Be prepared to spend a lot of time sorting out the login requirements. The account in the app is different from your EAA account though you need to use the same email address for the app as you do for the EAA web site. And since you likely have an ID on the EAA site, you can’t use that ID here apparently. When you enter your email address and request a link, you are not done until you continue with enter your first and last name. This is an unnecessary additional step which has to be completed before the link is actually sent to you. That isn’t very clear. In the end, this app really shouldn’t require a login at all. It is just an informational type app and would be best suited for showing simply the event calendar and maps.

Unlike other reviewers I find logging in straightforward and the maps clear and easy to use. What is missing is a good search tool. Put in “Theater in the Woods” for example, and it comes up with four events for the entire week. A search by a presenter’s last name also comes up empty. Automated index tools exist to make this a snap. Adding one would make this a five-star app.

I have been going to AirVenture and using the app for the past few years since they have had an app. It has improved immensely since it first came out (which is when a lot of 1 star reviews were made). As of now I think its is very user friendly and has been super helpful to create my own personal schedule of events. It is also a great source of communication from the people who run the event because they will alert you to things like weather or a Blue Angel fly-over! Having this app definitely makes the experience at AirVenture much smoother than in the past!

Unfortunately, the app still has the same crucial flaw that it had since the beginning. The same event, like a forum presentation, which repeats multiple times, does not list all the days and times it repeats. Instead, the event is simply duplicated at different times. This makes it impossible to plan what day works in your schedule, or even find out if you have a choice. You can only, once you find an event, do a search for its title and hope the search catches them. You then would have to add them all to your schedule, and at the end go through your schedule manually to figure out a scheme that works. That there is no way to view the schedule by event, only by time and date, is such a crucial flaw in a scheduling system.