Working To Support The EAA Young Eagles Program
Seattle Avionics
Software, Inc., the innovative aviation software company, announced
Wednesday that it's flagship product, Voyager Flight Planner, has
been selected as the official flight planner for Jared Aicher's
round-the-world project called The Eagle Flight.
Voyager's unique ability to determine the optimal route for a
flight, taking winds aloft into account prior to planning, is one
of its many innovative features not available in any other GA
flight planner. When combined with its intuitive, easy-to-use
interface and "SmartWeather" technology, it was an "easy choice for
the job" according to Aicher.
"Many children's dreams of flight are never realized due to the
high costs of operating an aircraft or a lack of local resources to
spark an interest in aviation," says Aicher (right). The goal of
The Eagle Flight is to help children around the world realize their
dreams of flight, get them into the cockpit, and register each one
as an EAA Young Eagle member.
The Eagle Flight
Project was founded by Jared Aicher, along with an international
team of experts from Canada in early 2004 with a goal to register
over 400 young aviation enthusiasts from around the world with the
Experimental Aircraft Association's (EAA)Young Eagles
Program. The Young Eagles Program, led by actor Harrison
Ford, was developed by the EAA to spark an interest in aviation
among the planet's youth and keep it alive. To date, pilots
from around the world have donated their time, money, and aircraft
to launch over one million children into the air, through this
program.
Jared's dream of sharing flying with 400 young people is
supported by such industry leaders as Dick and Burt Rutan, of
SpaceShipOne and Scaled Composite, Sir Richard Branson of Virgin
Atlantic Airways, as well as governmental state official.
Along his journey Jared will be handing out full version copies
of Voyager Flight Planner to each of the 400 young eagles he'll be
flying compliments of Seattle Avionics Software. Jared will
autograph the special edition copy, which will open a pre-built
flight plan of "The Eagle Flight" path around the country enabling
all the Young Eagles to be able to study his route on their
computers at home and even check "live" weather along the way.
"Seattle Avionics'
Voyager is flight planning software that is out of this world",
says Eagle Flight Pilot Jared Aicher. "Not only does the
software help plan our route, but it automatically downloads the
most current NOAA weather information to determine the best
altitudes based on wind speeds while taking terrain along the
entire route into account. All this happens automatically
through the convenience of your PC's existing internet
connection."