X-Planner

X-Planner is a fun and simple little flight-planner that will plot your weight and CG for any flight in a light plane. Lots of pilots take off without checking the weight and balance, and now it is FUN to do this on your iPhone before flight!

As well, you can enter your aircraft climb and cruise performance (only needed once), and the winds (each flight) and your destination (each flight) and X-Planner will give you the estimated time and fuel expense for each altitude from 3,000 to 24,000 feet. (If your plane can go that high).

Despite a reviewer not SEEING it, X-Planner DOES give weight and balance for the entire flight. To see an example of this, look at the bright red line clearly visible in screenshot #3 immediately to the left of this text. The TOP of the line is the weight and CG at the CURRENT fuel load, and the BOTTOM of the line is the weight and CG when all fuel is gone. This clearly shows you the weight and center of gravity for the entire flight.

As well, as you can see in screenshot #1 to the left of this text, X-Planner uses an extra-large keyboard to make typing very quick and easy... much more so than the small standard keyboard. The larger-than-standard keyboard is very nice for quickly entering destinations in bright sun or strong glare or weather.

As well, the interface is very efficient, with no wasted space at all. As you can see in the screenshots at left, all entries are done with nice BIG buttons to make entry VERY EASY, with the extra space packed with all the cruise, climb, and enroute data to make everything you need to know visible at-a-glance!

With the extra-large keyboard, extra-large buttons to easily click on, 100% utilized screen-space showing all the data you entered, and easily-visible bright-red center of gravity line, this app is really powerful and easy to use!

I watch people have no idea if they are in weight and balance, and have no idea what altitude to fly, all the time. Now you can be sure of your weight, balance and altitude-selection every flight! If you choose your altitude to minimize fuel-burn, then this app will pay for itself in the first half of the first flight you use it.