10 Must-Have Flight Planning Apps for General Aviation Pilots
You want a flight-planning stack that covers charts + weather + NOTAMs + filing + inflight situational awareness, with enough redundancy that one app or one data feed failing doesn’t corner you. This guide picks 10 must-have apps general aviation pilots actually use , then shows how to combine them into a reliable preflight-and-cockpit workflow—based on what performs day after day in real ops, training, and cross-country flying. 1. ForeFlight (EFB + planning + briefing + cockpit execution) ForeFlight earns its spot when you want one tool to plan, brief, file, and then fly the exact same plan with minimal friction. You’re getting a mature EFB that’s built around pilot workflow: route building, weather review, NOTAM awareness, airport intel, and an inflight interface that stays readable when you’re busy. It’s also the app many CFIs, flight departments, and recurrent training programs standardize around, which matters when you’re trying to share a route, review a log, or troubleshoot qui...