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Hi,
being a private pilot since 2003 I always wanted to use gps for flying. I learned flying in san diego in between of all these class bravo and the mexico border. So before my solo x-country a got a e-trex which was all right for the purpose. But after typing a set of waypoints into the e-trex my fingertips began to hurt. A year later I purchased a hp ipaq and a Bluetooth gps which I use for car navigation, too. For flying I used ozi-explorer with scanned sectional charts. Not to bad for flying, but while I get busy flying it's hard to use the little pen and the sectional maps becoming hard to read on the display. A pilot friend showed me his garmin gps. I like the way of setting my route by typing the letter-codes of airports, vor and other waypoints. But since I'm flying just about 20h a year in my varation, it's seems too expensive to me. So being a software developer I tried to build my own solution. It's a software written in .net wich makes it possible to use on any device providing .net runtime. I got a new cell-phone wich is a windows mobile phone. So I use a windows cell-phone, but it's also possible to use a pda or a tablet pc. The idea is: As a vfr pilot I plan my trips using the charts, draw my route using waypoints. Then I type these waypoints into my cell phone a have my route programmed. So I have two options: typing a letter code (KSAN or OCN), or giving coordinates like in a e-trex). Setting a route with about 5 to 10 waypoints is not big job. While flying you get these informations: - A display of your situation concerning your route in form of an HSI display (your heading, your course as an arrow and your deviation). - A Map view, where you see waypoints (airports, vor) and airspaces around you. - Numeric information about your position (coordinates), altitude and groundspeed When displaying an airfield, its not just a static symbol, you see the runway directions and length four your situation awareness. When displaying airspaces, these airspaces a displayed red when your alt is in between the airspace altitude boundaries (very helpful in southern california class bravo mess). I used it in november and it worked for me. On sunny days it's sometimes hard to see the details, but that's the same with pda solutions. Screenshots: http://62.141.38.86/Snap002.jpg http://62.141.38.86/Snap003.jpg So I would like to read your opinions. Would you like to use such a system? Since I don't monitor the group often, please add my mailadress as cc: ml2_lankenaus.de (replace _ with @) I can provide a version for testing. You would need a windows mobile 2003 (or newer) cell phone and a Bluetooth gps. It's possible to try the software with MS Flight Simulator. I used that feature for development time. To be honest, I'm planning to improve and sell the software, if I see the demand is there. Price should be between 25-50$ Regards Komischeszeichen |
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