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Thank you for your interest in Air Navigation. Air Navigation was developed with General Aviation in mind, however it was quickly adopted by pilots of various flying vehicles including for example paragliders, gliders, ultra light, single or multiengine airplanes, helicopters and even hot air balloons.

Air Navigation is an affordable, yet powerful flight planning and real-time navigation application. With version 5, the application user interface was overhauled to make it easier to use and add various new features. We hope you’ll enjoy the product as much as we enjoyed working on it.

About this document

This document is intended to be a complete user manual, however, as new updates are released often, brand new features may be missing until they are added in a further version. You will find references to 2 versions of Air Navigation (Standard and Pro), however, this document will focus on Air Navigation Pro.

About Air Navigation

Air Navigation is a real time navigation and flight planning application. It is distributed in 2 versions:

Air Navigation Standard

• Moving map with direct to waypoint capability;
• Access to free of charge, open source maps, downloadable from within the application;
• Internal database with more than 100. 000 waypoints, airports and related information;
• Internal database with airspaces information (not all countries available);
• Logbook (manual);
• Navigation instruments (HSI, VOR, ADF).

Air Navigation Pro

• Moving map with multi leg flight planning or direct to waypoint capability;
• Access to commercial aviation charts (as in-app purchases) for Europe, USA, Australia, New-Zealand (check our website for available countries);
• Support for georeferenced approach charts (not all countries available, check our website for more information);
• Access to free of charge, open source maps, downloadable from within the application;
• Internal database with more than 100 000 waypoints, airports and related information;
• Internal database with airspaces information (not all countries available);
• Logbook (automatic);
• Support for elevation data, see terrain in front of airplane or while planning legs;
• Support for 3D data of Synthetic Vision;
• Navigation instruments (HSI, CDI, ADF);
• Online flight tracking service.
• Support for the use of external gadgets (AHRS g mini, other manufacturers)

Minimum Requirements

Air Navigation Pro 5 will run on:

• An iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad;
• iOS operating system version 5.1 or higher;
• 200 MB of available space for the application and database;
• approximately 350 MB of available space for each chart of the size of a country like France or Germany;
• A GPS module is mandatory for real time navigation. The following devices have an integrated GPS module:
  • iPhone 3GS/4/5/6;
  • iPad 1 or 2 with 3G capabilities;
  • New iPad (known as iPad 3);
  • iPad mini + Cellular (with 4G capabilities).
• iPod Touch and iPads Wifi only require an external GPS module. Example of external GPS modules are:
  • TOM TOM car kit for iPhone;
  • GNS 5870 MFi Bluetooth;
  • Bad Elf 66 channels;
  • DUAL XGPS 150 series;
  • Garmin GLO Bluetooth.

For more information on how to connect Air Nav Pro with an external GPS device, please refer to External devices.