GlidePlan 1.1s review

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Glideplan allows the glider pilot to quickly plan and explore potential cross country flights from the desktop.

License: Demo
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 0K
Developer: GlidePlan
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Price: $98.00
Updated: 27 Sep 2006
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Glideplan allows the glider pilot to quickly plan and explore potential cross country flights from the desktop.
It uses current Sectionals for the entire US, and creates graphic overlays similar to traditional map marking techniques. GlidePlan Produces automatic contoured lines of glide elevation for intuitive planning so pilots can easily explore impact of arrival altitude and glider performance on goals or tasks.
It’s great for instructors, and students learning cross country techniques.

GlidePlan features Automatic evaluation of tasks for FAI badge compliance, with diagnostics, and outputs printed maps at Sectional scale, with automatic map legends, eliminating the need to mark up Sectionals by hand.

Here are some key features of "GlidePlan":
Allows pilot to easily visualize possible tasks and goals
Automatic evaluation of tasks for FAI badge compliance, with diagnostics
Eliminates the need to mark up Sectionals by hand
Based on FAA sourced and scanned Sectionals
Produces automatic contoured lines of glide elevation for intuitive planning
Easily explore impact of arrival altitude and glider performance on goals or tasks
Great for instructors, and students learning cross country techniques
Transparency and fully customized colors and line widths increase map legibility
Outputs printed maps at Sectional scale, with automatic map legend
Quickly update saved maps with new landouts, or eliminate dated ones
Runs on Mac OSX, or Windows 2/NT/XP
Free Sectional maps of the U.S. available on the site.

Limitations:
Printing, Saving and Exporting are diasbled in Demo.

What's New:
quick fix for a bug that caused a crash when View>15% scale was selected from the menu
selecting different scales from the 'view' menu produced the wrong scale
when loading a new map, the previous task was drawn once, prior to any redraws.

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