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Which sources do you consult to get today's latest airspace activations for your planned flight?

 

Dear beta testers,

Since our last newsletter, a lot has happened in the world. We hope that you are healthy and weren't overly affected by the steps taken by almost all countries in the world to fight COVID-19.
Now that most European countries, albeit with a few restrictions, do allow GA flying again, we hope that you've had the opportunity to get back in the air, or will be able to do so soon.

 AIP, NOTAM, AUP/UUP, ATC, FIS?
Radio, paper documents, some websites, an app?
How to combine all these sources in a simple flight plan?

The EasyVFR headquarters are at Lelystad Airport (EHLE) in the Netherlands, which is one of the busiest GA airfields here. Since a week or two, we are back at the office after having worked from home for fifteen weeks. It's a joy and a true inspiration to be back here, being able to work in the same hanger as colleagues, being surrounded by roaring engines from all kinds of aircraft and a thriving aviation community.

During the lockdown, we were forced to evaluate the release and development roadmap for EasyVFR 4. The saying Never waste a good crisis to us meant that we took the opportunity to spend full-time work on a, for the European VFR communities unique, idea. Today we are thrilled to share with you, as one the first EasyVFR 4 users, our exciting news - before everyone else.

In this newsletter, we'll cover what's new in today's released EasyVFR version 4.0.765, our public beta and the EASA GA Safety Award 2020 of which EasyVFR 4 was the second place winner of! Plus of course more about this exciting new feature that you will get your hands on soon!

Enjoy reading and we'll hope that you are as excited about this new version as were are.

 

Cheers,

The EasyVFR 4 team

 

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2nd Prize Awarded to EasyVFR 4

? ? Weeee! We're proud as a peacock for being a winner in the very first EASA GA Safety Award with our brand new EasyVFR 4!! We hereby congratulate our fellow winners Open Glider Network and FlyTool with their success.

"The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is pleased to announce the winners of its first General Aviation (GA) Safety Award. The GA Safety Award recognises the most safety-beneficial smartphone/tablet application for use by GA pilots."
"The apps submitted were assessed against their ability to address one or more of the four major safety concerns identified in the European Plan for Aviation Safety (EPAS): Staying in control, managing the flight, Preventing mid-air collisions and coping with weather."

See here the full EASA GA Safety Award 2020 press release.

 

EasyVFR 4 data partners

Now in public beta and a free 30 days trial period
We've decided to release EasyVFR 4 as a public beta to ALL European aviators. New users can explore EasyVFR 4 for 30 days, free of charge.

Create an EasyVFR 4 account here.

The number of beta users is now growing rapidly and we hereby invite you to share the registration form with your aviation friends all over Europe!

 

Unique for the VFR community!
AUP, NOTAM and AIP information in a single mobile flight planning and navigation app!

In the past months, the number of features, ease of workflows and vector map performance have been tested, optimized and redesigned in order to get EasyVFR 4 on track before announcing our biggest surprise yet. In version 4.0.742 you could already see a small part of that work. Now we are ready for the real thing, and starting from EasyVFR 4.0.765 we will gradually invite more and more of the existing beta testers to it.

What is this AUP your talking about?
EasyVFR 4 now supports airspace (de)activations per Airspace Use Plan ('AUP')!
In a growing number of countries, the AUP is or is becoming a supplemental way with a fairly high time resolution of enabling and disabling airspaces. Via a direct and secure link with Eurocontrol, EasyVFR 4 can now also dim and highlight airspaces that are switched on and off per AUP. This means that if a particular airspace is only active from 10:00 until 12:00 by AUP, EasyVFR will show it as active in that timespan only! To our knowledge, no other VFR flight planning and navigation app has this feature.

We have made a rough sneak peak screen video where you can see a glance of the AUP implementation, here.

When will I get the AUP Data in EasyVFR 4?

The AUP feature is currently only available for all beta testers who started at or before May 15th 2020, until we optimized the usage of this data. We will let you know as soon as we are ready to add it to your license - again, at no charge.

With this version, manually searching and combining all different sources that manage the airspace activations is no longer required.
The unique EasyVFR 4 SmartMap does the job for you.
Only see airspaces that are active and relevant for your trip.

by AUP activated airspace highlited and quickinfo window

 

4.0.765 Big performance boost
The latest phones and tablets like the OnePlus 7T and iPad Mini 5 were already quite fast at running EasyVFR 4. With the new update, you'll find that all other supported devices are now noticeably faster when panning and zooming the map. In our tests, we see between two to five times faster map rendering. That's quite a bit!

 

   
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Just installed 4.0.765 on PC (surface go) and phne XIAOMI A2-Lite, on its much faster on both devices - great!

And AUP seems to work at least the silly restricted areas around EHAM/EHRD for the 4-May celebrations have disappeared. Excellent! Love that feature, reduces the number of in-flight alerts.

One point I'm missing: fuel information for airports has only fields for Jet A-1 and 100LL. But all planes with Rotax engines want mogas in one of its forms. Can you show that as well in the airport information? Or is it there already and I just have to enable it?


   
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