitude indicator and flight parameters in an EFIS-like view using the device internal sensors or a supported external AHRS-capable ADS-B receiver or supported aircraft avionics. In the whole world, Synthetic Vision displaying in the EFIS-like view the ups and downs of rolling terrain ahead is available.

Airmate includes a worldwide aeronautical database updated free of charge with airports, navigation beacons, waypoints, airways, obstacles, regulated and restricted areas. Topographic maps and elevation data for most countries may be downloaded free of charge, as well as additional aviation map overlays such US Sectionals. A procedure database provide details of departure (SID), arrival (STAR) and instrument approaches in specific countries, and you could add those procedures to your planned flight route (the procedure database includes all US airports, and many RNP approaches in other countries). Once loaded, the procedure path is displayed on the aeronautical map, including curved paths and racetracks.

When coupled with a supported external ADS-B received, Airmate will display nearby traffic on the moving map, and receive FIS-B weather and NOTAM during the flight. To improve safety, Airmate can display neighbouring traffic received over mobile network. Such traffic include commercial airlines and transponder-equiped aircrafts, FLARM gliders, aircrafts whose pilots are using Airmate and other users using other safety broadcasting equipment.

Airmate is able to transmit the flight plan data to and receive flight parameters and AHRS data from supported avionics such Dynon SkyView.

Thanks to the Auto Route feature, you could search and select the best route for your flight, and then file your flight plan anywhere in the world.

Airmate will also record your flights and allow to replay them later or export the flight path in gpx format. Pilot log entries are automatically computed from flown flights.

A Satellite map display mode in flight planning or replay mode allows to familiarize with significant landmarks.

Airmate will save planned and flown flights, user waypoints and user aircrafts in the cloud and sync them between your devices and Airmate web flight planning.

Airmate brings numerous social features to the community. Pilots may leave ratings, tips and comments to share their experience with fellow pilots, and report fuel prices and landing fees. They could find friends, instructors, flight schools, aviation events and aircraft to rent near their home airport or any visited airport.

Airmate may be connected to most flight simulators to keep flying skills sharp. Planned flights and personal waypoints may be imported and exported, including from/to flight simulators.

Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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What’s New

Version 3.15

Update fixing a plate download failure for the first operation and including previous version improvements:
- Download of airport diagrams and approach plates for a whole country now done with a country package with additional integrity checks.
- Real time position sharing with other Airmate users may be enabled or disabled from the layers button (disabled by default for privacy)
- Improved mapping controls, with the ability to switch anytime between map vector, raster and Satellite views
- Increased zooming capability on the Satellite view
- Improved display of nearby traffic received either over the mobile network (no equipment needed) or a supported ADS-B receiver or avionics.
- Improvement in the traffic warning window showing potential conflicting traffic (informational only, Airmate is not an approved collision avoidance device, and the pilot-in-command remains the only responsible for collision avoidance).
- Traffic received from mobile network or a connected hardware receiver may be forwarded to other apps (Airmate Premium required)
- Improved display for Flight Information Sectors (FIS)
- Fix a loading issue for some IFR approaches where legs may be loaded in duplicate.
- Fix an issue in the downloading of Airmate data for Dynon SkyView USB drive programming affecting subscribers in the USA region
- Thousands of Airmate airport diagrams now available in the USA for airfields without FAA diagrams (for information only).
- Fix display issues on iPhone 14 and 15 devices
- Fix an issue in the Airmate Pro option management that was sometimes incorrectly disabled, conversion of Airmate Pro to Airmate Premium.
- Miscellaneous other improvements.
- Fix various other issues and crashes.
- Include a worldwide aeronautical database at cycle 2404 (April 18th, 2024), automatically updated

Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5
114 Ratings

114 Ratings

Gospelflyer ,

Awesome!

With a lapsed ppl, I am looking to return to aviation. Technology has come a long way since I first learnt to fly. Having used Sky Demon light for a while I was looking for something simple to use with flight sim with a view of using it real world. I wanted to find software that would display the aircrafts position in the sim on my iPad. With the help of a programme called Xmapsy I am able to do it. I am blown away at the features of Airmate. It is everything & so much more that I could have ever wanted for simulated & one day real world use. I fully commend the Airmate team for their ethos & I would recommend this software to anybody.

Developer Response ,

Many thanks for your great review! We are delighted to see how much you enjoy Airmate and are glad you find it useful for first flight simulation and then hopefully real flight. Your praise is enticing us to work even harder to bring you new features, look our for the next release that will offer synthetic vision, new route editor and SID/STAR loading. Happy landings!

MickPeak ,

Great app with some cool features

This version is a great improvement on the previous one, especially in the area of flight playback. Being a student pilot I am keen to see how my actual route compared to my planned one and this does that very nicely. It would be good to have speed controls on playback so that a slower playback could be made. In the air it works okay although I find the map slow to update so it is not really very usable for location confirmation. Due to various lockdowns I’ve not used it as much as I’d like and being a student have a lot more to worry about but hopefully as I gain experience it will be something I can use more.

Developer Response ,

Many thanks for your great review. You could count on us to continue to improve Airmate to bring you the best user experience of flight planning apps. We will take into account your suggestions and add the speed control on playback of previous flights. The app should update your aircraft location very quickly, if you feel the update is slow please check the following: a) check the device is positioned to get good GPS coverage, you could check the GPS quality on the navigation panel and by clicking on the antenna symbol; b) location updates are received when there are significant changes, so a very slow taxi speed the updates are less frequent; c) you should use either an iPhone or an iPad with embedded GPS (iPAD without Cellular have no GPS), or if you use an iPad without GPS add an external GPS. Happy landings!

Contrabassoon ,

Didn't realise how comprehensive this app was!!

I fly flight sim and try to do it by the book. This app is a wonderful resource for maps, diagrams, ILS details, etc. It's also free which is a big bonus for me. Thank you.

Developer Response ,

We thank your for your great 5 star review! We will continue to bring new features to the app, keeping it fluid and easy to use. Wishing you a very happy new year and great flying with Airmate.

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