NATS prepare to launch free pre-flight planning tool
Some of you will know that NATS having been working for the past months on a project to make planning a VFR flight safer and easier.
We believe that some key functionality is essential in any such pre-flight planning tool and must include the following:
• Simple user interface
• Free at point of use
• Graphical NOTAM depiction
• Generates alerts when a planned route interacts with controlled or restricted airspace
• Generates basic Pilot’s Log
• Comprehensive VFR database
NATS have been looking hard for products that incorporate this functionality and for a way of acknowledging the clear safety benefits that any such product would bring to the GA community.
We are nearly there! Beta testing is well underway of a truly innovative and exciting tool developed by a well known and respected UK company who already specialise in VFR Flight Planning and In-flight GPS.
Watch this space for updates as we approach a launch date in time for the Easter Weekend.
In the meantime, if you feel you would like to be one of a small team of Beta testers to help in the final stages of validating the tool, then please PM me.