Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:09 pm
#950659
Some of you will know that NATS having been working for the past months on a project to make planning a VFR flight safer and easier.
We believe that some key functionality is essential in any such pre-flight planning tool and must include the following:
• Simple user interface
• Free at point of use
• Graphical NOTAM depiction
• Generates alerts when a planned route interacts with controlled or restricted airspace
• Generates basic Pilot’s Log
• Comprehensive VFR database
NATS have been looking hard for products that incorporate this functionality and for a way of acknowledging the clear safety benefits that any such product would bring to the GA community.
We are nearly there! Beta testing is well underway of a truly innovative and exciting tool developed by a well known and respected UK company who already specialise in VFR Flight Planning and In-flight GPS.
Watch this space for updates as we approach a launch date in time for the Easter Weekend.
In the meantime, if you feel you would like to be one of a small team of Beta testers to help in the final stages of validating the tool, then please PM me.
We believe that some key functionality is essential in any such pre-flight planning tool and must include the following:
• Simple user interface
• Free at point of use
• Graphical NOTAM depiction
• Generates alerts when a planned route interacts with controlled or restricted airspace
• Generates basic Pilot’s Log
• Comprehensive VFR database
NATS have been looking hard for products that incorporate this functionality and for a way of acknowledging the clear safety benefits that any such product would bring to the GA community.
We are nearly there! Beta testing is well underway of a truly innovative and exciting tool developed by a well known and respected UK company who already specialise in VFR Flight Planning and In-flight GPS.
Watch this space for updates as we approach a launch date in time for the Easter Weekend.
In the meantime, if you feel you would like to be one of a small team of Beta testers to help in the final stages of validating the tool, then please PM me.
Last edited by NATS GA Lead on Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Jonathan Smith
NATS General Aviation Lead
D: 01489 612645
M: 07825 503572
E: jonathan.smith@nats.co.uk
Mailbox 22, Room 2103, Sopwith Way,
Swanwick, Hampshire SO31 7AY
http://www.nats.co.uk
NATS General Aviation Lead
D: 01489 612645
M: 07825 503572
E: jonathan.smith@nats.co.uk
Mailbox 22, Room 2103, Sopwith Way,
Swanwick, Hampshire SO31 7AY
http://www.nats.co.uk