Hi guys,
I've been hanging around here a while now, rarely posting but all the time secretly developing a suite of software just for VFR pilots like you fine folks. It comprises flight-planning software for your home PC and in-flight GPS navigation software for your mobile phone. This software has recently reached the beta stage and if any of you would like to try it, you'd be most welcome to do so.
It's loaded with data for the UK and Ireland, and you can download data for the USA or France also if you'd rather (or if you're curious). There's a fully interactive moving map, plotting a route is as easy as clicking on consecutive waypoints and it will download and plot NOTAMs, TAFs and METARs for you automatically. You can then simply print off a PLOG with all the calculations/frequencies you need to take with you, and go.
My background: I run a successful software company and I'm also a PPL, so I did this as a "side project". It will probably become commercial software at some point, to compete with the other VFR flight-planning software out there, but for the moment while I consider it unfinished, everyone can use it for free. It certainly makes the jobs of planning and even flying easier (though I do say so myself). Naturally I'm after your feedback, so please post here giving your thoughts, or contact me through the website if you'd rather.
It's called SkyAngel and you can read more about it, and download it, here. I hope you find it useful. They say a picture is worth a thousand words so I'll try and attach a few screenshots.
