Airmate Celebrates U.S./Canadian Launch

Airmate, a free social flight planning app, is celebrating its US/Canada launch at Oshkosh At last, the aviation world experiences an internet paradigm change: Airmate is the only social flight planning and navigation app completely free for pilots.

Widely used by tens of thousands of pilots in Europe, AIRMATE is now launching in the USA and Canada during Oshkosh AirVenture event, where AIRMATE is exhibiting.

Airmate is demonstrating all features of its latest 1.17 version, including:

• moving map with worldwide aviation database updated free of charge
• free airport approach plates in US, Europe and more than 100 countries
• detailed weather briefing
• ADS-B traffic receiver support with traffic displayed on the map
• support for geo-referenced charts (US charts are planned to be geo-referenced
• soon)

"With Airmate, we are using a revolutionary internet business model now experienced everywhere," said Daniel Mavrakis, CEO of Myriel Aviation. "These days, in the US and most developed countries, aviation data is freely available from aviation authorities. This enables us to provide access to that data free of charge to pilots. Using Airmate, pilots are also able to share information with each other.

"Our app is free, because its development is funded by advertising from service suppliers, including FBOs, handlers, repair stations, restaurants," he said.

(Image provided with Airmate news release)

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