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Touchdown! Greaser!
WingX ended free service to CFIs June 1, 2024.
I think it’s one of those chicken-egg situations. WingX and ForeFlight ran neck and neck for several years, leapfrogging each other with new features. I made my choice over 13 years ago when they were the only two EFBs, but my impression was that their shares of the then tiny market were pretty much equal. We can only speculate why it happened but at some point FF took the market share lead and never looked back.You may be correct, but when you give the VFR product for free to anyone and the IFR product to CFIs and military for free, there not much revenue to develop new software.
The difference is primarily the marketing both companies did and FF paying a royalty to Gamin. FF is $240 for geo approach charts vs $75 for WingX. There is not 320% additional value in Foreflight.Probably means I will start using Foreflight, as that is what I recommend for students that are planning on flying professionally as it is the one employers are most likely to provide IMO.
I thought they might get a pretty good in, in the Android market for Recreational pilots, but their Android version never really caught up to the IOS version.
Brian
That’s a matter of personal preference.The difference is primarily the marketing both companies did and FF paying a royalty to Gamin. FF is $240 for geo approach charts vs $75 for WingX. There is not 320% additional value in Foreflight.
According to the Apple store, WingX has been updated to new version numbers 5 times since 2020. If you meant MAJOR updates, then having to rewrite the entire app to keep up with ipad and iphone operating system changes, then IIRC that was around 2014 or so and there were some growing pains then. However to set the record straight, they have been updating the app roughly once per year for the past 5 years (once in '20, twice in '21, once in '22, and once this past May of '24.Yep. I'm guessing the beginning of the end for a once-great app that has not had an update in years. Probably just concentrating on the AeroApp DoD version at this point.