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

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