| Navigator |
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Navigator is a full featured glider navigation program. On the
map you can see waypoints, airspaces and selected task.
As a background you can use elevation,
differential and
bitmap (raster) map. It also
calculates and displays useful information about the final
glide, speed and direction of wind and speed to fly. On the
second window thermal statistics are displayed.
Program is simple and easy to use. |
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| Navigator user's manual |
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Download
Navigator user's manual. |
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| Navigator
Memory Card installation |
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Navigator can be installed and registered to the memory card. By
doing so you will:
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files will be saved on memory card and will not occupy main
memory |
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will be preserved form power loss |
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program can be easily transferred form one Pocket PC to another |
| - all
IGC flights will be saved to memory card |
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There are two ways how you can install the program
to memory card:
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special version of the install program to install directly to
the memory card |
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transfer already installed program to memory card |
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Download
Navigator Memory Card
installation manual. |
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| Navigator feature
list |
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Navigator is a program which is targeting average pilot who is flying
for fun and for competition and cross country pilots who are searching
for the program with simpler user interface. But this simple user
interface is on the other hand deceiving, because the feature list is
quite long and most pilots will find everything that they need for
recreation, cross country and competition flying. Check the feature
list on the Navigator feature list page. |
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| Navigator safety
features |
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There are two kinds of safety features. One are the special
features that would alert you for the possible problems or help
you out in critical situations. Second kind of features is the
program design itself, because user interface should be designed
to help the pilot and not to distract him or require too much
attention. Check the full list of the safety features on
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Navigator safety page. |
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| Registration options |
| Program can be registered to Pocket PC or to
instrument. For more information please
reed Register Navigator section in Navigator
user's manual. |
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Navigator Free |
Navigator |
| NMEA GPS sentences |
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| Elevation and differential map |
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| Bitmap map |
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| Task support |
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| Task declaration |
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| Thermal statistics |
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| Terrain elevation graph |
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| IGC flight recording |
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| Parameters page |
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| Install program to memory card |
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| In this table differences between Navigator Free and
Navigator are described. Navigator Free will read only standard NMEA GPS
sentences and will not decode other sentences that are transmitted from
glider instruments (they usually include information about pressure
altitude, vario, airspeed,...). This information is used for more
accurate final glide and wind calculation. Beside the differences
in this table all other features are supported in Navigator and
Navigator Free. Features not mentioned in upper table
are enabled for both versions of Navigator. |
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| Supported
file formats |
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Navigator does not introduce another waypoint format (like other
software and instrument manufacturers), but instead of that uses
several well known formats that are in use for several years. By
doing so Navigator takes advantage of the big database of already
created files for almost every part of the World. |
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Waypoints |
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Program
supports four waypoint file formats:
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CUP |
SeeYou waypoint and task file format |
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DAT |
Winpilot waypoint file
format |
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WPZ |
Zander waypoint file format |
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FDT |
flyWithCE database format generated on the
Map & Data web page |
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Reserved airspaces |
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Program
supports two airspace formats:
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TXT |
OpenAir airspace format |
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SUA |
Tim Newport-Peace airspace format |
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File resources
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You can download waypoint and airspace
files from the Worldwide Soaring Turnpoint Exchange web site:
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| How to
install waypoint and airspace files? |
| To install the certain file
to the Pocket PC use File explorer and copy files to the Pocket PC in
\My Documents\ folder. The process is simple and requires
installed ActiveSync program. After you will connect the Pocket PC to PC
you will get new Mobile device icon in My computer folder. This mobile
device is Pocket PC and you can copy files to or from Pocket PC like it
would be a normal disk device. Than you have to select copied files in
Settings - File dialog window. |
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| Color
elevation maps |
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Program Navigator supports color elevation
maps. They can be displayed as elevation maps or as differential maps
(areas above plane are marked with red color).
Data from elevation maps is also used for the final glide calculation.
Navigator will warn you if there is terrain between you and the
waypoint (selected or task).
Maps are generated on the Maps & Data
web site. |
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| Bitmap
(raster) maps |
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Bitmap (raster) maps can be also used as map background. The
base for this is BMP file that you can prepare yourself or you
can get this file from one of the official map sources that also
offer maps in digital format. Map is
scaled and rotated to the current zoom level and map orientation
settings. In the Bitmap map manual is listed how you can
prepare, install and use the bitmap maps.
Sample map is available on the Download page. If you will be
using this map in Simulator make sure that you select one of the
GPS positions listed in MAP file as start position for Simulator
(Hardware - Simulator).
Download
Navigator Bitmap maps manual
or sample map for Detroit. |
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| Supported instruments |
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Program
Navigator decodes NMEA sentences transmitted from GPS receivers. It
also decodes additional sentences transmitted from some glider
instruments.
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As a source of NMEA sentences you can use any
standard GPS receiver or flight recorder. Default communication speed
is 4800 bps with one stop bit and no parity. In settings there is a
special GPS window where you can see which sentences are sent form
your device and which are used in Navigator. I would recommend that
you turn off unused sentences to keep communication at minimum.
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If there is no serial
port available or Navigator did not received at start any NMEA
sentences program automatically switches to simulator mode.
If you would like to use beta version of program Navigator in tracking
mode your instrument will have to transmit ZDA or RMC sentence.
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Program Navigator can also decode additional sentences form following
instruments:
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- LX Navigation (LX20, Colibri, LX160,
LX1600, LX5000, LX7000, LX7007)
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- Zander (SR940, SR941)
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- Borgelt B50
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- Volkslogger
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- Cambridge Aero 302
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- Cambridge GPS_NAV 10, 20
and 25 |
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- Westerboer VW921, VW922 |
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- EW Avionics |
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Usually you will have to enable those sentences in your instrument (they
are usually called Winpilot interface). By default program decodes all
know sentences. If you would like to display additional data you should
select correct device in Hardware Instrument dialog window.
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| Supported
platforms |
Program
Navigator is running on Windows CE Pocket PC devices with OS version
3.0 or higher (Pocket PC 2000, Pocket PC 2002, Pocket PC 2003 and
Pocket PC 2003 SE). There are no plans at this moment to port this
program to older versions of operating system (Palm PC versions 2.01 and
2.11). Program will support devices with QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) and VGA
(640 x 480 pixels) display resolution.
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| Program will run on following devices: |
| - all
Strong ARM devices |
| - Compaq
Aero 1550 devices |
| - Compaq
Aero 15XX devices with operating system upgrade (OS version 3.0) |
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