Garmin also announced at EAA AirVenture 2009 in Oshkosh the release of a new iPhone App which provides Pilot MY-CAST weather briefings, flight planning and flight filing services to U.S. and Canadian-based subscribers. No need to worry about data accuracy. The Weather information comes from a direct data feed from the National Weather Service, Environment Canada, and the Federal Aviation Administration. Pilots can create routes and see the weather in relation to their planned flight path. The weather part include 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. AOPA airport directory information, and NOTAMs are also available.
Filling flight plans is now a simple matter. Pilots use their iPhone’s keypad to type in their flight plan information which includes the pilot‚Äôs name, address, aircraft identification, aircraft type, departure point, cruising altitude, route of flight, fuel on board and estimated time enroute. Pilot My-Cast 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.
The App will sells for $99.95 per year and is expected to be available on the Apple App Store in September 2009.
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