Hi Guys and Gals;
I just picked this up off of the X-Plane Tech list and thought some of you number crunchers might be interested. Austin Meyer is the producer/owner of the X-Plane Flight Sim program. ************************************* X-Planner is here for iPhone! X-Planner is a flight-planner that runs no your iPhone or iPodTouch. Here is how it works: You enter the performance parameters of your airplane one time (takes maybe 15 minutes?) Then after that you just enter the departure and destination for wherever you are flying and the winds aloft. X-Planner will then show you your weight and center of gravity with the take-off fuel on board and weight and gravity at zero-fuel as a red line across the weight and balance envelope so you can see if you will be within weight and balance for the entire flight! Finally seeing if you are within weight and balance is easy and even kind of fun! Then X-Planner will show you the time enroute and fuel burn for each altitude so you can see how much fuel to put on board and how long the flight will be and also know WHAT ALTITUDE IS THE MOST EFFICIENT ALTITUDE TO FLY!!! I am only charging $9.99 for this so it will pay for itself in fuel savings in the first flight if it saves you even 2 gallons which I am sure it will. So any pilot with an iPhone or iPod touch should get this for sure. It makes doing the weight and balance FUN and shows you the BEST altitude to fly and tells you exactly how much fuel to ask for before flight. Pilots that do much flying and do NOT have an iPhone might consider an iPodTouch for this application... It costs $229 at apple, which is NOT exactly cheap but depending on how much flying you do you could easily save $229 of fuel over time by knowing what altitude and power settings to use on each flight based on he exact parameters of your airplane and the current winds (which you enter for each flight). Anyway, I use it before every flight 842X and it has saved me a lot of gas! You should too! Check it out at http://x-plane.com/ Austin Meyer ? ? ? ? ? ? Regards, Myron (Dan) Freeman Indpls, Ind. 46203-3570 Home of the Indy 500, the World's most famous auto race. mfreem...@indy.rr.com
