AviatorCalc

AviatorCalc is flight planning software which runs on popular mobile devices such as mobile phones or Personal Digital Assistants (PDA). It is primarily intended for use by general aviation pilots. It emulates the popular E6B Mechanical Flight computer used by both private and professional pilots alike.

It has some 24 flight planning functions. These include Flight Plans and Waypoint database, Rhumbline Calculator, Heading and Ground speed, Crosswind, Endurance, Mach number and True Airspeed (TAS), Density altitude and Pressure altitude, Weight and balance, Fuel calculations, Speeds and Distances, Holding pattern calculator, Critical point and Point of no return, Course Corrections.

An AviatorCalc flight plan May Be e-mailed from the mobile phone with an internet connection to any legitamate email address where it can then be printed or displayed. The email contains attachments with the flight plan in both text and Adobe PDF formatted output.

Pilots are also able to download current weather information via the internet in the form of a Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) and Aviation Routine Weather Report(METAR). The weather information comes from the NOAA web site.

AviatorCalc is written in Java Platform, Micro EDition (Java ME) and runs on devices which support the MIDP 2.0 and CLDC 1.0 standards.

External links

• [AviatorCalc web site http://www.aviatorcalc.com]