Thu, Apr 26, 2007
Upgrades SmartTaxi Runway Incursion Warning System, Adds
Animated NEXRAD Images
Hilton Software LLC
tipped ANN Wednesday to a significant upgrade to the company's
flagship WingX 2.0 offering for the Pocket PC.
The company's patent-pending SmartTaxi technology has been
upgraded and improved to display potentially life-saving warnings
at practically all public US airports. In addition, WingX 2.0 now
offers a comprehensive array of animated weather images including
NEXRAD, precipitation, storm motion, and cloud bases. WingX is also
now fully compatible and optimized for a wide range of Pocket PCs
and Pocket PCs including Windows Mobile 5.0 and VGA devices.
"Both the FAA and the NTSB have been really focused on new
in-cockpit technology to prevent runway incursions after the Comair
5191 accident," said Dr. Hilton Goldstein, company founder and CEO.
"Thousands of WingX users already have this capability and with
this latest upgrade, WingX's SmartTaxi™ technology will help
prevent runway incursions at almost all public US airports."
"The weather-related accident rate is another target of ours and
we have added animated and zoomable NEXRAD graphics, precipitation,
and storm motion graphics to WingX," Dr. Goldstein adds. "Having
weather graphics on a handheld Pocket PC or Pocket PC Phone Edition
(perhaps with a VGA screen) is a huge step-up from our competitors
who show their weather graphics on tiny cell phone screens. Our
goal has always been, and will always be, to improve aviation
safety through innovation, partnerships, and engineering
excellence."
Here is a list of improvements over the previous version of
WingX 2.0:
- Airport
Page
-
-
Runway layouts for about 18,000 US
airports
-
SmartTaxi-enabled at roughly 4,000
airports
- Weather
Images
-
- A/FD
Page
-
- Route
Page
-
- DFN
Page
-
- Document
Page
-
- GPS
Status
-
- Tools
-
WingX 2.0 is Windows
Mobile 5.0 and VGA-optimized, Internet and GPS-enabled and runs on
Pocket PC and Pocket PC Phone Edition devices running Mobile 2003
and Microsoft Mobile 5.0 devices such as the Cingular 8525, Treo
700wx, and HP iPaq.
WingX 2.0 is available for download now at the company's
website, available at the FMI link below, and can be purchased for
$129.95.
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