Other audio apps

Besides the big EFB apps, there are some other audio apps worth trying. An audio-centric app called MiraCheck CoPilot brings a high-tech audio checklist to the iPad. By integrating voice controls and voice recognition, it provides a heads-up and hands-free way to run normal and emergency checklists in flight, turning your iPad into a virtual copilot.

Bose offers a free app called Connect, which works with the company’s ProFlight series of lightweight headsets. The most interesting feature here is called Music Share, which allows you to pair two ProFlight headsets to one device, so a pilot and passenger could both listen to the same audio.

Likewise, Lightspeed offers a free FlightLink app, which is compatible with all Lightspeed headsets manufactured since 2012. This allows you to record all activity over the intercom, including ATC and cockpit conversation, and playback the last two minutes of transmissions. There’s also a scratchpad tool to copy clearances as you listen.

If you fly with the newer Lightspeed Delta Zulu, there’s a separate Lightspeed App designed specifically for this advanced headset. It includes the same audio recording and playback features as the original FlightLink app, but also includes CO monitoring and alerting via sensors in the headset, and allows you to customize the EQ and boost certain frequencies to help compensate for hearing loss.