Allows Flight Plan Filing, Without Talking To FSS

Garmin subsidiary Digital Cyclone, Inc. recently announced Pilot My-Cast by Garmin is now available for download on mobile phones.

Pilot My-Cast by Garmin includes innovative new features such as the ability to wirelessly file a flight plan, view graphical winds aloft and PIREPS, and check Area Forecasts (FA). These new services join a host of other features such as NEXRAD, METARs and TAFs displayed in text and graphic formats, moving weather maps, lightning data, SIGMETs, AIRMETs, PIREPs, visible and infrared satellite loops, textual winds aloft and more.

"Whether you’re in the car or at the office, Pilot My-Cast by Garmin provides detailed aviation weather reports so you can make educated routing decisions before you reach the hangar," said Gary Kelley, Garmin’s vice president of marketing. "You can then file your flight plan wirelessly, which can save you a tremendous amount of time."

The company states filing a flight plan with Pilot My-Cast by Garmin is quick and intuitive, and makes it possible to file a flight plan from a mobile phone without talking to the flight service station.

Pilots use the phone’s keypad to type in the flight plan data including the pilot’s name, address, aircraft identification, aircraft type, departure point, cruising altitude, route of flight, fuel on board and estimated time enroute. Pilot My-Cast by Garmin stores the most recently filed flight plan, which means pilots only need to alter information that has changed from the last time they filed. When the pilot is ready to submit the plan, a few keystrokes will automatically send the information to the DUATS provider.

Pilot My-Cast by Garmin also gives pilots access to current and predicted National Weather Service data for the current airport, destination airport or any terminal waypoint in the continental US. The newest weather feature available on Pilot My-Cast by Garmin is Area Forecasts (FA) that give general descriptions of potential hazards, air mass and frontal conditions, icing and freezing level, turbulence and low-level wind shear.

Pilot My-Cast by Garmin is available now, and will be on display at EAA AirVenture, July 23-29, 2007, in Oshkosh, WI. Customers can subscribe to Pilot My-Cast by Garmin for $9.95 per month.

FMI: www.digitalcyclone.com/pilot, www.garmin.com