Stratus Insight EFB

As a VFR pilot just back from a very long trip I can say that this app worked flawlessly, though I do recommend having another similar EFB app loaded and available. That allows for cross checking. I do like very much the ADSB icon that displays when the app is connected to the receiver and traffic is coming in. It’s easy and fast to go to the main menu to check or shut the external receiver down. I navigate using an iPhone and have very few issues with that as these apps replace $50k worth of panel instruments as far as I can determine. I have had much joy avoiding TFRs and tracking my route with plenty of safety margin. I get great weather info as well as current gas prices and NOTAMs. The traffic monitoring is terrific. The app facilitâtes down loads to the external receiver as well. Mine uses open source code. Open source is very important to me. I don’t use automatic flight plan filing, but do like the “packing” feature within the FP itself. That is a great feature since last minute weather could otherwise be overlooked. I do have privacy concerns and don’t care to see my flights made public. All airmen should be concerned about this. This app captures a lot of flight data. That’s a hidden cost for using it. Judge and plan accordingly. Never depend on just one app when in flight. Be ready to fall back to the panel and paper charts at all times.

Good application with even better potential

Not paying $9.99 per month

It used to support Stratux, now it does not!!!

I’ve used every EFB out there. It is coded tightly, isn’t designed by committee and the dev is responsive to feature requests and bug fixes.

Beware If you download this app, they will charge you for an ongoing subscription without you realizing it. There’s no way to cancel this automatic renewal! A real scam! Don’t dare download the “free” trial!

Stratus Insight is really slick and offers some incredible features for the money. However, in my limited experience utilizing the app, it seems very glitchy- freezing up as I tried to move between different screens. I run ForeFlight on the exact same iPad and have never experience these types of delays. Overall it is a terrific app, but I would not move away from ForeFlight until I’m confident that the app won’t freeze in flight. I’ll give it another try next year.

I’ve tried quite a few flight apps, most called EFBs despite the fact that most are far from an “EFB”. I like this one but it is a compromise because it lacks the ability to edit the favorites list or a method to save for a long term, a plan that one uses frequently. It is also not possible to edit a temporarily saved “favorite”, you have to name it something else. The favorites list as is, has little to no value to me. More than 20 gig, yes, more than 20 gig of storage, how can that be? Another problem I encountered is that after creating an IFR flight plan, if you try to edit airways after the fact, it draws airway lines all over the place which the only way to fix is to start over. I found myself going back to skyvector to create and file my flight plans because I know they will be correct that way. Documentation is really poor, and that is a problem in itself. I really like the price as it is reasonable, but improvements need to be made. I’m going to continue using this app as I watch for these changes. Hopefully I can edit this review as changes are made. I uninstalled this app because it is not working for me, before the trial ended, yet I was still charge the annual fee. I would like refund.

It’s written as a hybrid app with no real thought to design or user experience. It feels like a bad Android app. This isn’t something I would use in the simulator let alone as an efb. I might use the weather for flight planning purposes if it was separated, but there are better apps out there for that as well.

Overall very pleased with the product but needs some improvements. Been using for 2 weeks now and I have active FF and GP to compare to. Some comments : 1) The deal breaker — Synthetic vision screen severely lacks overlay options and is extremely glitchy. It’s hard to call this a feature when there is zero fluidness to the screen. Before you judge, I use apple mini 5 and I’ve also tried on Ipaad air - both have this major issue. 2) Needs graphical Leidos brief like FF does. Why is it that FF has full graphics like 800brief but no other product offers this? Something isn’t right with that. 3) Although you can add the approach plate, you don’t get option to add fixes to the flight plan - ie loading approaching. This is a must and needs attention to be competitive with FF/GP 4) Too many layers of menus. Menus at the top match FF (but why since imo this is the worst part of FF interface). On the lower screen there’s another menu. The lower one should be configurable, then completely delete the top one which is impossible to touch accurately on a bumpy flight. My preference is the menu method GP uses. Rich in color and highly visible in flight. 5) It would be nice to have Heading overlay arc on the plan view - the way aera796 does this (which I also own) would be amazing. No other iOS app does this and would be game changer for situational awareness. Btw the round compass rose approach is not a good solution as it clutters the screen. 6) Add HITS for full FP + loaded approach - There is no reason why any paying app should be without this feature. This coupled with approaches would be the best solution for 99% of pilots. I don’t like the auto glide slope as it does not match approach glide slope and can be very misleading. It should match the approach only when loaded. 7) Split screen similar to FF was the wrong decision. IMO the method GP uses is the best, offering small button to configure the secondary window that we want to activate. No one else comes close. 8)Vertical planning mode w weather is a valuable tool especially for icing and cloud layers.