Alternatives to RocketRoute
A flight planning and filing platform with mobile apps for pilots and operators worldwide. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
RocketRoute
A flight planning and filing platform with mobile apps for pilots and operators worldwide.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as RocketRoute.
ForeFlight
An electronic flight bag app for flight planning, aviation weather, charts and airport information.
ForeFlight combines planning, weather, charts and a logbook with plans for individuals and flight departments, but its mobile app runs only on iPad and iPhone.
Garmin Pilot
Garmin's electronic flight bag app for pilots, with charts, IFR planning, aviation weather and dynamic mapping.
Garmin Pilot offers charts, IFR planning and weather on Android and iOS with close integration with Garmin avionics, and it has no free tier.
SkyDemon
VFR flight planning and GPS moving-map navigation software built around its own vector charts.
SkyDemon focuses on VFR planning and moving-map navigation with in-house vector charts for Europe, runs on Windows as well, and does not cover IFR flights.
AvPlan EFB
An electronic flight bag for flight planning and moving-map navigation, focused on Australia and New Zealand.
AvPlan EFB offers NAIPS flight plan filing and VFR and IFR charts on web, iOS and Android, but is aimed mainly at Australian and New Zealand airspace.
EasyVFR 4
A VFR flight planning and navigation app with a dynamic vector map, traffic and weather.
EasyVFR 4 adds flight plan filing, mass and balance and a free tier on Android and iOS, but it handles VFR flights only.
FlyQ EFB
An electronic flight bag for flight planning, weather briefings and navigation with 3D and augmented reality views.
FlyQ EFB offers weather-focused planning with wind and fuel-price optimised routes and 3D views, but it runs only on iOS and targets North American pilots.
AvareX
An open-source aviation charts and navigation app, a Flutter rewrite of Avare.
AvareX is free and open source and runs on desktop and mobile, but it is a smaller project with few published feature details outside its repository.
SkyVector
A free online flight planner built on aeronautical charts, with current weather and fuel prices.
SkyVector is a free browser flight planner on aeronautical charts with weather and fuel prices, needing no account for basic planning.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Stratux
Free software that turns a Raspberry Pi with USB radios into a low-cost ADS-B receiver for pilots.
Flighty
An iPhone flight tracker with live updates, delay predictions and alerts about gates and baggage.
Windy
An interactive animated weather map with wind, waves and radar forecasts from several forecast models.
Flightradar24
A live flight tracker that shows aircraft positions around the world on a map.
Little Navmap
A free open-source flight planner, moving map and airport information tool for desktop flight simulators.
