AOPA GO Reviews

Published by Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

About: Available exclusively to AOPA members, AOPA GO delivers essential flight
planning tools—AOPA Airports Directory, AOPA Weather and a select set of AOPA
Flight Planning features in the palm of your hand. AOPA GO is a convenient
pre-flight planning tool, allowing pilots to search the industry’s most
comprehensive airport directory; create, edit and file flight plans; and check a
diverse gallery of aviation weather charts.

Rating 3.0/5

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About AOPA GO

AOPA GO is a convenient pre-flight planning tool, allowing pilots to search the industry’s most comprehensive airport directory; create, edit and file flight plans; and check a diverse gallery of aviation weather charts.

Built on the same powerful Jeppesen flight planning engine as the AOPA Flight Planner, the app allows you create, edit, and file flight plans and get a weather briefing using CSRA DUATS or Leidos Flight Service.

Available exclusively to AOPA members, AOPA GO delivers essential flight planning tools—AOPA Airports Directory, AOPA Weather and a select set of AOPA Flight Planning features in the palm of your hand.

With information and images from Jeppesen, Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), pilots get a complete picture of the weather that could affect their flight.

Best of all, AOPA GO syncs all pilot information, aircraft profiles, flight plans, and user waypoints with the AOPA Flight Planner.

No matter if you are creating a new flight plan from scratch, or pulling up a saved route to file for flight, AOPA GO has you covered.

AOPA GO Weather is designed to provide “best of breed” aviation weather information by compiling the best sources available into one resource.

Users of the AOPA Flight Planner can also include any of their saved user-defined waypoints in a flight plan.

You can also see current and forecast weather conditions along your route of flight using the Route Weather feature.

Whether you plan your flight at your desk or on the ramp, you’re covered with AOPA.

Quickly review the METARs and TAFs closest to your location right on the main Weather screen, or choose from a gallery of national or regional weather chart images.

AOPA GO uses your device’s physical location to identify the nearest airports, heliports, and seaplane bases.

All the information you need about an airport is readily available—from communications and operations to fuel providers and other services available on the field and nearby.

Adverse weather conditions are color-coded based on severity to be more noticeable on METAR and TAF reports.

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flitetym

Nifty!

AOPAGO should be the first “go to” app for pilots' “go/no go” decision making. Why? First of all, it's a great “overview” tool, and secondly, I'd wager a bet that most of you pilots that are active run Foreflight of Garmin Pilot, anyway.

In fact, most pilots run multiple apps because there's no such thing as a “magic wand” app that solves every problem for every situation for every pilot.

Sure, for “low tier, in-the-weeds” analysis, there are more appropriate apps. But for the high-level overviews, I rank AOPAGO as top-shelf.

winahi

AOPA Go

Very difficult and not intuitive. Been experimenting for over an hour and yet to be able to load a flight plan and get associated weather. TAF not shown for all airports that have TAF’s. A TAF will be shown for an airport further away than the closest airport with TAF reporting.
Very anxious to use AOPAGO as a user friendly alternative for a full 1-800-wxbrief in areas in areas without good internet access. WX brief requires to much bandwidth to be useful in many areas. I do like the ease of getting in motion radar images. Keep working on it; could be a great and useful tool.

Sessna 135

Weather no longer working

AOPAGO has been the biggest blessing in short flight planning. Unfortunately the newest update has made many things such as weather unavailable making AOPAGO useless and unreliable. If these are fixed then I highly recommend this as a resource.

cade.s

So Close!

I really like the ease of use, the layout, and the capabilities of AOPAGO. I am having difficulty filing Flight plans, as it won’t let me enter my password for 1-800-WXBRIEF, which makes AOPAGO basically useless other than for reference purposes that I can achieve with a sectional. I can receive briefings, but when it comes time to file, an error message pops up asking me to link my account in the pilot screen. (which I have attempted) Hopefully this will be resolved soon, and I’ll actually be using AOPAGO frequently.

Jcs9780

For what it is it’s excellent

This is really intended to be a quick weather and airport reference. It does a great job at those. The flight planner is a ‘lite’ version and that’s fine too for getting a quick idea of flight times to different spots. Thanks AOPA!

steamer18f14

Stopped working

Used a few times in the past to review weather and file a flight plan. Recently app stopped working because it requires a download of current airport data, yet cannot download because the download page is blank. Please fix bugs!

AlphaPuppy

Just renewed AOPA and I am incredulous how bad this app is....

Wouldn’t let me put aircraft colors in and for that won’t save it - which means I can’t even begin flight planning...Wow. As technology goes I’m pretty hard to disappoint. But AOPAGO is a buggy piece of junk. Not worthy of the AOPA label - unless I’ve missed something over the last ten years when I was un-enrolled at AOPA....

pilotM1

Flight tools

Great app for flight planning and prep. The weather integration is good for initial information and gives pilots a good first step in preparing for flights. Thanks AOPA

RobtLCh

Fantastic !!!!

Great in every possible way, just as the organization it represents

thafuz

Not A Good App

Had AOPAGO on my smartphone iPhone 7. All features give me an error stating that an internet connection is needed. Updated and re-downloaded AOPAGO . Still doesn’t work.

Stew21sc

Thinks it’s offline

App design and use is great but half the time it thinks it’s offline. Even with full cell bars and/or good WiFi.

05NatSi

Worst app

EXTREMELY UNRELIABLE! I tap on flight plan and it never gets past loading, weather information is rarely correct either!

Drake Frobisher

Better than nothing

Crashes on “NOTAM search”.
Advertised “fee detail” page not visible.

Update the list

Where’s The Sectionals???

Are you serious I can’t view charts? Terrible app

Boater65

Not well thought out

Whoever designed this needs to go back to graphics school. Faint colored type on blue background is hard to read as is tiny 2 point gray on white. TAF times are almost invisible. Click on runways to enlarge and the end of the runway image is cut off which cuts off the all important runway number. Yikes! Doesn't happen with all airports but I found several in a few minutes. Taxiway letters are not shown! Not going to find Taxiway Charlie with AOPAGO! This is a serious omission. When looking at an airport detail screen, the back button takes you to a listing of airports instead of the one you were on. The weather graphics come up with everything requiring extra steps if all you want to check is turbulence. The oversize spinning prop is annoying. I'm surprised to find all of these issues in a matter minutes on an app from a major developer. I'll stick with the other pocket app which has none of these issues.