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NUMBER 6: WINGSX PRO 7 WingsX Pro 7 from Hilton Software delivers sharp, high-resolution moving maps, sectionals, and approach plates, plus graphics depicting Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) – an important piece of knowledge at any time, but particularly in a presidential election year. Then there are real-time and free ADS-B weather with a compatible ADS-B In receiver working with the iPad in colorful NEXRAD graphics, airspace alerts, even high- and lowaltitude IFR charts and approach plates. WingsX Pro 7 also delivers synthetic vision graphics for an out-the-cockpit-window view of the world ahead – and with terrain-alerting functions. And the app turns the iPad into a passive radar altimeter to help guide the pilot to the ground on those tough approaches. Prices start at $99.99, not including any accessory hardware needed to make all the functions, well, functional.
WingsX Pro 7 Screen Shots
http://www.hiltonsoftware.com/sportys/WingXPro7.html
“WingsX Pro 7 also delivers synthetic vision graphics for an out-the-cockpitwindow view of the world ahead – and with terrain-alerting functions.”
NUMBER 7: iATIS APP iATIS brings into the cockpit a wealth of live, real-time and graphically helpful information, such as a graphic depiction of the wind in relationship to the runway at your arrival airport and calculating headwind and crosswind components and their impact on your aircraft performance among the 14 important data information displays. It even calculates density altitude. Each topic on the display side of the iATIS app coincides with the sequential information reported by the tower in the airport terminal area’s ATIS broadcast. This broadcast information is first entered on the data input screen which is on the obverse page of the iATIS main display. All of this is available for about $10. http://iatisapp.com/about.html
NUMBER 8: AOPA’S AIRPORTS AFD AOPA’s Airports is an Airport & Facilities Directory (AFD) app by ForeFlight, available free to members of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, and offering many handy features. Among these features, cross-platform iOS compatibility is already available and Droid compatibility is scheduled to arrive this summer. All public airports, FBO information, airport diagrams, FAA offices and contact information (and more) are available in AOPA’s Airports, and useable on the iPhone as well as the iPad. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ aopa-airports/id312173435?mt=8
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NUMBER 9: LOGBOOK PRO VERSION 3.0.0. Logbook Pro for iPad/iPhone, now in Version 3.0.0 from NC Software Inc. offers so much depth and capability that it’s somewhat baffling that it’s offered for free. This is an iPad app that includes pilot certificate records, flight times, aircraft used, and helps you maintain currency with alerts, note day versus night operations, and now supports synchronization of local and universal times records. Again, it’s free – as are updates. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/logbook-pro-flightlog-for/id410773111?mt=8
NUMBER 10: PLANEMINDER ONLINE/MOBILE APP Finally, for the light business aircraft operators, Sporty's PlaneMinder Online/Mobile App offers an aircraft-records solution to match the often smaller budgets of the onepilot/one-plane flight department. This inexpensive little $5.99 app turns the iPad into a record keeping and logbook program for the aircraft, serving up reminders of maintenance needs, scheduled inspections, AD revisits and the like. http://www.sportys.com/PilotShop/product/16994 ■
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Logbook Pro Version 3.0.0.
Aircraft Index see Page 4