Flight Guide eBook for both Sony & Kindle DX Now Available!
The new Flight Guide eBook displays airport diagrams, airspace graphics, pertinent airport and supplementary information on portable Sony PRS500, PRS505, PRS300 Pocket Edition, PRS600 Touch Edition, New! Sony PRS900 Touch Daily Edition and Kindle DX Readers. These compact Readers weigh only 9 to 10 ounces. Lighter and thinner than the typical book, they are easily held in one hand. The 600 x 800 pixel screen has 8 levels of grayscale for a high-resolution, detailed view of optimized images. The display screens read as clearly as ink on paper, even in direct sunlight! They use no back lighting, eliminating the glare found in typical electronic device screens that results in eye strain. Custom Sony Reader covers come with a convenient light that displays the screen clearly at night, without affecting night vision. Readers also have a long battery life, lasting weeks with regular use—no need to use power cords in the cockpit.

SONY PRS 600 Touch Edition Cover w/ night light

With the Flight Guide eBook, say “goodbye” to inserting printed paper revisions. Download weekly updates to your personal computer from the internet anywhere, anytime. Then transfer newly revised Flight Guide eBooks within a few minutes via a USB cable. Now you have all the necessary airport and supplementary information right there in the cockpit with you–without the need for an internet connection.

The Flight Guide eBook is simple to use. Airports are organized by identifier, airport name or city. Once your airport is displayed, you can easily flip through its pages accessing: detailed airport diagrams (with taxiways identified), airspace graphics (class B, C & D), flight operational information, navigation & communication frequencies, FBO information (attendance, services, phone numbers & locations), fuel prices (noting full or self service & cash discounts), on and off-field facilities (food, transportation & lodging noting free pickups and discounts) and recreational information. Convenient bookmarks can be set to access commonly visited airports within seconds. Digital "Bookmarks" make finding your desired airport data instant! You can have multiple bookmarks saved per state, per region, or across the whole country!

The Flight Guide eBook can be used right along side IFR PilotPlates as an add-on feature. Now you can have Flight Guide airport data and IFR approach plates integrated with each airport! Buy all three regions of both Flight Guide eBook & IFR Pilot Plates, and together you will have yourself a suitcase full of printed IFR & VFR airport data in one portable light weight digital reader–for a fraction of the cost! IFR PilotPlates include IAPs, DPs, STARs, Airport Diagrams, Take-Off, Radar and Alternate Minimums. New Chart releases are available every 28 days (download of new IFR PilotPlates are available approximately 10 days before a new volume becomes active). IFR PilotPlates provides over 21,000 charts that can be downloaded by region (west, central or east) or the entire USA.

Computer & Memory Requirements:
The Flight Guide eBook Manager requires any computer running Windows XP or Vista operating systems. Mac users will have to install Windows XP or Vista operating systems on their computer, using Apple's Boot Camp or 3rd party applications such as Parallels Desktop For Mac, to run the Flight Guide eBook Manager. We suggest storing your Flight Guide eBook for Sony on a memory card or stick instead of the Reader’s internal memory. All three regions of the Flight Guide eBook for Sony are approximately 420MB, All three regions of IFR PilotPlates for Sony are approximately 1.3GB. All three regions of the Flight Guide eBook for the Kindle DX are approximately 150MB. All three regions of IFR PilotPlates for Kindle are approximately 815MB.

Is paperless flying legal with the FAA? The guys at FlightPrep did a nice job of clarifying this issue which would include using our IFR Pilot Plates with a Sony or Kindle eReader in the cockpit... click here for Info

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