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Products
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EFISce Flight planning & GPS maps More info... |
Windows Mobile, Pocket PC 2003
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WMe6b
E6b utilitites More info... |
Windows Mobile
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Odyssey Pro
Professional pilot's logbook and hours analyser More info... |
Windows 98, 2000, XP and Vista
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Odyssey Lite Private pilot's logbook and hours analyser More info... |
Windows Mobile, Pocket PC 2003
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PalmE6b E6b utilitites More info... |
Palm
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iPlotter
Maritime passage planning and chart plotter More info... |
Windows Mobile, Pocket PC 2003
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E6b for Windows
E6b utilities |
Windows desktop
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| Admin fee £10.00 |
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WMe6bE6b utilities for Windows Mobile |
E6b flying utilities for Windows Mobile. Flight planning, weight and balance, conversions and lots more! Free trial
Reviews
EFISce comes with six standard profiles (eg C-152, C-172 and PA 28) which can serve as a basis from which to adjust your aircraft profile.
These profiles also include parameters for air speed and fuel consumption during the different phases of the flight, as well as for calculating weight and balance. Different measurements can be input each time. New types can be added without difficulty, and entering the details is a good exercise in re-reading your flight handbook.
Another handy facility allows you to enter current wind and temperature information, including at different flight heights. These can be taken from standard meteorological reports, and form the basis for further calculations.
Once aircraft and weather details have been entered, you can begin to define the route. This is a very intuitive process. First you give the route a name, and then different sections of the route can be added. Unlimited routes may be entered.
Waypoints can be located using a quick and extensive database containing all airports and navigation beacons for Europe.
The next step is to calculate fuel requirement. EFISce obligingly transfers the fuel requirement across from the flight plan and offers the option of entering reserve amounts which the pilot himself can determine. This quantity can then be compared with the quantity of fuel still left in the tanks. On the basis of this information and supplementary data about weight and placing of passengers and luggage, EFISce calculates the weight and balance for the start and landing, graphically as well as numerically.
It is in the execution of the flight that EFISce really comes into its own. When a GPS receiver is coupled to the Pocket PC, the device is transformed into a genuinely portable flight GPS.
There are two different map screens. The first screen comprises the navigation displays, compass rose and compass arc, both of which could have been plucked from the cockpit of a modern commercial aeroplane. Both show the current position of the aircraft in relation to navigational beacons and pre-determined waypoints, the planned route (and current deviation), time and distance to the next waypoint and actual groundspeed. The planned route (as defined in the planning module) is indicated by a thick pink line. The colours have been well chosen to ensure maximum visibility during the flight and the font is big enough. Zooming in and out is also possible.
Diverting to a nearby navigation beacon or airport is also possible. To do this the desired point need only be touched and fixed upon the screen.
An alternative view shows the current position in relation to an imported bitmap. Using a desktop PC it is possible to scan in or download from the internet any chosen map.
Compared with other GPS applications, EFISce is very simple to use, partly because of the decision not to include certain functions. In conclusion, EFISce is a textbook example of a user-friendly application to support the pilot during flight preparation and execution.