Software for flight planning????

I attended the NW Aviation Conference and Trade Show in Puyallup, WA, on
Feb 25 and watched an EXTENSIVE demo of the Voyager software by Seattle
Avionics. In the demo, I quizzed them in such a way that they planned
my route home from 1S0-HIO-SLE twice, using separate routings and
features. I was sufficiently impressed to purchase the product with an
update subscription for special show price of about $200 (US). Normal
price would be about $250 for the same package. I purchased it because
of their willingness to show me the product thoroughly, the feature sets
offered by the software, and the price. I would not have necessarily
purchased anything this expensive had I not been able to play with it
like I had. They do offer a free trial period to use the software. I
think it was 10 days or something like that. Fully functional.

http://www.seattleavionics.com

Disclaimer: I have no relationship with Seattle Avionics, other than
having the experience shown above at the NWAC&TS in Puyallup. As with
everything, YMMV.

Chris G.
PP-ASEL
Salem, Oregon

Prop wrote:
I have been researching different types of flight planning software. I guess the 2 main types are web based like aeroplanner.com and computer based like jeppesen flitestar. I would like a good computer based flight planning but don't know what to go with. I will say I have a subscription with aeroplanner. I don't like how long it takes to view maps. I would like the ability to easily add a point, and I like it to automatically suggest a route.


what all do you guys use?

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"Chris G." wrote in message
reenews.net...
I attended the NW Aviation Conference and Trade Show in Puyallup, WA, on
Feb 25 and watched an EXTENSIVE demo of the Voyager software by Seattle
Avionics. In the demo, I quizzed them in such a way that they planned
my route home from 1S0-HIO-SLE twice, using separate routings and
features. I was sufficiently impressed to purchase the product with an
update subscription for special show price of about $200 (US). Normal
price would be about $250 for the same package. I purchased it because
of their willingness to show me the product thoroughly, the feature sets
offered by the software, and the price. I would not have necessarily
purchased anything this expensive had I not been able to play with it
like I had. They do offer a free trial period to use the software. I
think it was 10 days or something like that. Fully functional.

http://www.seattleavionics.com

Disclaimer: I have no relationship with Seattle Avionics, other than
having the experience shown above at the NWAC&TS in Puyallup. As with
everything, YMMV.

You might be quite disappointed with the performance you get away from the
show site (I'm assuming they had a T-1 or better connection at the
convention site) as some have noted it's performance can overwhelm even the
biggest and bestest PCs along with Cable or DSL.

I've installed it and messed with it quite a bit on my home system and
have had no real problems. That's not to say I wouldn't buy the Jepp
Flightstar, because I would if it was less expensive or I was richer.
(neither are the case

Chris


Matt Barrow wrote:
"Chris G." wrote in message
reenews.net...
I attended the NW Aviation Conference and Trade Show in Puyallup, WA, on
Feb 25 and watched an EXTENSIVE demo of the Voyager software by Seattle
Avionics. In the demo, I quizzed them in such a way that they planned
my route home from 1S0-HIO-SLE twice, using separate routings and
features. I was sufficiently impressed to purchase the product with an
update subscription for special show price of about $200 (US). Normal
price would be about $250 for the same package. I purchased it because
of their willingness to show me the product thoroughly, the feature sets
offered by the software, and the price. I would not have necessarily
purchased anything this expensive had I not been able to play with it
like I had. They do offer a free trial period to use the software. I
think it was 10 days or something like that. Fully functional.

http://www.seattleavionics.com

Disclaimer: I have no relationship with Seattle Avionics, other than
having the experience shown above at the NWAC&TS in Puyallup. As with
everything, YMMV.

You might be quite disappointed with the performance you get away from the
show site (I'm assuming they had a T-1 or better connection at the
convention site) as some have noted it's performance can overwhelm even the
biggest and bestest PCs along with Cable or DSL.

"Chris G." wrote in message
reenews.net...
I've installed it and messed with it quite a bit on my home system and
have had no real problems. That's not to say I wouldn't buy the Jepp
Flightstar, because I would if it was less expensive or I was richer.
(neither are the case

Chris

Give this a read

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...e=source&hl=en

I have a 1.2mb DSL and an Athelon 64 3500 with 1GB of memory and Voyager
choked it to the verge of death, but I have not tried Jepp's JIFP.



Matt Barrow wrote:
"Chris G." wrote in message
reenews.net...
I attended the NW Aviation Conference and Trade Show in Puyallup, WA, on
Feb 25 and watched an EXTENSIVE demo of the Voyager software by Seattle
Avionics. In the demo, I quizzed them in such a way that they planned
my route home from 1S0-HIO-SLE twice, using separate routings and
features. I was sufficiently impressed to purchase the product with an
update subscription for special show price of about $200 (US). Normal
price would be about $250 for the same package. I purchased it because
of their willingness to show me the product thoroughly, the feature sets
offered by the software, and the price. I would not have necessarily
purchased anything this expensive had I not been able to play with it
like I had. They do offer a free trial period to use the software. I
think it was 10 days or something like that. Fully functional.

http://www.seattleavionics.com

Disclaimer: I have no relationship with Seattle Avionics, other than
having the experience shown above at the NWAC&TS in Puyallup. As with
everything, YMMV.

You might be quite disappointed with the performance you get away from
the
show site (I'm assuming they had a T-1 or better connection at the
convention site) as some have noted it's performance can overwhelm even
the
biggest and bestest PCs along with Cable or DSL.

Try AirPlan out... it isn't a processor hog. Voyager uses .NET and
eats lots of CPU cycles. AirPlan is Win32 and only the map redraws are
processor intensive, and they are fairly quick.
http://www.razorsedgesoft.com/airplan (30 day trial)