Beyond The Moving Map...
Flight Plan, PreFly, take off in Symbolic Flight. Combining Google Earth, FAA Data, GPS, Inertial Guidance. Synthetic Vision starts at $89
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"Another picture-perfect flight - IMC outside - VFR inside :) Symbolic Flight is just like VFR - on approach the runway you are going to land on stays in the middle of the screen (and gets bigger) as you approach it!!" -Nat S.
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Paul Mace
Symbolic Flight lets you Flight Plan and Pre-Fly your route with Google Earth on your PC before you burn a gallon of gas. Then Go Fly with your laptop or UMPC, a GPS and Google Earth.
Symbolic Flight incorporates all the features of our Flight Plan and Moving World software in a single package centered upon Google Earth. 3D terrain is augmented with satellite imagery and 3D symbolic information meaningful to pilots in the context of flight: airports, airspace, obstacles, navaids, waypoints, weather--along with Google Earth's highways, parks, golf courses and other Global Information Systems data pertinent to a pilot's maintaining situational awareness and safety of flight.
Symbolic Flight is $89 and includes a 1 year data subscription.[PC Only]
Portable Bluetooth GPS is $59
Symbolic Flight Data is $29 for a one year subscription: 13 issues.[PC, Mac and Linux]
System requirements:
Your PC must be capable of running Google Earth 5.0 with DirectX support (Check Google Earth Tools | Options | General to see if DirectX is an option.)
XP with 1 GB of memory and Vista with 2GB of memory supported.
Mac not supported...but you can run Symbolic Flight Data on a Mac.
To GoFly your GPS must be Bluetooth or USB and output NMEA. You may need Franson GPSGate for some legacy devices
Google Earth is free.Download Google Earth
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Post suggestions and questions in the Support Forum so answers can be shared...or email support@navaware.com
Blog Posts
3.0 Update
Testing nearing completion. I think I could fly the RNP RW19 DCA, or RNP RW06 Juneau in my sleep. Waypoint cycling is now precise--within a split second of Garmin.
Performance: 3.0 runs on any Windows machine with 800x600 resolution or better that will run Google Earth at no more than 85% cpu usage. That means 1.1GHz Atom based netbooks now work. So does Q1U, and Motion Computing LS800 (for a… Continue
Posted by Paul Mace on January 29, 2010 at 8:30am
Some Holiday Notes...
Two things of interest right now: we do a fair amount of our testing with Microsoft Flight Simulator X. You can do the same thing using Peter Dowson's FSUIPC and Johan Franson's GpsGate. We'll be posting a new page soon that details how to do it.
Second, we are working on full Garmin support for 3.0. But you can use Franson GpsGate to connect… Continue
Posted by Paul Mace on November 26, 2009 at 9:00am
0912 Symbolic Flight Bag available to subscribers.
Posted by Paul Mace on November 23, 2009 at 9:20am
Swine Flu has delayed 0912 data till monday...
Paul
Posted by Paul Mace on November 19, 2009 at 3:42pm
FAA distributed wrong charts for 0911
The following charts have been updated for subscribers:
Sectionals: Albuquerque, Chicago, Dawson, Hawaiian Is. Phoenix, Salt Lake City.
Terminal Area Charts: Chicago TAC, Phoenix TAC, PuertoRico-VI TAC, Salt Lake City TAC.
Paul Mace
Posted by Paul Mace on November 5, 2009 at 12:30pm
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