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I don't know which is more amazing--that I can listen to live ATC for hundreds of airports/ARTC regions globally via the internet, or that I can do it on my iPhone from anywhere I am.

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Been listening to Oakland Center all morning. This can be very instructive, listening when you are not trying comply and fly the airplane at the same time. I get a real sense of how the controllers change behaviors and demeanor as… Continue

The Year of the Tablet: 2010 will see hundreds of Windows 7-based competitors to the iPad. The ideal device is not available...YET! But we have a feeling 2010 based on convergence of technology and the market that 2010 is the year.



Keep your eye on the HP iSlate, due to ship the same date as the Apple iPad. Same capability and form factor--and probably same price. The iSlate is a full Windows computer… Continue

3.0 is not yet released. A total rewrite, it embodies everything we learned from the current version and a great deal more we imagined and makes it all much simpler as well as ten times faster--meaning 3.0 works snappily on older machines such as the LS800. The AOPA link happened before we were ready, so we plead patience--the trial version you download only hints at what 3.0 can do. All owners of Symbolic Flight will be upgraded to 3.0 when it releases… Continue

3.0 is in heavy testing at the moment. The biggest obstacle to release is actually paperwork: manual, patent filings. The next biggest is Garmin support.

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

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