What could be better than using your airborne navigation solution to navigate on the ground once you get to your destination?AirGator has acquired a best of breed driving map under license from the premier provider of street-mapping & driving software (their product drives most of the new automotive displays on 2005/2006 cars).Use the same PDA or EFB and GPS that you use in the air (you’ll need a separate memory card for the street data).
What are the new features in Version V2.1.2?
Routing
Enhanced memory management for longer distance routing *see note below
4 pre-defined map color themes
Single click POI navigation from onscreen icon (name/phone displayed if available)
Real time weather report (internet access required via LAN, BT, mobile phone, Wi-Fi, etc)
Turn-by-turn visual instructions with voice prompts
Automatic and dynamic rerouting for wrong turns
Search by city or street first, intersection, city centre, POI, favourites, and recent
POI destinations with subcategories (listed by alphabetical order, distance, or city)
Maneuver guidance screen
Route list display
Quickest, shortest, local, major, ferry, and toll route options
Automatic day/night map color switching
Record and play route/track
Detour by "avoid" roads
Customizable hot keys for quick command (for PDA)
Default (pre-set) hot keys for quick command (for laptop)
Stopover setting
Automatic and dynamic rerouting for wrong turns
Special safety features (speed and fog alert)
Status box displaying trip info including ETA, distance, remaining time, and speed
Easy to use keypad for name entry
*User needs to load maps for all countries and/or regions passing through. Total route distance capability will be limited to SD/CF card memory capacity.
Map
Digital map from Navteq
Easily select map region by country, region, or by city/radius
Detailed map display w/ street names
Zoom in and out
Trip information
Visual Display
Enhanced 3D display (3 angle options)
VGA & landscape view support
Full screen mode for laptop (manual) and PDA (automatic)
Geo-features differentiating lands, body of water, airport, etc
Got it, subscribed to XM and played with it on the ground. I had to test fly a Bonanza after an autopilot repair and there was a line of CB’s approaching. I flew straight for them. The stormscope 1000 in this plane was "spoking" so it wouldn’t indicate with any precision the actual location of the line. Awesome! I could actually find "holes" through the line without having to patrol for them. The rain boundaries depicted on the map coincided so close to the actual rain that it amazed me. I expected the delay from NEXRAD to be appreciable, but in reality you hardly notice it. I can already tell that this will dramatically increase the utility of my plane and all the other ones I fly. We leave tomorrow for a long weekend in Houston. I feel so much more relaxed knowing that I’ll have the big picture when I have to face the inevitable summer time line.