Xavion

Xavion

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category
price
Free (IAP)
Reviews
4.3 (98)
United States United States
Description
In flight, Xavion constantly imagines engine-failed glides to every runway in gliding range, and then shows you the safest-possible route as a Highway-In-The-Sky to take to an airport in the event of engine failure. This, finally, gives you guidance after an engine failure that is based on energy-management all the way down, where the computer does the glide-planning for you… you just fly through the hoops to the runway. Xavion also has instrument approaches in 3-D for the United States, so you can simply select any approach and then fly through the hoops to fly it!

As well, Xavion tracks other airplanes via ADS-B, and memorizes their location to track their WAKE TURBULENCE, moving the wake turbulence down and with the wind over time, showing the wake turbulence as little spiraling tornados. Finally, an App that tracks and shows you the wake turbulence of other airplanes.

As well, Xavion gets ADS-B weather if you have a portable receiver, and displays it, including the new icing, turbulence, and lightning products. Xavion also gets METARS and winds aloft from the internet if you have a WIFI or cell signal to help you plan before a flight!

Also, Xavion checks your weight and balance, and even estimates your takeoff distance and compares that to the length of the runway that you are about to take off on to warn you if the available runway length from your current location is marginal for a safe take-off.

Also, Xavion estimates time and fuel burn at all different altitudes to any destination, showing you the time and fuel burn required for each altitude enroute, so you can pick the best altitude.

Xavion, and Xavion alone in the sky, gives engine-failure guidance and wake-turbulence avoidance.

All USA VFR and IFR charts and plates are included with base subscription.

Terms of use and Privacy Policy can be found at:
http://xavion.com/xavion-privacy-policy-and-terms-of-service/

Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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Excellent and wonderful support

I recently flew from Houston to Salt Lake City. I ran Xavion alongside the IflyGPS app and really found its features to be very useful. The NEXRAD weather data was actually more accurate and easily visible than that on my G1000 and the IflyGPS. The VFR approach highway in the sky is vey helpful when flying into small mountain airports. I have also found austin to be very responsive and helpful when questions arise. I highly recommend this app. Mike Belfort

wnBProMon, Aug 15, 2022
United StatesUnited States

update size

Why is it that every other app I use updates with reasonably small data downloads, and yet this one requires 3.6 GIGABYTES ?? (the entire app)

AtpilotFri, May 13, 2022
United StatesUnited States

Great app and outstanding support from the developer

I have used Xavion while flying my Cessna 150 for a few years. The app has always worked perfectly in the cockpit and it gives me peace of mind knowing my options in the event the engine quits. I have communicated with Austin a couple of times and he has always been responsive. Most recently I had noticed a minor display issue on the new iPad mini 6 as it has a larger screen than previous models. Austin went above and beyond to resolve this, including buying a new iPad mini 6 himself to test.

Abinand RangeshFri, Nov 12, 2021
United StatesUnited States

Great application

Excellent flight application. Simple to understand and use. Absolutely love the approach guidance display feature in VFR mode and in IFR, right out of “2001 a Space Odessa”

1dhursgWed, Sep 8, 2021
United StatesUnited States

Mayday Mayday Mayday! I need vectors.

I keep watching pilots under emergencies calling for vectors. Most of the time the plane is equipped with the latest avionics, and they still had to call for vectors. Why? Because your brain can't process a lot of things under stress, and dialing the nearest airport on your GPS is not that easy. If only we had an app that could with the push of a button show me the nearest airport, calculate if I can make it there, and the glide path to a safe landing. An app that is completely independent of airplane systems. Now I can calm down, follow the Highway-in-the-Sky, and troubleshoot my problem. XAVION is the app.

Ray Mach 2Sat, Jun 5, 2021
United StatesUnited States

Innovated and well integrated App

I have a great app I have been using on Android. I got X-planes flight simulator to introduce my grandson to flying. He is getting pretty good at it with just a mouse. In the process I stumbled onto Xavion video and since it had a 30 day trial I downloaded it on my IPhone. Since it isn’t like other apps it took me a minute to really understand everything it could do. I was impressed that I could use it both in my airplane and with the X-planes simulator. I set it up on X-planes for my grandson who up to now had only flown the 15 min free demo sessions on X-planes. I set him up at the airport near his home and fight planed a 300 mile cross country to my home. He flew X-planes to my home and landed in 2 hours using Xavion hoops for navigation and let down planning. The next day I took him flying at my home airport and let him fly the real airplane with Xavion. He found his way back to the airport and had me setup for a landing. I have much more to explore but I was impressed with the integration. I will do formal weight and balance in the future, because it is the easiest and best I have seen and it provides Xavion with information to plan power off emergency landing at near by airports. I have orders an iPad because my eyes are not as good as my grandson’s and I couldn’t see some of the text well enough on the iPhone in the cockpit. This app seems to be continuously improved. And it is written by a real pilot with passion to make it work well. He has claimed the flight simulation market its X-planes and beat out all the competitors. As and aside, I will tell you the my son is a Lt. Col in the USAF and commanded an international flight training squadron. When I visited there I found there flight simulators were all based on X-planes. I also worked to Evans and Sutherland. The invented world class visual systems for flight simulators. There market is eroding because the latest gaming hardware pared with X-planes is good enough. It beats out the million dollar option in may cases.

CsimmonsCTR182Sun, Nov 29, 2020
United StatesUnited States

Great augmented situational awareness

Xavion is great once you configure and really get everything dialed in. It changes a lot each release even minor ones so you really have to keep on top of what changes occur so you know how to use it properly. I have practiced “engine out” procedures with it several times and it really does bring you to a runway but practice with it because it sometimes doesn’t bring you where you would see the runway miles before getting there if the airport area has trees or is hidden. I am considering dedicating an iPad mini to just xavion for emergency field location only. For me I am not yet willing to use it as a full efb. Excellent tool in the cockpit

JeffDBostonFri, Oct 23, 2020
United StatesUnited States
Download & Revenue
DOWNLOAD 19.2KFeb 2024Worldwide
REVENUE$1.9KFeb 2024Worldwide
download revenue
About
Bundle Id
com.LaminarAvionics.Xavion
Min Os. Version
13.0
Release Date
Wed, Nov 14, 2012
Update Date
Wed, Mar 20, 2024
Content Rating
4+
Has IMessage
No
Support Watch
No
Support Siri
No
File Size
3.32GB
Has Game Center
No
Family Sharing
Yes
Support Passbook
No
Supported Languages
English
What's New
version
3.36
updated
1 week ago
Now you can create custom FIXES as well as custom airports!
This is in the left-most NAV SETUP menu.
And remember to run Xavion on the same local network to send your custom fixes and airprots to your other devices!
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