In "Moving-Map-Mode", the position determined by the GPS-receiver is displayed with an airplane symbol directly on the map. The map is shifted, if the position changes, so that the current position is always visible. The display can be choosen as "north up" or "heading up", which means that either the aircaft symbol or the map will rotate according to the heading direction. A configurable "heading line" can be used to show a prediction of the flown track. The lenght of this "heading line" can be configured to represent a distance or a amount of flight time. The position of the aircraft symbol can be moved out of the screen center to show more map in heading direction ("look ahead" function)

If a flight plan (route) is active, one waypoint always is the "next waypoint" and will be displayed with a larger symbol. For this waypoint the infoline shows name, distance and remaining flight time.

The current target waypoint will be switched forward automatically when it is reached, but can also be changed manually.
Picture 1: Map with route

In "Moving Map Mode" the info line on the upper screen boundary always shows the current data as course, postion, groundspeed and altitude.

Many parameters as for example the route color, heading-line color, line size, size and color of the aircraft symbol as well as units for speed, altitude and distance are user configurable.

Sky-Map automatically writes take-off and landing times with date and location to a logbook file. This can be displayed or exported to a PC for further use.

When the optional aproach charts are installed, one can switch between enroute chart and aproach chart of the next airport simply by tapping on the screen (aproach chart preview).

When reaching the area of the aproach chart it will be automatically displayed in optimal scale (zoom), so that flying the correct circuit is very easy.

In "Static Map Mode" switching to a random aproach chart is also possible by tapping on the ICAO-locator labeled buttons on each airport.
Picture 3: Approach chart

Zooming down to the airport chart is also possible (Only in countrys, for which aproach and airport charts are available)

Picture 4: Airport chart

When the penetration of another airspace is about to happen, Sky-Map displays an "Airspace Warning". For this function, Sky-Map permanently calculates the cross section of the "Heading Line" and the airspace boundarys.

If a cross section is detected and the current altitude is between the upper and lower vertical boundarys of the airspace an optical and (if choosen) acustical warning is generated.

The optical warning consists of the emphasized airspace outline, the cross section and a text displaying the airspace name and boundary altitudes.

Warnings will be generated for airspaces A, B, C, D, F, Restricted, Danger and Special (e.g. TMZ) and can be acknowledged by tapping on the text.
Picture 5: Airspace warnings

In flight relvant functions can be operated with large, finger size buttons directly on the screen.

With the function "Next 5 Airports" for example, one can create a direct route from the current position to one of the closest five airfields.

Functions like this can be activated by "tap and hold" (tapping on the screen an holding a short time) or can be user-mapped to one of the hardware keys.
Picture 6: "Next 5 Airports" function

Flight planning is done in "Static-Map-Mode", which means that the visible part of the map doesn't depend on the GPS position but can be choosen by the user.

The map can be moved around with the finger on the touchscreen or with the navigation buttons of the PDA. The range can be changed with buttons for "zoom in", zoom out" and "zoom optimal".

By tapping on an airport locator the aproach chart can be brought up (if installed).
Picture 7: Static Map Mode

Input of the flight plan (route) is possible by different means: the waypoints which form the route can be input by tapping on the map or can be choosen from a waypoint database. By tapping on the screen new points can be created or existing deleted. If a point is created within a configurable radius around a database point it automatically receives the right coodinates from the database ("snap" function). By this means Sky-Map can show the waypoint names in flight log and next waypoint display instead of pure coordinates even if the user doesn't hit the right point on input.

The waypoint database can be sorted or filtered by countrys or waypoint types and waypoints can be searched by typing in the first characters of the name or locator.

In the calculation dialog one can update the route with wind, speed and fuel consumption. Informations from the AIP/VFR can be displayed using the "AIP-info" function (Not for all countrys available).

Routes can be saved for later use. The fileformat is compatible with the Flight Planner from ifos so that routes planned on the PC can be loaded and used in Sky-Map.

As an additional support for flight planning it is possible to access the self briefing system pc_met of the DWD (german weatherforcast, also providing weather data for europe). For this purpose a mobile phone with internet access and a connection to the PDA (Irda, Bluetooth or cable) and an pc_met account (annual using fee) is needed. Then you can select your personnel choise of weather pages from a list and download them in one step. After that these pages can be shown offline with the build in pc_met browser (without continuing telephone costs).

Even graphical pc_met elements as satellite pictures and rain radar can be displayed:

Additionaly it is possible to color the German GAFOR areas directly on the map.

• Pocket-PC with PPC2002/2003 or Windows Mobile 2003
• ARM oder XScale Prozessor
• 20 MB free memory
• 256 MB memory card
• GPS with NMEA output