Announcing WingX for the Pocket PC

Hilton,

wow, you guys sure are quick! Ok, here are some thoughts:

- Price: Much more attractive now. As you have hinted at (and I
understand you can't say it outright, but I can), some other offerings
look much more cobbled together by hobbyists. Hmm, we should all
complain some more and see what you do to the price then ;-)

- User waypoints: A big thing for me. Let's say I want to cut a close
corner around some airspace next to my home drome. I need to plan with
a waypoint I'll put right there. Also, this brings me to...

- European waypoints: Many other programs realize that it's difficult
to get a reliable source for that (Jeppesen has them, of course). So
they let users compile them and put them up for download. There's a
risk of error (really higher than Jepp?), but everybody is made aware
of that risk. At least, they have them. Some European authorities have
their airport and nav aid info on the web for free, e.g. the UK and
France.

And two more questions:

- Is there a way to factor wind into the flight planning feature?
That's pretty much a deal breaker for me. One other software I
mentioned has an option to input winds aloft for all relevant altitudes
- and the flight planning will use that accordingly. As I mentioned,
Davies' (sp?) Copilot for the Palm is one of the gold standards for PDA
flight planning, IMHO.

- How do I get the Socata TB-10 Tobago POH data to you? I could e-mail
you our POH as a PDF, but it would be in German.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

In a previous article, said:
- European waypoints: Many other programs realize that it's difficult
to get a reliable source for that (Jeppesen has them, of course). So
they let users compile them and put them up for download. There's a
risk of error (really higher than Jepp?), but everybody is made aware
of that risk. At least, they have them. Some European authorities have
their airport and nav aid info on the web for free, e.g. the UK and
France.

For the CoPilot/GPSPilot/GPX waypoint generators, I use a combination of
DAFIF data and user contributed data. I've never been able to find UK
data as anything other than a PDF file per airport, which sucks.

- and the flight planning will use that accordingly. As I mentioned,
Davies' (sp?) Copilot for the Palm is one of the gold standards for PDA

Laurie Davis

flight planning, IMHO.

BTW: If the WingX developers want, we could arrange for me to provide the
data I have in whatever format they need.

--
Paul Tomblin , not speaking for anybody
"This was, apparently, beyond her ken. So far beyond her ken that she was
well into barbie territory." - J.D. Baldwin

Paul,

There we go, the magic of Internet! I hope they get in touch with you.
Wonderful work you are doing!

Thanks for correcting me on Laurie's name. I wish the software was
available for the PocketPC.

The PDF format is indeed what I found - and yes, for this purpose, it
sucks.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

In a previous article, said:
Thanks for correcting me on Laurie's name. I wish the software was
available for the PocketPC.

You're not the only one. A guy in my flying club carries both a Palm (for
CoPilot) and an iPaq (for Anywhere Map).


--
Paul Tomblin , not speaking for anybody
Pascal - A programming language named after a man who would turn over in his
grave if he knew about it.

Paul,

So do you know if there's a way to convince Laurie? Or even an easy
technical way to port stuff like that?

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

In a previous article, said:
Paul,

So do you know if there's a way to convince Laurie? Or even an easy
technical way to port stuff like that?

Laurie is a Mac programmer. It's unlikely that he would be able to port
to wince^WPocketPC, since there is no SDK for any platform other than
Windows.


--
Paul Tomblin , not speaking for anybody
"The Americans have said ``Ni'' and they want their shrubbery"
- Harry Teasley predicts a Bush victory, 8Mar2000

Thomas Borchert wrote:

Hilton,

wow, you guys sure are quick! Ok, here are some thoughts:

- Price: Much more attractive now. As you have hinted at (and I
understand you can't say it outright, but I can), some other offerings
look much more cobbled together by hobbyists. Hmm, we should all
complain some more and see what you do to the price then ;-)

- User waypoints: A big thing for me. Let's say I want to cut a close
corner around some airspace next to my home drome. I need to plan with
a waypoint I'll put right there.

Since we are in the design phase of user waypoints for WingX, I'd like to
solicit information on how you would like to create a waypoint. We're
looking at lat-long, bearing and distance from a fix, etc. How would you
like to define your 'close corner'?


And two more questions:

- Is there a way to factor wind into the flight planning feature?

No, but there will be within a few days. If you want, I can notify you via
email once the feature has been added, QAed, and shipped.


- How do I get the Socata TB-10 Tobago POH data to you? I could e-mail
you our POH as a PDF, but it would be in German.

Please email the POH (or the URL). No-one here speaks German, but we'll see
what we can do using the POH and other sources.

BTW: I mis-spoke earlier and the current database *does* currently contain
NDBs.

Thank you for your very constructive posts.

Hilton
Hilton Software LLC
http://www.hiltonsoftware.com