Feb 27

GPS Software Reviews

Tag: Ramblings — Dan @ 6:00 am

After purchasing a Mio C320 personal navigation device (and loving it for the car), I’ve been testing out various mobile GPS applications which can be used for general aviation.  With each application I test, I’ll write my thoughts and review them, linked and summarized here.

If there are any programs you believe I need to try, tell me…I’m always dying to try more!  Also, if you have different experiences/opinions on what I’ve tried, by all means, let me know.

5 Responses to “GPS Software Reviews”

  1. Tim Holt says:
    July 6th, 2009 at 7:59 am

    Dan,
    Help!!
    I am a private pilot carryout more training at Kissimmee , working towards my Commercial.
    I have a HP Touchsmart folding tablet computer and want to use it whilst I am flying with moving map software and a GPS received for situational awareness.
    You seem to have done alot of research on this.
    Can you please tell me which GPS receiver I should buy and which software does the job, and how I get the aviation maps to run with it. I am trying to do this as soon as possible, so if you could get back to me soon that would be great, Thank you . P.S. I’m running Vista 64 bit operating system.

  2. Dan says:
    July 6th, 2009 at 8:04 am

    Tim,

    I didn’t do too much research on full tablet PC’s, but I do know there is a software package called “APIC” by “Approach Systems” that even has a free option that runs on tablet PC’s very well. As far as GPS receivers, any USB receiver to plug into your tablet PC should work fine for non-official (situational awareness only) GPS service. Best of luck!

  3. Neil says:
    October 1st, 2009 at 1:03 am

    Have you tried the SkyAngel software? http://fly.styli.sh/ It’s very much in beta and being discussed with the developer in the Flyer and Pprune forums. Looks good but I’ve been unable to get it working on the MIO so far – unable to get a GPS signal. You might have more luck!

  4. Dan says:
    October 1st, 2009 at 7:07 am

    This is the first I’ve heard of this software, thanks for making me aware of it! I’ll give it a shot and report back what I find out! Can you also please send over links to those two forums you mentioned? I’m not sure I’ve seen those either. Thanks! -Dan

  5. Neil says:
    October 2nd, 2009 at 12:51 pm

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