Controller Reviews

this app 2.0 is quite embarrassing for an update to an app. There is no more list of aircraft. You have to type the aircraft type into the filter to see it now, which makes it harder to see new aircraft listings in separate categories. If you’re going to keep it like this, bring back the companies page and aircraft make page so we can find things easily.

The old version was dated, but worked. 6.0.0 is unusable on my iPad (current model iPad mini with max memory). It insist I prove I’m human (on a downloaded app where I’m clicking on the screen, why?)

I can’t read the text because it is to small and to faint (very small/thin/narrow text that appears gray, not black). I can no longer open pictures full screen and when I enlarge them, I can’t go to the next picture. If i “open” a picture, I can’t close it. I have to shut entire app down and start over. Or it crashes and does the job for me.

This version might be the foundation for something good in the future, but it wasn’t ready for release in its current form. It seems more like a bad website rather than a real app. No imagination as to what a modern aircraft sales app could be.

App provides too generic a search function, presumably for reuse with all of Sandhills apps for various equipment. It takes 10 steps to narrow down search for a few years of a particular make and model, and too many hits of the back button loses search results. If the old app felt like it was written in the aughts, this is from the 90s. It’s awful

You have to log in every time you open Controller to use the browse feature. There is no login section on Controller to it takes you to a mobile landing page that constantly glitches out. Then once you give them every piece of personal information you can imagine and finally get through the process on the website, you go back to Controller and still can’t use the browse feature. Now this app has my email, cell phone number and address and I’ll probably get all kinds of spam calls texts emails etc. and I still can’t use the stupid browse feature to look at planes. Then Controller had the audacity to ask for a rating while all that was happening so here you go!!

Controller makes it very tedious to browse. You have to constantly set and reset filters. It’s a very poor design. Your should be able to set and modify filters on the fly, without having to start from square one all over again. Controller hasn’t even been working for about a week! Getting a “Sorry something went wrong” message.

Definitely one of the worst app updates of all time. It’s impossible to overstate what a massive step backwards this was. I want to use Controller but its so d**n frustrating I close it every time after a few minutes.

The old app let you very quickly browse by manufacturer and model. Obviously thats how most people shop for planes. Now you select a broad category like “jets” and Controller just pukes every jet available at you. The process to filter takes so many clicks and if you accidentally click back too far then it starts the process over.

this app just needs to admit they blew it and go back to the old app ASAP before they destroy their business. Same goes for their web version.

They should use this as a case study in UI on what not to do when building a site or an app. Its absolutely horrendous.

Been trying to use Controller for the last week and when I click on a category of Turboprops, Jet Aircraft or Turbine helicopters it gives me an “oops error message to try again later.” The new version of Controller is an abomination compared to the original. Painful to use. Very frustrating. What worse is that whomever is responsible at this app hasn’t bothered to take the feedback that there are more 1 star reviews than every other rating. Talk about ruining a good thing.

I dislike using Controller since it will not operate in landscape mode. Even in Safari, the ipad window will sometimes revert into a permanent portrait mode. The solution is to take N numbers from this app then look at the details on aso or trade a plane. If they are not available there, I can always go to the listing agents website.

A simpler solution would be for this app to fix their app.

No idea why they made Controller way overly cumbersome. I used this app to find and buy two airplanes 6 and 3 years ago. I paid this app a that time, but won’t be a returning customer given how awful the user interface and experience is now. It’s so hard to drill down. Why did you change the interface?!? Used to love browsing Controller on my phone. Hate it now.

The old version was very user-friendly. This new update with new layout and search is horrible. For the past 3 years I’ve used Controller for 90% of my searches because it was so easy to use. That’s no longer the case. I’ve tried to work with it but I’ll just delete it from my phone for awhile and use other platforms to search. Hopefully it’ll get a major makeover in the meantime.

I am a huge proponent of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. I don’t know who at this app is in charge of app design but they should consider that saying before making changes next time. I don’t know why that is such a trend in the industry. this app was a very good app, extremely easy to use to find exactly what you wanted, quickly. But for reasons beyond my comprehension, they decided to change the way you select search criteria in the latest big update. Rather than click on the things you’re looking for from the start, you have to click on a general category, let it load, then go back into filters and scroll, open sub menus, then apply things, etc etc etc.

All they did was add extra steps to what was a simple process to begin with for no obvious reason whatsoever, besides maybe to shove payed listings down your throat. Very disappointing change. Uninstalled because I can’t stomach when people take something good and deliberately make it less user friendly.

This used to be a good tool for browsing GA aircraft. The 2.0 update made it much less user friendly.

The clickable links that previously allow you to sort by manufacturer and model have been removed. Now you have to build a search with categorized filters. It’s no longer the kind of app I can use to easily see what new listings are on the market for my favorite models.

I agree with other reviewers that Controller needs some tuning to make it more user friendly. I’ve used it for about 15 minutes now and find it more frustrating than user friendly. First, it NEEDS a screen rotation mode. There is no “Home” button to return to home after viewing a page like settings. After selecting an aircraft and having to enroll, it dumps you back to the beginning instead of where you were. The filter settings could be more refined so users could default all searches to a particular country or group of countries and then use filter settings as needed. A setting with my search preferences would be good.

Being able to view pics in landscape is a big plus but now we have to rotate back and forth. I know you know this, but make the entire app viewable in landscape mode. Pictures of planes in portrait mode don’t view well because of their design and switching back and forth is a pain.
Thanks!

While I love their printed version the digital version allows lookups and better views alongside wonderful integration to assist in many hours of solid searching and some day dreaming during your downtime.

Controller offer great selection of airplane?
But when we go back to plane selection,instead of showing the aircraft I was looking at it, it start showing the first plane on page

At some point the developer decided to upgrade Controller . Now filters don’t work when you tap them. For instance, I wanted to search for Pilatus in the turboprop category. I was shown 5 manufacturers to search and Pilatus was not among them. Their website works fine so I deleted the mobile app.

They basically ported the website into an app. It feels and functions like the webpage. Not terrible, and ever so slightly better than using a browser on mobile.

I like the new format but the save search feature isn’t working now. Every time I try to flag a plane it shuts Controller off. Very frustrating. It also has a bunch of planes in my saved search that I didn’t put in there. I was logged in and I verified my end by going to the website and my account was correct there. Just a few fixes and it will be ok.

Controller isn’t nearly as functional as previous versions. Please just ditch this version and revert to the previous version that just worked. Now the data, the items, the planes, are nested so deep inside of filters, that browsing listings is so cumbersome that I’ve already begun using other apps and services. This update is an example of when an update goes bad.