WingX and Jepp: Quite A Match!
This has been quite a year for Hilton Software's WingX
program... not only did they put together a truly inspired mobile
information system for pilots that easily installs on just about
any Phone/PDA powered by a Windows operating system, but it seems
that Jeppesen kinda got caught up in what they did, as well... so
much so that they have entered into an agreement to use WingX at
the core of their new mobile offerings.
Jeppesen Mobile was designed to be "the perfect solution for
pilots who demand the utmost portability in a flight planning and
pre-flight preparation tool. With fast, easy-to-use route planning,
weight & balance, the latest METARs, TAFs & TFRs, animated
weather graphics, IFR, VFR and ADIZ flight plan filing and much
more right on your phone or PDA."
Based on the Hilton Software WingX application, the introduction
of Jeppesen Mobile is designed to provide "a high-value, tightly
integrated suite of pre-flight, in-flight and post-flight functions
for your Windows mobile phone or Pocket PC." The application suite
is primarily fueled by JeppGuide airport & airport services
information; QCIP certified graphical weather images, FARs and FARs
Explained and Airport Diagrams.
Also included are the following:
- Route Planning and Filing
- DUATs Weather Briefings
- Aircraft Weight & Balance
- Animated Weather Graphics
- TFRs (Temp Flight Restrictions)
- Color-coded Text Weather
- JeppGuide Airport Directory
- Runway Layouts with SmartTaxi™
- FARs and FARs Explained
- Extensive Aircraft Library
- Airport Search Functionality
- Dynamic Flight Navigator™
- Expirations Tracking Log
- Integrated PodCast Capability
- Advanced E6B Calculator
The new Jeppesen Mobile application suite is optimized to run on
virtually all Windows Mobile 5 and Mobile 6 Devices (touch screen
and non-touch screen) and reportedly works well on all known
screen resolutions including 320x240, 240x320, 240x240, 640x480 and
480x640. Future versions for the Blackberry and Mac iPhone are
planned as well. A list of specific devices known to be suited to
this program are on the Jepp site, as well as answers to
'frequently asked questions,' and a User's Guide.
By the way... in case you want to "try before you buy," that's
totally cool with the Jepp folks. You can download a demo version
of Jeppesen Mobile software directly to your Smartphone, Pocket PC
Phone Edition or Pocket PC by visiting the link attached to this
summary. Check it out!
Aero-TV Gets Checked Out On
Jeppesen Mobile!
About Aero-TV: It's DEFINITELY Show
Time!!!!
OK, folks, here we go... we are NOW initiating the first
feature programming series for Aero-TV... we're going to take it
slow, but we're also going to try and be steady about this. DO
UNDERSTAND that this is the most complex media program we've ever
undertaken and what you're seeing is just the tip of the iceberg...
but from here on out, we will be doing our best to educate,
inform, and entertain YOU about all aspects of the exciting worlds
of aviation and aerospace.
If you've been an observer of the media and associated media
industries over the last few years, it's not hard to mistake the
fact that a massive revolution is taking place. Old sources for
news and information are falling by the wayside, having to change
their modus operandi or risk obsolescence (or extinction).
Electronic media and print media are both under the assault of
progress, and the online world has been a cornerstone for
revolutionary change.
We've been ready to go for a while, but to be honest, there's so
much more to this program than we've alluded to, and so we've been
building and planning a massive new organization within ANN. That
said, we're hiring talented new people as
fast as we can find them (a far more difficult
task than we had imagined -- REALLY good people are hard to find),
and we're brainstorming at speeds that would make a deorbiting
Space Shuttle feel like a slug. Suffice it to say that we wanted to
do this right, rather than right-now, and that the development of
this program has been the most carefully pursued undertaking we've
ever undertaken.
E-I-C Note: The
complete feature shown above is embedded in this
story, with most of the slick and useful functionality
otherwise available on the main Aero-TV site (which will be
upgraded aggressively over the next few weeks). The ability to
embed a video on another web page is but one of the hundreds
of amazing little features that we've worked hard on, for many
months now, to implement in different phases of the initial
release of Aero-TV. It is, BY NO MEANS, the only way to enjoy
unaltered Aero-TV programming on other parts of the web... as we
have extensive plans for future functionality, but this
feature allows those with an interest in a specific Aero-TV News or
Feature program to embed it on a different web site, though we
must note that we reserve the right to forbid such use for those
sites or purposes that we do not feel fit in with the proper
mission of the Aero-News Network, Inc.
Webmasters or Administrators of well-trafficked aviation or
aerospace related sites, are welcome to contact the Publisher to
start conversations on how they may be able to leverage some of the
immense power of Aero-TV programming for their sites and
constituency by clicking the I Want Aero-TV For
MY Website! link.
Coming Soon!
Aero-TV Presents An EXTENSIVE Look At All The
Wonders of the 2008 AEA Convention, Takes A FLIGHT Under GARMIN SVT
Guidance and Comes Away Amazed!, And Takes A GOOD Look At
Honeywell's KFD840 and KNS770!, Checking Out the Cirrus SR20,
Seeing What It Takes to "Compete" As An AMT, Looks At The FAA
FAASTeam Program, Updates On The Garmin 495, Flying The Piper
Matrix, Hears What's Hot At Blue Mountain Avionics, Gets Some
GREAT Rotax Lessons, Gets Updated On ALL Things Lopresti, Has A FUN
Chat With Corkey Fornof, Sees What Happens When AMTs Compete,
Checks Out The Ltest in Life-Raft Technologies, Checks Out
More "HIGH" Tech at I/ITSEC 2007, Hears From AOPA On Critical
Aviation Issues, Spills Some Juicy (and HIGHLY Detailed) Cirrus G3
Info, Scores A BUNCH of LSA Reports, and SO MUCH
MORE!!!!! Do NOT Miss Them!
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