WingX Reviews

by Rusty Rudder

Been using this app for many years. One year ago I purchased the 3 year software package through WingX store. Hilton made no mention of the hardware upgrade that is necessary for the software. Now in order to have legal FAA current charts and airport information Hilton has advised me in order to use their App, like I have for 5 years, I must go purchase another upgraded iPad ! This upgraded software move did not happen until I was 10 months to a year into my 3 year subscription. Now, I contact Hilton to ditch their App and go purchase Foreflight and Hilton says sorry no refund from them !

Nonsense, Hilton should have advised me of this major change in their product that rendered my current Ipad useless to fly with, or, refunded part of my 3 year subscription money!!! Not happy!

by Apple Tarte

I regret to have to write this unflattering review about my experience with the wing X app. Last week I downloaded it to my iPad as I am a student pilot. I attempted to purchase a database subscription and encountered an error message only after the purchase had processed through WingX Store. I thought it was related to the subscribing email address not matching my Apple ID so correct that, purchased again, and encountered the same error message. It turns out that the moronic web developers who have written wing X did not first create a sign in or register screen, and they did not allow me to register for an account before excepting my purchase attempt. This is just crazy and unacceptable.

I had to seek A refund for the first purchase through the Apple store. I have written to Hilton, the company that is responsible for the wing X app, and will see how they respond.

In my opinion, the user interface is terrible, offensively bad in that it does not request user account creation or login before permitting access to interior screens including purchase selections.

Hopefully they will fix this. If not, there are other excellent map and navigation apps for student pilots that I would consider using instead.

by Whybotheranyway

I was a long time user(12 years). Product worked well for the price. Recently upgraded to IFR and paid a 3 year subscription. On a 1200 mile cross country my weather would not work so I called “tech support “. Told them I was available for 2 days to fix the problem before my return flight. No solution and then they quit answering the phone and my emails. After return flight with no weather, I get some emails from the owner of WingX trying to help. Still no joy. I asked for refund, no response. Do yourself a favor and use another EFB other than this app!

by Flyflh

I’ve been using this app for many years now but their development has really fallen down. After one of their major releases about a year ago, I needed to buy a new iPad to get their software to run. Also, the FAA added lightening strikes, icing, airmets, and other helpful weather info to their FIS-B broadcasts over 2 years ago I believe and this app still is not able to show that information. Are you serious? To my mind this app and Foreflight were the top EFB choices but now this app is just another also ran-ran.

by Gazman36

I have been a long time user of this app , and hope we very disappointed with the recent release as I had expected a lot more. I just received the “Subscription renewal “ notice about a week ago. I use both Wing x and the Advanced IFR add on. Once I received the renewal reminder , I decided to give ForeFlight a try. After using the 30 day trial for a Cooke or days and getting used to it , I have to say , ForeFlight is light years ahead of this app. There are a few things I like better with wing x , but that’s probably because I have used it exclusively for 6 years , but Forflight offers so much more in every area , especially in flight planning , finding IFR cleared routes automatically, filing etc. sorry , this app , I have made the switch to ForeFlight this app still just doesn’t seem to want to invest in making their product more competitive and feature based.

by Gilad. G

i’m using WingX for years for helicoptrer flying in the NY area and really liked it.
in last 5 month APP will constantly crash, i tried many things to solve it by myself including installing on a new Ipad than i find out that WingX can’t be backed up and i lost all my stored waypoints.
I informed custumer service on the problem but they did nothing to solve it.

by Aveinc123

Some time in late 2018 this app pro stopped downloading the prog charts. After repeated calls and messages, I was told there was a bug that would be fixed right after the new year. It is still not fixed and no communications from Hilton. I just renewed db subscriptions so l'll stick a little longer, but I'm not sure they are continuing to maintain the software. I hope I'm wrong as I was an original user when it first came out. I'll look for them at OSH and see what they say.

by I Fly By GPS

Just ok, used to be awesome. Customer service has taken a turn for the worse and if you e-mail or call you will get voicemail and they will cal you back in 3-7 days. They used to have the best customer service, now if you have a problem you will wait and eventually decide that maybe one of the competing apps is a better match. I made the switch to a different app but will keep WingX installed to see if they bring it around in the future.

by Desher_

It would be great to add terrain profile button to iPhone app. It exists in iPad but absent for some reason in iPhone. However the feature is very convenient to estimate terrain profile on the route when planning.

by Greg11111tttt

Downloaded the update today, and am still waiting for the TERPS alternate mins and takeoff mins to become scrollable documents. Anyone else like to see this? I’ve been asking for 3+ years.

by FlyinRyin

I have only used FltPlnGo and WingX, and there are many features of WingX I prefer. I will use this for in cockpit backup over FltPlnGo, but will use the other for flight planning purposes. The only useage issue I am having right now is finding how to turn on the breadcrumb trails. Is this even an option?

by JDC517

It’s been several years since I’ve flown and used to do all my flight planning and navigation the old school way, which is fine, but with WingX, what used to take me a few hours to do... I can now do in about one! And using WingX on my iPad makes it even easier! I can flight plan on my iPad and set it up with the synthetic vision, and then use my iPhone for the moving map with terrain overlay.

Great app!

by D-pic

Can do everything I need it to do and much more. Great customer service as well, there was an issue with the AHRS while using Stratux that I emailed them about and the kept me updated periodically until it was fixed. Now that everything works I decided to review WingX . It takes some time to learn all the features (I still don’t know them all) but it is easily a 5 star app and I highly recommend it. Thanks for supporting active military and veterans!

by Wasord

Fantastic. Provides more flight planning and flight enroute info than I will ever be able to use or need. There are other very good programs of this type out there. How, with this you’ll never need another. And their customer support if you have questions is excellent. I’m using it with Stratux ADSB In now. Interface was perfect.

by Pt135pilot

i have used WingX for several years fly often always showed t f r restrictions real time since i operate out of and in the DCA NY and KILG wilmington (biden) air space. easy to use and great for flight planning. thr IFR extra is worth it too incase your panel goes off.
even had one situation where my encoder was showing a decent while ifr, atc was alarmed and the altimiter and wass altitude read out on wing x showed my actual altitude so it was a no brainer. i have no complaints. like it a lot.

by Ifr100

This does everything for flight does and more and it’s simple and to the point and priced about west they all should be charging not what they think they can get pricing like outer company’s like for flight are doing

by Utexgrad

I have been using this app since it was on the Compaq iPaq and I absolutely love it. The wealth of features and functionality is outstanding and the support and improvements in the software let me know Hilton Software is committed to WingX and the pillows that use it. I highly recommend it.

by Im A Pilot

Everything works great. I like the 5 pages of scratch. One thing that needs a bug fix is that the ADSB traffic shows up as double. So when I’m in a congested area I see double the traffic then there really is.

by Solomonwannabe

Truly an egg outstanding electronic flight bag product! I am an instrument instructor for both ground school and flight coursework. Privately, as well as at a local organization. I am recommending this to everyone. Multiple overlays, intelligent – if sometimes counterintuitive – user interface, exceptional graphics. This makes flying easier and safer. I trust the data I am being shown. That should say all of it. One small additional item that I have not found in the program yet, the MOS. Model output statistics from the National Weather Service, that is the only thing I am still looking for here.

by Mapav1

I took a four year hiates from flying and got back into it again last year. I had the best of avionics including a Garman 430. This program is really better in many respects and Only requires an iPad and a GPS transmitter. I'm only flying vfr now but could not have done the flights I have done in the busy northeast corrider weaving my way around different air spaces. It's a great GPS and has many many other functions that I don't really use. I Love this program. thank you
PS I got my IFR currency and love using the approach plates. Especially like the Geo referencing so I can see my plane's exact position as I do an approach. I have no problems with slow redraw rate or anything else. Support has been excellent. Program has everything – flight planning, E6B, IFR and VFR for maps, approach plates, Airport information, and weather. Just got ADS-B– from Open Flight and am looking forward to using it on my iPad to display weather and other aircraft. Great program thank you