Great App, Not-So-Great Web Interface

I love this app. It is simple yet powerful, and does exactly what it advertises. I am a student pilot and I am very detail oriented. I like that I can make extremely long and detailed checklists to ensure that I don’t miss anything and to assist with my memorization techniques. I use this application before, during, and after every single flight I take. I recently used the checklist on my pre-solo check ride and the CFI was very impressed with how thorough I was.

A word of WARNING: beware of the templates. They are an excellent starting point and nothing more. As Pilot in Command it is YOUR responsibility to ensure that whatever checklist you use is accurate, complete, and safe. A couple of the templates I have used have differed from the POH, were missing critical steps, or had misinformation. I suggest you validate your checklist against the POH and common sense before using for a flight.

I dropped the first star because I found a rather serious bug in the software. I had a checklist for my C172 that had sub lists (pre-flight, before takeoff, in flight, securing). I found that as I checked off items in my pre-flight, random items in my before takeoff list were also getting checked off. The support team was very quick to get a fix back to me, and assured me that the root cause would be resolved in the next release.

I dropped the second star because the web interface needs some work. The web interface functions, but it needs some enhancements to make it truly usable. Text box data entry needs improvement -- when you click into a text box the cursor is put at the end of the text regardless of where you click. Moving items up and down on your list is very tedious as you have to move it one position at a time. The web editor is a web app sandboxed on a much larger web page. It seems as though 8 of every 10 times I intend to scroll within my list on the web, I end up scrolling the entire web page instead. This is very annoying and ends up wasting time. It would be very helpful if the web editor had its own page without any mastheads or other content.

Bottom line: this is an outstanding application that needs some refinement to make it an excellent application. Fix the bug and give the web interface some TLC and this is a 5 star application for sure. Ill be back to edit this review when the next version comes!

Thoughts for the future:
--iPad version please!
--Integrate with ForeFlight HD, possibly as an in-app purchase

BenMcMahon about ForeFlight Checklist Pro for iPhone, v2.2.2