This is pretty much the same story for me. I originally purchased a three month subscription to ForeFlight when I got my iPad. Near the end of my FF subscription WingX came out with the 30 free trial. When I tried the two programs head-to-head, WingX clearly had more bang for the buck features like their terrain database, split screen, georeferenced airport diagrams and the list goes on. Yes, FF had a neat way to drag the flight path line to add waypoints and it looked very nice sitting in my La-Z-Boy in the den, but in a bouncing airplane with less than optimum visibility, the FF fonts were much more difficult to read. As Henning said in his post it was also surprising to me too that more people didn't see how much further ahead WingX has been over FF. A couple of months ago a pilot friend of mine that uses FF and I compared the two programs side by side. He would keep saying over and over, 'I wish FF would do that' or 'I wish FF's weather overlay looked that nice.' If people would just take the time to watch the WingX videos on YouTube and spend a little time with the program I think they would love it too. Each to their own. I do think the competition between WingX, FF and Garmin makes us all winners because it pushes all three app providers to keep improving their program. Regardless of which program a person chooses to use, we all benefit from that competition.
...and you can learn a lot at home before using it in flight, using the WingX built-in flight simulator or by linking your iPad to your PC sim like this...
