I am delighted to now be able to disclose the company that NATS have been working with to bring the UK General Aviation community a free VFR pre-flight planning tool is
SkyDemon.
SkyDemon are already known and respected throughout the community for their
SkyDemon Plan software. They have been working incredibly hard in conjunction with NATS to produce a streamlined, on-line version, free at the point of use, which delivers key functionality that we believe is essential to the safe planning and execution of a VFR flight. The name of this exciting tool is
SkyDemon Light.
Over the next few days we hope to be able to formally acknowledge and endorse this key safety functionality in SkyDemon's product and jointly declare the tool operational but in the meantime we need your help to continue our programme of Beta testing. We would like to thank our original team of Beta testers for their comments and support and now extend the offer all PPRuNe Private Flying forum members to try out and evaluate SkyDemon Light.
The link to the prototype is
www.SkyDemonLight.com/airspace.html The application will prompt you to install the Microsoft Plug-In, Silverlight on your computer but in practice this is already resident on many peoples systems.
Please post your comments and thoughts back to the thread and Tim Dawson from SkyDemon together with NATS Research & Development Team will monitor your posts to help us complete the Beta test phase and declare SkyDemon Light operational.