NAIPS for iPhone

[Shagpile]

edit 19Jul09 - available on app store $7.99 iTunes Store
edit 13jun09 - beta testing closed
edit 11Jul09 - Posted to app store. Expect Apple to approve it within the week. Cost $7.99

Hi all,

I've just finished developing NAIPS for apple iPhone (not full featured yet...be patient!). So far I have working:

- location briefing (with a quick common button to get frequently used locations up without typing them).
- area briefing
- location directory
- first/last light
- custom briefing (type in 2 airports, a min runway length & max distance off track and it will retrieve all weather/notams for the best 12 diverts enroute the great circle track).
- auto-login using your airservices login (which is saved).
- ability to SAVE the reports for viewing in flight mode whilst flying.
- downloads *text only* so it works super fast. From pressing the icon to load the app, then downloading weather for my top 5 airfields took 15 seconds on telstra 3g, compared with 2:30 from within safari without the ability to save. Also makes it easier to download from 15,000 ft

Future developments [or anything as requested by you guys!] I am planning:
- Submit flight plan (probably single stage only, with no ability to delete since that is technically hard).
- download a select number of charts e.g. SatPic, grid pt winds etc.
- SPFIB..although that is quite a big task and would require a lot of effort.



Currently works with iphone 2.2.1 and also works with the latest OS 3.0 beta5.


What I need: [2 things...]

1) Anybody who wants this for free to do beta testing - please send me your iPhone 40 digit UDID which you can get in iTunes by clicking on your iPhone's serial number and it changes to UDID. I also need your email address to send it to you. I can probably take only 20 or so users.

2) any feature requests that you would like? Keep in mind I dont do this as a job (im a pilot by trade) so I'm limited by time.



Would most of you guys be willing to pay a few dollars for something like this in order to compensate for the huge amount of time required and things like the $120 apple developer fee to distribute?

[tmpffisch]

Love the idea, I use my iPhone for planning too (copilot).

Will PM you with my details, happy to help. Happy to pay too.

[compressor stall]

Looks good. I'd certainly buy it for few $.

I'd love to be a tester, but have to wait until I get my iphone 3g S in a couple of weeks!

[RAAus_Pilot]

Brilliant!! A few dollars will be more than justifiable for this app. I've been waiting for this for ages!

Nice work, any time frames yet?

[Shagpile]

Sweet I didn't expect replies that quickly!

Here are some more screenshots:






Be patient on me emailing the app - I need to wait till I get a few testers and do it all at once [apple make this cumbersome]. In particular for bugs, I need locations in the custom briefing section that are not accepted by airservices so I can delete from the database (an old DAFIF database).

[twista]

fark that is so cool! go Iphone!

[Triple Captain]

How about wx radar overlay (from BOM) on FLT plan track with current GPS position?

[hogespa28]

The ability to download the ERSA entries would be a nice touch

[glekichi]

What Triple Captain said!!

[blueloo]

Can you add a boeing style nav display and full pegasus FMC....... its the only way I will ever see a GPS in a 767....





some pedant will mention this if I don't - other than OGT,U,V OR TERRAIN egpws

[Ovation]

I'd have to buy an Iphone first, but yes, I'd kick in some bucks for the App.

[Jay Bo]

Great! Maybe in the future you could add a simple flight planner where the downloaded winds could work out headings/gs/eti etc
Definately spring a few bucks for this

[SeaMoss]

Excellent!

Yeh, well done. Looks great. Sign me up.

[b_sta]

Definitely interested, sent you a PM

[JCJ]

Sent a PM, definitely interested and certainly worth a few bucks!!

[2p!ssed2drive]

Just for information there is already an App available to pilots (not as good as what you're whipping up though!)

Might be worth checking it out... it's called 'PilotWiz'

There's a free one and one you can buy. (It decodes weather aswell for the lazy)

[b_sta]

PilotWiz is more like an electronic E6B though, rather than a program that parses NAIPS data on the fly. Oh, and PilotWiz doesn't actually work when you try to grab weather for the majority of Aus airports other than the major class C ones.

[vee1-rotate]

yeah b_sta is correct...pilotwiz, aeroweather and ie6b (all of which I have purchased) are great little aviation apps, but most don't do the 1 important thing that I'd love them to do, and thats download detailed weather information for Australia.

Have sent you a PM shags...am quite confident your app will be well accepted by the pilot/iphone fraternity

[Mark1234]

definately interested, though I'm on the touch platform - might be an interesting line in the beta testing (wi-fi bridged to N95 to 3G data). PM will be forthcoming.

[Mr. Hat]

Gold.

Will have to ask the accountant about the tax deductability on it.

(i'm looking for a reson to get an iphone) Mrs Hat is going to get phone envy.