Simplates is a "Must have for the serious flight simulation enthusiast!"
About SimPlates for Flight Simulator
SimPlates for Flight Simulator is an education app developed by Dauntless Aviation.
How many times has SimPlates for Flight Simulator been downloaded?
SimPlates for Flight Simulator has been downloaded 3.3 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 0 times.
What is the rating of SimPlates for Flight Simulator?
SimPlates for Flight Simulator is rated 3.67 out of 5 stars, based on 79 ratings.
Is SimPlates for Flight Simulator free?
SimPlates for Flight Simulator costs $64.99 to download. The APK download size is 93.05 MB. The latest version available is 12.3.3. The last update was on March 28, 2025.
What are the requirements for SimPlates for Flight Simulator?
SimPlates for Flight Simulator requires Android 7.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play September 2012.
Description
SimPlates brings you the world’s largest collection of real-world IFR approach (and other) charts for the serious flight simulation enthusiast to your fingertips! SimPlates is not a flight simulator program in and of itself, but can be used as a companion on your android tablet or phone-type device concurrently with your enjoyment of your preferred computerized desktop flight simulation program to help expand the realism and excitement of the experience. SimPlates has been called "a must have for the serious flight simulator enthusiast" and "a great addition to your flight sim bag" by major flight simulation websites in independent reviews.
++THE VERSION NOW AVAILABLE HERE IS OF THE NEW 'SIMPLATES ULTRA' version which is a great leap forward in terms of plate coverage to the previous generation of SimPlates. Moreover, we have now addressed all of the known issues with the app on every Android platform that we have encountered. The app looks and works great -- we sincerely thank those early purchasers who patiently worked with us through niggles in early versions and offer a virtual kick in the behind to the one guy who wrote us a bad review rather than allowing us to promptly help him. Thank you all for the great feedback and kind words about SimPlates on simulator forums. We're glad you're enjoying the massive number of plates (way more than any other sim product has - including expensive subscription bases services) and we continue to update the plate database further with more plates still.
!!! AS SOON AS YOU GET THE APP DO A DATABASE UPDATE CHECK FROM THE MAIN MENU TO GET THE LATEST AND GREATEST !!!
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The basic way that you use SimPlates is just like pilots from those flying small Cessnas to those flying Boeing and Airbus airliners do every day. As you virtually approach an airport on your computer, bring up its corresponding plates in the SimPlates app. Use the plate as a guide in flying the approach to landing - just like a real world pilot would. SimPlates is useful for virtual pilots of many desktop flight simulation programs, including Flight Simulator (all versions including FSX, FS2004, and MS-Flight), X-Plane, and more.
While SimPlates are real-world plates, they are NOT SUITABLE FOR REAL WORLD FLIGHT OPERATIONS and MUST NOT BE USED FOR REAL WORLD FLIGHT OPERATIONS OF ANY SORT. As SimPlates is intended for flight simulation entertainment use, the plates are not kept up to date with real-world aviation changes (worldwide subscriptions for real-world current data over $2000 per year elsewhere!). However, for serious flight simulation entertainment use, the massive collection of plates represents incredible value and capability.
SimPlates includes over 70,000 real-world IFR plates, including approach plates, SIDs/STARs (Departures/Arrivals), Airport Diagrams, Approach types include ILS, VOR, VOR/DME, NDB, LLZ, SDF, GPS, TACAN, Helicopter and Visual. With so many plates, SimPlates provides very good worldwide coverage. For most countries and major airports of the world, if you are looking for a plates, SimPlates will likely have it. However, the coverage is not universal - please see http://www.dauntless-soft.com/products/simplates/airportlist.asp for the current list of inclusions.
Supplemental features include an integrated WORLDWIDE Airport/Facilities directory and a worldwide NAVAID (Navigational Aid) directory.
Simplates' friendly interface makes it easy to find exactly the plate or information you are looking for quickly. As the totality of plates exceeds a whopping 100gb, the plates themselves are not included with your initial download from the AppStore. Rather, they are downloaded on demand when you select them in the app – this generally takes only a few moments per plate, but does require you to be online. Any plates you have downloaded into SimPlates remain on your device (unless cleared) so that you can continue to use them even while offline.
The SimPlates Team SimPlates.com
Recent changes: Thank you for making SimPlates the go-to choice for serious sim pilots. The main database has been updated with plenty of new plates worldwide. Bug fixes and improvements. Happy simming!
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Comments on SimPlates for Flight Simulator for Android
★★★★★A Google User· Jan 14, 2014
Excellent App First rate from taxi to and including departure and from arrival through approach and taxi to the gate a very comprehensive set of charts. Most major airports worldwide included and a huge number of generals aviation airfields too. A 'must have' for all simmers. Charts easily accessed, good index, working well on both 7 inch and also larger format tablets.
★★★★★A Google User· Sep 20, 2012
Fantastic Are you a flight sim flyer that likes to fly correct procedures at airports around the world but find it hard to obtain the charts ? Well Simulates is the answer, what Simulates is a very neat program that will download these charts for you in next to no time, the program is stand alone so you don't need any other program to run it and will work with any Flight Simulator e.g. FS2004 to X-Plane etc., there are Over 30,000 real-world IFR plates and some VFR ones too . But that's not all as the Android version is now the new ultra edition which now has about 80,000 charts. I have used an older version of Simulates on the PC so I knew this version would be good, in fact its better than I thought it would be and so too is the customer support as I had a few problems, but these turned out to be the fault of my credit card company and not the program. One thing I would add is don't use these for any form of real world flying as the charts will be out of date but are great for flight simulators. All in all a great product that works fine on my S2 and would look even better on a tablet.
★★☆☆☆Ebele Chiemeke· Jan 10, 2016
Overpriced Just a compilation of PDFs that can sourced independently of the Internet. Actually a link, not a compilation, and these are available for free from most country's AIP websites. Nothing ingenious here. Would want a refund if possible. Thought it would be an actual android app.
★☆☆☆☆A Google User· Feb 15, 2015
Not for Nexus 7 This program doesn't work on Nexus 7. It only takes you back to the startup screen. No information is displayed at all. Also, if you have problems, it is the help within the app tells you to uninstall and re-install it. Google Play charges you each time you install it. Now I've been charged, refunded, and charged again. Now I've got $42 x 2 in charges, and it will be several days before I get a refund. I shouldn't have purchased this software. Only now do I see that another Nexus 9 user had the same issue. I hope I can get a refund. I make one purchase on Google in the past year, and it doesn't work! Then, it ties up $100 of my credit for several days. UPDATE: Google Play support is AWESOME!!! I sent a help/call request via the help. I was called back within 10 seconds. They refunded me for the two charges on this software within 1 minute. So, Simulates gets negative star review. Google gets a Double 10-star review.
★☆☆☆☆Dan R· Feb 11, 2021
Crashes constantly and if it doesn't crash, it says the files are corrupted. I should have got a refund the moment I installed the app and had problems with it
★★☆☆☆A Google User· Jul 5, 2013
No longer works after update App worked fine until last update, now won't run at all or reinstall despite complete Tablet factory reset. Dauntless support blamed Google store package, Google in turn blamed Dauntless, bottom line, I now have an App that once worked no longer works I was critical of the poor Australian charts currency at first. This has been fixed and is now a must-have simmers or aircraft spotters toolkit.
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