PassagePlus 1.4.2 review

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PassagePlus is a passage planning and navigation application aimed at the leisure sailing market and is intended for the day/weekend coastal sailor.

License: Demo
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 3442K
Developer: Wind Vector Ltd.
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Price: $70.00
Updated: 12 Jan 2007
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PassagePlus is a passage planning and navigation application aimed at the leisure sailing market and is intended for the day/weekend coastal sailor. It uses the UK Hydrographic Office's ARCS charts for this purpose.

It has an uncluttered interface usable on a small laptop like a 12-inch iBook and a feature set restricted to those things that might be used frequently by this kind of user.

Limitations:
Until you purchase a serial number it operates in demo mode, which means that it can only open the five demo charts that you can also download here. This should nevertheless give you a good idea of most of the features. The demo charts are fully-featured ARCS charts, but they are out of date and should not be used for actual navigation. For this reason GPS operation is disabled in demo mode.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later on PPC Macs and Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later on Intel Macs.

What's New:
Improvements to archived tracks, recent charts menus and undo. Various fixes and other minor improvements.
NOTE: Users using the demo charts should download the revised set (uploaded to the site on 8 September 2006) if they have not already done so. This is not essential but does mean that the Related Charts feature will work correctly and the yellow warning triangle in the Related Charts panel will disappear.

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