Create Flight Plans On Desktop, Download To Pocket PC

Seattle Avionics Software, Inc. and Hilton Software LLC announced Thursday that flight plans can now be shared between Seattle Avionics’ Voyager Flight Software System 3.0 and Hilton Software’s WingX Pocket PC application.

"We’re very excited to offer our joint customers the ability to create flight plans with Voyager’s SmartPlan Premier flight planning module and effortlessly transfer them to WingX on the Pocket PC for in-cockpit use," said Dr. Goldstein, CEO of Hilton Software. "Once on WingX, users can use WingX’s Dynamic Flight Navigator™ to step through each leg of the flight of the Voyager wind-optimized flight plan."

"We are delighted to enable pilots to plan their cross-country flights on Voyager and then fly that flight plan using WingX," added Goldstein.

Voyager 3.0 is the first and only integrated flight software system, comprised of individual software modules that work together to cover all aspects of flying: pre-flight planning, in-flight moving map/situational awareness, IFR procedure management, and more.  Customers choose the modules which fit their needs and they integrate together into one seamless application. Modules may be added individually or in any combination as needs change.

In addition to the new WingX support, Voyager 3.0 can export flight plans to most Garmin and Lowrance handheld GPS units, Anywhere Map from Control Vision, and Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Voyager runs on most desktop PCs, laptops and tablets running Windows XP. Seattle Avionics Software also just announced a turn-key EFB solution that combines Voyager with a Motion Computing LE 1600 or LS 800 Tablet PC, a Pharos Bluetooth GPS and an XM WX satellite weather receiver.

Gabriel Scherzer, SVP of Business Development at Seattle Avionics, said "Voyager, running on a Tablet PC, is a tremendous leap forward for in-cockpit situational awareness and safety. WingX is a perfect in-cockpit solution for Pocket PC users. With WingX, users can carry information about all US airports (AF/D), perform vital in-flight calculations and more—all on a small Pocket PC. We’re very excited to support this great product."

FMI: www.seattleavionics.com, www.hiltonsoftware.com