Aviation GPS

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Aviation GPS turns your iPhone or iPad into a professional-grade navigation instrument for pilots, flight training, and aviation enthusiasts — real-time bearing, distance, course deviation, and a full moving map with worldwide airport, navaid, and airspace data. Modeled on the panel-mount GPS navigators pilots already know, it pairs a clean FMC-style data display with a genuine moving map, HSI/CDI guidance, flight planning, and a Visual Approach mode with a 3° glidepath where there's no ILS. KEY FEATURES: • Moving map with 23-step zoom range, pan, continuous pinch-zoom, and multiple declutter levels • Optional traffic from OpenSky or a GDL 90 ADS-B receiver (Stratux, SkyEcho), with threat colors, relative or actual altitude, and a 10-minute trail for a tapped target (advisory only) • Own-ship breadcrumb trail of your recent ground track • Worldwide airspace boundaries (Class B/C/D, Restricted/Danger/Prohibited, Military/MOA, and more) — tap any boundary for its name, class, and floor/ceiling; overlapping airspace and NOTAMs are listed together • Airspace proximity alarms that flag boundaries before you enter them • To-scale runways at close range, colored by surface type • Visual Approach mode: lateral and vertical glidepath guidance to any runway, no ILS required • OBS mode: key in any course on the keypad, or dial it by dragging • HSI/CDI course deviation indicator with auto-scaling sensitivity • Real-time navigation to 55,000+ airports and 10,000+ navaids (VOR, NDB, TACAN, DME) worldwide • FAA NOTAMs: areas on the map, a briefing for your whole route, and an airport's NOTAMs on its waypoint page, kept for offline use (not an official briefing) • METAR and TAF with flight category on the waypoint page • Flight log: record your track in the background and share it as CSV or GPX • Barometric altitude and vertical speed, blended with GPS for drift-free readings • Selectable GPS track smoothing (OFF/LOW/MED/HIGH), from light aircraft to jet speeds • Nearest (NRST) search for airports, navaids, and user waypoints • Full-screen DATA page with selectable fields, and a customizable button bar • On iPad: a large map plus two smaller areas — map, flight plan, and HSI at once • Compass modes: Track, Heading, or Auto-switching, plus RMI and HSI styles • Destination info with runway diagrams, elevations, and radio frequencies • Magnetic variation from the official World Magnetic Model (WMM2025), accurate worldwide • Background layers: coastlines, rivers, color-coded roads, railways, and cities, independently configurable • AutoZoom tightens the map range on approach to your destination • Optional downloadable database updates; the database still works fully offline • Built-in Pilot's Guide, available offline • X-Plane integration via XGPS (with simulator traffic), plus a demo mode with a KAP 140-style simulated autopilot FLIGHT PLANNING: • Build routes with unlimited waypoints — airports, navaids, or custom coordinates • Save flight plans by name and load them again whenever you fly the route • Automatic waypoint sequencing as you pass each fix, with turn-anticipation arcs • Per-leg and total distance and ETE, with cumulative distance per waypoint • DIRECT TO any waypoint at any time, with automatic return to the active plan • Named coordinate waypoints for off-airway fixes, saved and reusable • Activate, suspend, reverse, or clear your plan at any time PROFESSIONAL FEATURES: • Great-circle bearing and distance, with true-to-magnetic conversion • ETA with timezone detection and local time display • Vertical glidepath deviation gauge for Visual Approach mode • GPS coordinate display in DEG, D M, or DMS format • Aviation-standard color coding and a professional aviation typeface Includes a full worldwide aviation database on-device — no internet connection required for navigation, with optional data updates when you want them. Only OpenSky traffic, weather, NOTAMs, and the map's wind indicator use a live connection.