StarPilot Positive Reviews

StarPilot App User Positive Comments 2024

StarPilot app received 10 positive comments and reviews by users. Can you share your positive thoughts about starpilot?

StarPilot for Positive User Reviews

✓ Star PilotA remarkably comprehensive app. V impressive and saves a fortune on almanacs and tables!.CuttlefisherVersion: 1.16

✓ Great Professional toolThe Starpilot iphone/ipod program is a well made celestial navigation application for the professional mariner. I have made a number of sea passages using the app for iphone and have found it very useful, well designed, and fun to use. No matter what your level of involvement is with celestial navigation (C-Nav), from just doing a few azimuths or amplitudes to check your vessel's compass to doing full days worth of celestial navigation, this program has it all covered. For me it puts the fun back into C-nav by removing almost all of the tedious number crunching and calculation errors (human) that can go along with using the publications and I have found the results to be highly accurate. I do not recommend that someone preparing for professional testing/licensing use this program as the sole means of learning Celestial Navigation. For that there is no substitute for learning to use the publications in this situation. Though, it could be used as a way to check your work. One advantage I can see this App would have onboard a small vessel is the precious space saved by the reduction of publications needed to do C-Nav. Another advantage that using this app on an iphone or ipod touch has is that the device is backlit so you can do your calculation on a dimly lit bridge or chartroom without having to hold a flashlight to see your work, ruining your night vision. The program is well designed and layed out. But, Don’t be fooled though, it will take some time to learn your way around and get your bearings. But, I would think this would be expected based on the complexity of c-nav and the number is different uses the program has. After playing around with it a bit and taking a few sights most people should have no problem with it. Also the manual is built into the program under the “help” option. The creator of this app seems to be very passionate about his product. I wrote to him to make a suggestion about the Starpilot program and within minutes of hitting the send button I had a reply from him. I strongly recommend this app..PromarPTVersion: 1.17

✓ Celestial Navigation for the 21st century!Let me say from the outset that this is a glowing review. Starpilot truely is a comprehensive navigational tool. From the simple task of keeping track of your DR position, through route planning, sight planning and on up to graphically analysing a series of sights to increase accuracy and doing the involved maths for a lunar distance, starpilot can handle it all. In true iphone fashion it manages this variety of tasks very intuitively and without fuss. Make no mistake, this is not a toy! This is a serious and honest tool for today's celestial navigator. I would recommend starpilot to people learning to navigate by the heavens as a check on their maths, I would recommend starpilot to occassional or 'emergency' celestial navigators who may go a bit rusty though not using the skills enough to keep them fresh. I would heartily recommend starpilot to people who prefer to leave the GPS at home or in the locker because that is what makes them smile inside. I would also recommend it to armchair sailors who enjoy learning about the way things were once done and want to simply associate themselves with the historical wonder of the whole process. Did I say that I like this app? : ).Mikey FloydVersion: 1.15

✓ ICloud SyncingOverall great tool. Would be great if you could sync the Sight Archive to the cloud so that sights entered on iPhone could be accessed from iPad or vice versa..ACN1Version: 3.0.4

✓ Wow! What a program!This app is brilliant! It will save me so much time when setting up exercises for my nav students..WeazelageVersion: 1.15

✓ Starpilot on Antarctic VoyageThe Star Pilot package is absolutely fantastic. I have had the good fortune to complete two voyages across the South Atlantic, the first in the yacht Pelagic Australis and the second via Antarctica in the three masted barque Europa, both were hugely enjoyable voyages. Throughout both voyages I took sun, moon and star sights whenever possible, instead of dreading getting out all the tables I had a position within minutes of taking the final sight thanks entirely to the Star Pilot software installed on a Ti 89. This has huge advantages over a laptop as the skipper does mind if you leave it around the chart table and it is much easier to keep safe and dry. The satisfaction of consistently getting positions within 10 miles of the GPS is very satisfying but on a two month voyage there is also a great deal of pleasure to be gained in planning the star sights each day and entering the results in the log, it is a great way to learn more about the our universe. There are other navigational calcs as well and even though I don't need the rhum line course from Cowes to Lymington I still take the Star Pilot on my coastal cruises. Excellent piece of kit. Many thanks, Ken Barker.SailomaticVersion: 1.16

✓ Only navigation app you needWith this app and a sextant you can go anywhere. Learning how to use it takes some time but there are helpfull utube videos. Even if you flunked your astro course you can become an ace navigator with this app..Smitzy7Version: 1.20

✓ GreatI havent learnt cellesttrial navigation however i can do compass errors, this has proven to be very useful and makes everything simpler, probably not relevant as im a cadet and taking short cuts is not great for exams, but if your name is dexter and your urrently on the ever sigma , you should get it !!.WazzzaaaaaVersion: 1.16

✓ Waiting for any updatesI'm using Starpilot for taking gyro errors and position fixing frequently. It's giving a very precise figures and very reliable and can be used for navigation on big vessels. I'm recommending this app for all navigators, at the moment it's the best one. But it will be great to have a features such as : printing of determined position by dead reckoning and observed position. At least possibility to save it and then to print manually from album or whatever. Also will be nice to have an option to take a position and time fix automatically by pushbutton on taking a sight! A little improvement in a drawing of chart mercator's scale and observed position will be nice(sometimes very hard to read something there and not a perfect tool for zooming). Will be nice to include possibility of reviewing of daily Almanac and associated pages for manual calculations(useful for practical navigators for improving skills). Thanks, and waiting for updates! If will be any improvements I'll recomend and spread between many of my iPhone-users and navigators this great application! Good luck!.Oleg OdzemokVersion: 1.17

✓ Just AMAZING!!This is the app that I've recommend for all mariners! No more manual methods!! Just easy way... Thanks.!!.VnzlPDVSAVersion: 1.17