Folks from Jeppesen have been strolling the grounds of EAA AirVenture this week with an iPad in hand to give demonstrations of a nifty VFR flight app with some cool capabilities and a surprising price. The subscription service costs $49 — which usually elicits the question from Oshkosh showgoers, “Per month?” Nope, that’s the price per year.
That’s half what a one-year subscription to WingX Pro7 costs and a third the price of ForeFlight Mobile Pro. You get quite a lot less capability with Jeppesen’s Mobile FlightDeck VFR app, and that’s the point. Jeppesen reasons that if you fly only VFR and don’t need IFR en route charts and approach plates, why pay for them?
