Thursday 26th January 2012
Interesting track logs from the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance’s EC135 based out of Henstridge over a recent two month period. The aircraft benefits from two panel-mounted especially adapted Foresight GPS units working in tandem. The navigator’s unit can be programmed with a route independently of the pilot’s unit and then sent through to the [...]
Monday 23rd January 2012
Representing anything on a chart is a complex weigh-up between making the feature sufficiently prominent, but yet not detracting from the more important features. This is very much a human issue, because it’s not just about the thickness of the lines or boldness on-screen. The way the colours you have chosen contrast with the [...]
Monday 09th January 2012
“Anyone can make moving map software, it’s easy!” exclaimed an armchair programmer and pilot on one of the flying forums a while back. I still cringe at the thought that people perhaps think developing a piece of software specifically for aviation and in which pilots trust, to a certain extent, their lives, is a simple [...]
Friday 06th January 2012
What is ABX Vector Mapping? Traditionally Airbox devices and software have used digital reproductions of charts in a format known as Raster Imaging. Pilots like them because our devices are able to show, unlike many other commercially available GPS’s, an exact copy of the paper charts they carry alongside them in the cockpit. [...]
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