Jeppesen Mobile Flitedeck Is A Digital Charting App For
iPad
Jeppesen introduced its Mobile FliteDeck app Thursday at
AirVenture. The app is a new aviation navigation solution for iPad.
Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck includes a representation of your
airplane's position and route overlay, as well as the ability to
view a complete library of terminal charts, airport diagrams and
Jeppesen Airway Manual text information. For the first time,
Jeppesen’s Airway Manual Service is available in fully
electronic format on a low-cost and robust platform.
In addition to paper elimination, Jeppesen says the app is
designed to enhance safety margins, reduce pilot workload and
improve operational efficiency for pilots and operations staff.
Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck is available for the general, business,
commercial and military aviation markets. “Jeppesen Mobile
FliteDeck does not rely on a ‘stitched-together’ view
of scanned enroute charts, but rather presents automated,
interactive information including data critical for enroute
operations, with details available at the touch of a finger,”
said Tim Huegel, director, Jeppesen Aviation Portfolio Management.
“Our new solution builds on the success of Jeppesen Mobile TC
for iPad and provides pilots and operators with an affordable
option to integrate digital charts in the cockpit. It greatly
improves a pilot’s situational and operational awareness and
is backed with the most accurate flight information available,
presented in a highly interactive manner through an innovative and
simple app.”
Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck streamlines flight preparation,
simplifies complex processes, eliminates labor associated with
paper revisions and reduces clutter in the cockpit. Pilots are able
to choose what information is displayed, including high or low
altitude IFR charts, airports, airways, waypoints, navaids,
airspace, terrain information, enroute and terminal communications
and operational notes. The design allows for individualized
on-screen presentation, while always remaining simple to use.
Optional "own-ship" display, available through an app setting,
provides valuable supplemental situational awareness on the moving
map. The enhanced full-color, high-quality information display with
easy search, zoom and pan, ensures the right information is
displayed at the right time. Brightness controls that exceed the
normal dimming range of iPad allow for optimal chart viewing at
night.
Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck for consumer use is available for
download at no additional charge for Jeppesen digital data
subscribers through the App Store. To use the app, customers need a
JeppView or Express JeppView subscription. Jeppesen is also
making changes to their digital data subscription to provide lower
cost and flexibility to geography.
Many operators will need to gain authorization from the FAA or
other local civil aviation authority to use Jeppesen Mobile
FliteDeck on iPad in all phases of flight, following the precedent
set earlier in 2011 for iPad as an EFB. Successful rapid
decompression testing has been completed by Jeppesen, demonstrating
the integrity of iPad for use in flight.
During questions at the Thursday morning news conference, Tim
Hugel indicated that the application would have upgrades in 2011 to
add flight planning and submission, weather, and printing. They are
also working to bring Flight Deck to Android tablet devices