Garmin Pilot

Garmin Pilot is the most comprehensive suite of aviation tools for Android.

Garmin Pilot - Comprehensive Aviation App for Android

"Garmin Pilot" is a comprehensive aviation application designed for general aviation and corporate pilots, providing tools for flight planning, navigation, and logging. With features like detailed weather data, interactive maps, and an electronic logbook, it enables pilots to make informed decisions from pre-flight to in-flight operations. The app's intuitive interface mirrors Garmin's advanced avionics, making it the ideal choice for aviators seeking efficiency and accuracy in their flying experience.
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App stats

By: Garmin
Rating: 2.66
(2,468)
Version: 24.12.2 (Last updated: 2024-12-16)
Creation date: 2012-03-27
Permissions
Contacts: read your contacts
Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage
Camera: take pictures and videos
Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections
Other:
  • download files without notification
  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • pair with Bluetooth devices
  • access Bluetooth settings
  • send sticky broadcast
  • change network connectivity
  • allow Wi-Fi Multicast reception
  • connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
  • full network access
  • run at startup
  • control vibration
  • prevent device from sleeping

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App summary

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Garmin Pilot is a comprehensive aviation application that allows pilots to plan, file, fly and log with ease.

Garmin Pilot is the most comprehensive suite of tools for Android designed specifically for general aviation and corporate pilots. Flight planning, filing, charts, interactive maps, weather briefing resources and navigation capabilities; it’s all included. The app’s intuitive interface mirrors those on the newest Garmin touchscreen avionics so you can go seamlessly from preflight to inflight. Plan, file, fly with Garmin Pilot.

Plan

Garmin Pilot’s powerful capabilities start with pre-flight planning, providing pilots with the most comprehensive aviation weather information to make better-informed flight decisions. Pilots can check NEXRAD radar, visible and infrared cloud imagery, METARs, TAFs, AIRMETs, SIGMETs, PIREPs, NOTAMs, winds and temperature aloft, PIREPs, TFRs and lightning data. With Garmin Pilot, data can be displayed over a VFR sectional or an IFR low or high en-route chart to visualize the weather for your route. Add text-based weather widgets and use the exclusive NavTrack feature to view weather along the planned route.

File

With Garmin Pilot, users can easily enter a flight plan. Pre-loaded forms make it quick to save and reuse data for frequently flown routes. And when the flight plan is ready, Garmin Pilot makes it simple to file, cancel or close the flight plan.

Fly

Garmin Pilot provides full en-route navigation capability on its moving map, while showing ETE, ETA, cross track error, distance to waypoint and current position.

Log

Garmin Pilot includes a comprehensive electronic logbook that syncs with flyGarmin. The logbook automatically generates entries based upon GPS data collected during the flight, tracks currency, supports manual entries, endorsements and creates reports.

Garmin Pilot. It’s the app aviators have been waiting for.

Features include:
- Charts: VFR Sectionals, low and high IFR en-route, airport diagrams and approach procedures
- Optional geo-reference Garmin FliteCharts® and Garmin SafeTaxi® show aircraft position on approach charts and taxiways
- Weather Maps: Animated radar, AIRMETs/SIGMETs, Lightning, PIREPs, METARs/TAFs, Winds Aloft, TFRs, Infrared and Visible Satellite
- Extensive text products: METARs, TAFs, Winds Aloft, PIREPs, AIRMETs, SIGMETs, Area Forecasts and NOTAMs
- Dynamic weather overlays with your route displayed on map
- AOPA Airport Directory
- Flight plan filing via Lockheed Martin and DUATS
- Comprehensive weather data direct from the National Weather Service and Environment Canada

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Good cabin management and navigational aid
  • Interface is well organized and user-friendly
  • Allows for dual OS redundancy (Android and iOS) during flights
  • Useful features like split-screen and ease of filing
  • Great colors and graphics
Cons
  • Frequent crashes and performance issues
  • Slower startup and GPS acquisition times
  • Lack of features and updates compared to iOS version
  • Integration issues with non-Garmin ADS-B hardware
  • High subscription costs without added features
Most mentioned
  • Performance issues and bugs
  • Comparison to the iOS version being superior
  • App crashes or hangs during usage
  • Limited Android support and features
  • Unreliability of weather updates and data downloads
User reviews
Nov 2024 Review Update. Great cabin management and navigational aid with many shortcomings. (1) Poor Android optimization with frequent crashes, (2) lack of updates compared to iOS: Printable Navlog was added in Dec 2023 when iOS got it Nov 2022, still unable to load instrument approach procedures, (3) scratchpad & chart annotations needs a pen/color/eraser toolbar instead of the clunky pop-out widget, (4) no S-Pen support for quickly erasing. Highly recommend getting an iPad instead.
by Michael Wong, 2024-11-27

Overall I've had a good experience with the app. Like other's have said. The startup is slow. really slow. I use an external GPS (Garmin GDL50). I haven't had any problems with that. After one of the updates this year all my plans and pilots in the app disappeared. Contacted support. they said to log and and back in again. (that fixed it). My biggest complaint would be the android version lags behind the IOS version. I"d give it more stores if they were in parity.
by Joseph Jones, 2024-07-06

Despite some issues with slow start-ups and occasional crashes, the app mostly worked fine for me for the last 10 years. But since the update about a month ago it takes extremely long time - 30+ minutes - to acquire GPS location from the internal GPS (Samsung Galaxy Tab S3) even when stationary. Even after Google Maps and other apps already show my precise location, Garmin Pilot still says "searching for satellites". Most recent January update 8.4.3 didn't fix the problem.
by Fedor K., 2024-01-26
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