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5/9/2013 1:00 PM
 

<p>Hi Walter and Shane - What do you think about making all of the FAA Sectionals available for your customers as JPEG files? Or TIFF, or any other image format. I love my iFly 700 and would not think of flying anywhere with out it. It gets me "there" every time - and gets me "there" safely thru all of its great features. However, for the last year, I have been using my tablet to display my sectionals as I fly also. Because of many factors, like weather, sometimes I have to divert from my planed route. Instead of panning around on my iFly and losing track of where I am, I use my tablet to do my in-flight flight planning. Using both my iFly and my tablet together makes a very powerful navigation tool - increasing the safety factor many folds.</p> <p>Right now I get my sectionals for my tablet from the FAA web site for free. But these TIFF files are around 50MB each. I have to reduce the file size to around 10MB and I also change them to JPEG files. They work great with my tablet's image viewer. However, it takes quite abit of time to modify and keep these charts up to date. You (Adventure Pilot) seem to be reducing these files to around 10MB also. So, my queation is, would you please consider providing for your customers a place on your server were we could down load curent sectionals in the JPEG format? As I have mentioned before, this would be a great safety benefit and it would also be a great increase to the value of your product.</p> <p>Oh - talking about value - I'm sure that this service would increase your cost. If you could let us know what your company would need to do this, I'm sure that all of us tablet owners would be willing to support it.</p> <p>Thank you for any consideration towards this request.</p> <p>Jim Williams</p>

 
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5/10/2013 10:10 AM
 

Hi Jim, you can actually download much of that data from the FAA:
http://aeronav.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=...

-Walter


Walter Boyd
President, Adventure Pilot
 
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