GlidePlan 2.0b6

Glideplan is a tool designed to allow the glider pilot to quickly plan and explore potential cross country flights from the desktop.
GlidePlan uses current Sectionals for the entire US, and creates graphic overlays similar to traditional map marking techniques.
GlidePlan Produces automatic contoured lines of glide elevation for intuitive planning so pilots can easily explore impact of arrival altitude and glider performance on goals or tasks.
GlidePlan is great for instructors, and students learning cross country techniques.
GlidePlan features Automatic evaluation of tasks for FAI badge compliance, with diagnostics, and outputs printed maps at Sectional scale, with automatic map legends, eliminating the need to mark up Sectionals by hand.
Main features:
- Allows pilot to easily visualize possible tasks and goals
- Automatic evaluation of tasks for FAI badge compliance, with diagnostics
- Eliminates the need to mark up Sectionals by hand
- Based on FAA sourced and scanned Sectionals
- Produces automatic contoured lines of glide elevation for intuitive planning
- Easily explore impact of arrival altitude and glider performance on goals or tasks
- Great for instructors, and students learning cross country techniques
- Transparency and fully customized colors and line widths increase map legibility
- Outputs printed maps at Sectional scale, with automatic map legend
- Quickly update saved maps with new landouts, or eliminate dated ones
- Runs on Mac OSX, or Windows 2000/NT/XP
- Free Sectional maps of the U.S. available on the site.
Version restrictions:
- Printing, Saving and Exporting are diasbled in Demo.