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Putting together a portable system with Symbolic Flight

Test Results: daytime flight, mounted on the left or center, even with the glare-shield, at approx. eye-level, using a finger, not a stylus on touchscreen devices:

The best laptop is the HP Envy15 with the Core-I7 processor. It will run Symbolic Flight and Google Earth and Microsoft Flight Simulator X simultaneously using less than 40% CPU.

Keep your eye on the HP iSlate, due to ship the same… Continue

Added by Paul Mace on March 2, 2010 at 10:40am — 12 Comments

3.0 Update

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

Added by Paul Mace on March 1, 2010 at 12:11pm — 4 Comments

I can't wait to get the 3.0

Kudos to Paul. Even before I've downloaded.
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Added by Equbal Kalani on February 25, 2010 at 5:58am — No Comments

Q1 Ultra question

Will Symbolic Flight Software run on the older 800 MHz Q1 Ultra or must it be the faster 1.1 MHz processor?.

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Added by Paul J. Vesely on February 23, 2010 at 2:16pm — 1 Comment

Viliv x70

Will the 1.3 ghz $599 model do the trick, or do I need to spend twice as much for the top of the line model? Continue

Added by Richard Ellis on February 23, 2010 at 8:47am — 3 Comments

Australian users

Hi Paul and everyone else... I have a Garmin GPSmap60CSX and will have to acquire display hardware (HP/iPad etc) when the time comes to be able to compare, as a laptop is a bit bulky for the cockpit...1) Can I use the Garmin for positioning and 2) Since most of the weather/3D/airspace data etc is limited to USA (the main problem with nearly all flight products) and as such is almost useless 'abroad'. (I appreciate that you have very little control over market volume/pressures) HELP! Peter Continue

Added by Peter Russell Gouws on February 22, 2010 at 5:54pm — 5 Comments

Europe

Hello there

Does work in Europe?

Thanks

Carlos

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Added by Carlos Costa on February 22, 2010 at 1:32pm — 1 Comment

Some Holiday Notes...

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

Added by Paul Mace on November 26, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

0912 Symbolic Flight Bag available to subscribers.

On Box.net. Continue

Added by Paul Mace on November 23, 2009 at 9:20am — No Comments

Swine Flu has delayed 0912 data till monday...

:( Paul Continue

Added by Paul Mace on November 19, 2009 at 3:42pm — No Comments

FAA distributed wrong charts for 0911

Some of the charts distributed by the FAA for 0911 expired in October. 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 Continue

Added by Paul Mace on November 5, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

New Windows 7 PC Operating System supported?

Is there yet a version of this product that can run under the new Windows 7 OS? Your website mentions Vista, and I realize that Windows 7 was only released a few days ago, but I would like to consider this product for my new notebook, which runs on the new OS. I'm posting this question here because my attempts to reach "service@symbolicflight.com" were undeliverable. Continue

Added by Dror Shannon on October 25, 2009 at 8:23am — 1 Comment

Symbolic Flight Bag 0911 is available for subscribers--includes European Airspace

On the box.net download site. EU airspace is now included. It is not entirely current--some is; some is 2006. This data was a project of the late Michael Meier and is an ongoing effort hosted at welt2000.de I've made the look and feel consistent with US and Canadian airspace depictions. Getting completely current data remains on the agenda, as does breaking the data down by country. As noted before...effective with 0910… Continue

Added by Paul Mace on October 21, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

baud rate

Paul, What baud rate is the XRX expected to send at the serial port? I am using a serial to usb adaptor because I do not have a serial port on my HP tablet if this makes a difference. -Jim Continue

Added by Jim on October 14, 2009 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

origin and destination

Paul, It looks like the crossing altitudes are ignored if only the origin and destinations airports are entered. (i.e. never reaches cruising altitude without intermediate waypoints) during the pre-fly option. It also seems a little weird having the plane gradually and constantly increase altitude to a waypoint to only reach the crossing altitude when it reaches that intermediate waypoint. (during pre-fly) I was going to try and establish the climb rate and manually place one or two waypoints… Continue

Added by Jim on October 13, 2009 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

Aim Point measurement

Paul, One thing I noticed about the aim point distance (to terrain) was that the aim point follows the presets (i.e. eagle eye view) So when the preset to FL100 above the current altitude is selected, the aim point follows as well. This is ok as long as the pilot keeps the perspective that the aim point is fictitious in respect to the actual aim point which remains at the current gps altitude. I am sure there is an application to see this elevated aim point but could there be an option to not h… Continue

Added by Jim on October 12, 2009 at 6:54pm — 5 Comments

Basic newbie questions

Paul, Still unable to post anything on the support forum so I'll try posting it here on the blog. As you stated in your help section, if one is not going to have an internet connection while flying then it is necessary to pre-fly the route in order to cache the data. When one pre-flys the route should one do a tour using the relatively quick "pre-fly tour" in MyPlaces or should the tour be done using "flightpath"? Touring using FlightPath goes much slower and I would presume would be caching h… Continue

Added by Bruce Andrews on October 9, 2009 at 7:07pm — 3 Comments

XRX

Paul, I purchased a different serial to usb interface . Now the computer can see the information if I select profile 2. The newest software allows 3 selections: profile 1, profile 2, Garmin, and of course none (off) I did see the list fill in a contact one time with the profile 2 selected but now it just sends a series of numbers into the info box ( i.e. 115.0.0.0.0.115.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.115) over and over again. Is this raw data supposed to be visible in the info box? It looks like at lea… Continue

Added by Jim on October 5, 2009 at 9:48pm — 5 Comments

1.66 GHz Atoms are the baseline netbook.

Let me be be clear: anything less than an Atom N27X, 1.66 GHz machine is below the lower limit for Symbolic Flight 2.x version. 1.1GHZ Atom-based machines are completely unacceptable--see my comments on putting together a system. The 1.33 GHz Intel n5xx Atom's are a quick hack on Intel's part to reduce power consumption in netbooks at the expense of processing power. That would be OK if the… Continue

Added by Paul Mace on October 5, 2009 at 11:12am — 1 Comment

sectional info

Paul, Nothing seems to happen when I activate the sectional selection. Do I have the downloads in the correct folder? -Jim Continue

Added by Jim on October 2, 2009 at 10:15pm — 6 Comments

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