FltPlan Go for Android features include streamlined interface for easy access to essential flight planning tools, moving maps for the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, and Central America, breadcrumbs on moving maps and approach plates, and geo-referenced approach charts and taxi charts for the U.S. Users have the ability to track flights and access tools and calculators such as checklists, weight & balance, runway wind calculation, and temperature conversion. It also offers a variety of basemaps such as satellite, street, shaded relief, and topographic (with an internet connection). You are not limited by being tied to one device.” The free FltPlan Go app for Android shows graphical flight plan routes and gives registered users offline and in-flight access to NavLogs, approach plates, weather briefings, high resolution/zoomable sectional, victor low charts, and jet high charts. “Other flight planning companies do not offer such redundancy. “The beauty of FltPlan is that you can keep and use both, an iPad and an Android,” said Ken Wilson, founder and president of FltPlan, the largest flight-planning service in North America. The company points out that if you are familiar with the iPad Go app pilots can transition easily to the Android Go. FltPlan’s new redesigned FltPlan Go for Android is the mirror image of its iPad Go app, introduced earlier this year. This makes FltPlan the first company to offer free inflight apps on both Apple and Android tablets.
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SOUTHBURY, CT JFltPlan has launched its free full feature Android Go app designed as an alternative to the iPad which until now has been the primary device available for inflight usage.