Winpilot for iPhone

[Reed von Gal]

Released today. Anybody get/try it yet?

[[email protected]]

Released today? Really??
From the Winpilot Website

"Update: WinPilot for iPhone for Western USA and WinPilot for iPhone for Western Europe have been submitted to AppStore for approval!
Please subscribe to our WinPilot Facebook page for the latest news."

Submitted to the App store for approval does not mean released to public yet.

[Reed von Gal]

On Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:39:22 PM UTC-4, wrote:
> Released today? Really??
> From the Winpilot Website
>
> "Update: WinPilot for iPhone for Western USA and WinPilot for iPhone for Western Europe have been submitted to AppStore for approval!
> Please subscribe to our WinPilot Facebook page for the latest news."
>
> Submitted to the App store for approval does not mean released to public yet.

Released today. Really!

It was in the app store this morning as well as an announcement on the facebook page.

Reed

[Jim Crowhurst]

Android version?

At 03:52 20 July 2012, Reed von Gal wrote:
>On Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:39:22 PM UTC-4, wrote:
>> Released today? Really??
>> From the Winpilot Website
>>
>> "Update: WinPilot for iPhone for Western USA and WinPilot for iPhone
>for Western Europe have been submitted to AppStore for approval!
>> Please subscribe to our WinPilot Facebook page for the latest news."
>>
>> Submitted to the App store for approval does not mean released to
public
>yet.
>
>Released today. Really!
>
>It was in the app store this morning as well as an announcement on the
>facebook page.
>
>Reed
>

[Shaun McLaughlin[_2_]]

Is there a manual for it anywhere? It seems pretty intuitive, however how
do I add my own airspace/Waypoint files as the UK info only has airports
installed.

Thanks,
Shaun

At 07:57 20 July 2012, Jim Crowhurst wrote:
>Android version?
>
>At 03:52 20 July 2012, Reed von Gal wrote:
>>On Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:39:22 PM UTC-4, wrote:
>>> Released today? Really??
>>> From the Winpilot Website
>>>
>>> "Update: WinPilot for iPhone for Western USA and WinPilot for iPhone
>>for Western Europe have been submitted to AppStore for approval!
>>> Please subscribe to our WinPilot Facebook page for the latest news."
>>>
>>> Submitted to the App store for approval does not mean released to
>public
>>yet.
>>
>>Released today. Really!
>>
>>It was in the app store this morning as well as an announcement on the
>>facebook page.
>>
>>Reed
>>
>
>

[Gav Goudie[_2_]]

Jeez Jim not only did you reveal to the world that you might the
last person running Winpilot in the UK, now you are also
admitting to using Android!

;-)

GG

At 07:57 20 July 2012, Jim Crowhurst wrote:
>Android version?
>
>At 03:52 20 July 2012, Reed von Gal wrote:
>>On Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:39:22 PM UTC-4,
wrote:
>>> Released today? Really??
>>> From the Winpilot Website
>>>
>>> "Update: WinPilot for iPhone for Western USA and WinPilot
for iPhone
>>for Western Europe have been submitted to AppStore for
approval!
>>> Please subscribe to our WinPilot Facebook page for the
latest news."
>>>
>>> Submitted to the App store for approval does not mean
released to
>public
>>yet.
>>
>>Released today. Really!
>>
>>It was in the app store this morning as well as an
announcement on the
>>facebook page.
>>
>>Reed
>>
>
>

[joesimmers[_2_]]

It looks like this is only for the western USA, what about
the eastern USA will it not work for that?

[[email protected]]

Facebook seems to be a good platform for a live manual - with full interaction and feedback from the users. We have posted there a short info with a screen shot (see http://www.facebook.com/pages/WinPilot-for-iPhone-iPad/123711787682930).

How to import / export files like Turnpoints, Airspace, IGC logs?

Use the iTunes App on your desktop, select your iOS device, click Applications and then WinPilot. You will get a window with all files on your iOS device (see the screen shot below). From there, you can drag and and drop files in and out of the device.

Note that we have changed the extension of OpenAir SUA files on the iOS from .txt to .air, to make it easier to differentiate SUA files from regular text files.



On Friday, July 20, 2012 1:53:50 AM UTC-7, Shaun McLaughlin wrote:
> Is there a manual for it anywhere? It seems pretty intuitive, however how
> do I add my own airspace/Waypoint files as the UK info only has airports
> installed.
>
> Thanks,
> Shaun
>
>

[Max Kellermann]

wrote:
> Facebook seems to be a good platform for a live manual

I don't think so - unless all of your users have a Facebook account.
Are you aware that you can't read any details without being logged in?

(I don't have a Facebook account, but anyway I'm not a WinPilot user,
this is just a generic expression of my opinion)

Max

[Martin Gregorie[_5_]]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 08:31:01 +0000, Max Kellermann wrote:

> wrote:
>> Facebook seems to be a good platform for a live manual
>
> I don't think so - unless all of your users have a Facebook account. Are
> you aware that you can't read any details without being logged in?
>
> (I don't have a Facebook account, but anyway I'm not a WinPilot user,
> this is just a generic expression of my opinion)
>
Seconded.

IMO the correct place for a manual is on a website which doesn't need any
special sign-ups to access, and the correct format for the manual is
standards-compliant HTML 5 or PDF. Making it available as a downloadable
ZIP archive is also a nice touch, especially if it takes the form of a
set of HTML pages plus linked images.


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gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

[Martin Gregorie[_5_]]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:37:53 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 08:31:01 +0000, Max Kellermann wrote:
>
>> wrote:
>>> Facebook seems to be a good platform for a live manual
>>
>> I don't think so - unless all of your users have a Facebook account.
>> Are you aware that you can't read any details without being logged in?
>>
>> (I don't have a Facebook account, but anyway I'm not a WinPilot user,
>> this is just a generic expression of my opinion)
>>
> Seconded.
>
> IMO the correct place for a manual is on a website which doesn't need
> any special sign-ups to access, and the correct format for the manual is
> standards-compliant HTML 5 or PDF. Making it available as a downloadable
> ZIP archive is also a nice touch, especially if it takes the form of a
> set of HTML pages plus linked images.

I should have added - "standards-compliant" means that HTML-tidy, a
freely available HTML validation tool that is supported by W3C, reads it
without producing any error or warning messages.

Note that quite a few HTML editors and word processors which claim to
produce valid HTML don't in fact do any such thing. So, it would be a
good idea to check the first page or so of output from your chosen
writing tool with HTML-tidy before using it for the whole manual.

At a minimum you should look at the manual with several browsers before
publishing it. At a minimum you should try viewing it with FireFox, Opera
and the latest IE version since all will run in Windows machines. You
might also want to try it with Safari and Chrome since you can't dictate
your audience's choice of web browser.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

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Has anyone tried it yet and would be willing to give us a review?

Thanks