Save unlimited number of flightplans on internal memory or CF disk and recall for future use
Instant Reciprocals of plan for the return journey (append or replace original plan)
Designate 'Holding and Contingency' fuel to add to Auto-Fuel Plan (Litres, USgalls, IMPgalls, Lbs or Kg)
or designate 'Fuel on Board' and have the reserve fuel calculated
Vertical Navigation function inserts Top of Climb/Descent waypoints with fuel calculations
Store Weight & Balance data for unlimited number of aircraft and recall for instant Weight,
moment and C of G for Take off and landing
(If volume fuel units are used for planning, they are automatically converted to weight, taking into account fuel type (Avgas/Avtur))
Plots a graph of weight & balance envelope. Many popular envelope types are selectable,
but you can describe your own for any type using the 'Envelope Creator'
Up to 99 sectors per plan with Alternate facility
Tap on screen to record start, take-off, land and shut down times.
Tap on sector column to record ATA times. ETA's are automatically updated
Comprehensive Edit facility to Change, Insert or delete sectors from your current Plan
Computes Great Circles or Rhumb Lines
Ordnance Survey British National Grid support
New wind facility that quickly re-calculates the plan using a new wind velocity
Print Setup to select Printer,font margins etc.
Print Preview and Printing of plan including frequencies and Weight & Balance calculations
Navaids Search to list navaids with their frequency within a specified range of a waypoint
Position Fix (lat/long and RNAV coordinate) from a VOR/DME or VOR/VOR fix
and show QDM to nearest or designated diversion
Calculate headings and time for standard Holding Patterns and use the Stopwatch facility to fly it
56 Instant Conversions- including: volume, weight, distance, speed,
temperature, pressure, volume to weight
TAF/METAR decoder outputs a verbose description for any input TAF/METAR
Logbook hours/minutes quick calculator
Performance calculations for Take off/Landing distances
Visual/Aural Morse Code generator
Calculate Crosswind/Headwind components
Frequency Directory of all waypoints in database
Calculate Cost of Plan from running cost /hr or /nm.
Worldwide Sunrise/Sunset, Civil dawn/dusk times
Calculate Pressure altitude and Density altitude
Calculate Point of no Return and Critical point
Calculate Top of Descent / Rate of Descent
Add, Edit or Delete waypoints from database.
Build your own database on Internal or CF disk
Standard European 
Database consists of 32 countries and has aprox 4000 navaids
and airfields with comms
frequencies, runway heading, runway length, elevation, fuel availability
and space to add user notes
Intersection database available
USA (NFDC) database available
Other areas also available
The Moving-Map shows...
The planned route and user defined waypoints enroute
Airfields,Helipads, VORDME's, VOR's, NDB's and Intersections...
using standard symbols
Option to display Navaid frequencies on map
Option to display 5nm airfield boundaries
Coastlines
UK class D airspace
The aircraft position as depicted by flashing cursor
Snail trail showing actual track made good
Distance scale at base of map
The right hand side of the screen displays:
Waypoint number and name, Trk(m), Cross Trk error (nm L/R)
Ground speed(kts), QDM direct to wpt, Range to wpt(nm)
UTC time, ETE, ETA
Lat/Long or OS BNGR position and number of satellites
Features:
Automatic selection of next waypoint as current one is passed (or can be selected manually)
'Go To' function for instant navigation to a diversion/new wpt (new Trk drawn)...option to resume planned route.
Zoom in/out (implements auto de-clutter mode)
Record and store GPS data with facility to Playback actual route flown using the Moving-Map
Features can be turned off to manually de-clutter screen
Locator function displays continuous position from nearest UK town or nearest European airfield
Option to display ETA's for all waypoints ahead
Simulator mode to fly the planned route using the moving-map display (a GPS is not required for this)
Facility to upload routes to Garmin GPS
...Download a screencam movie to see a complete plan (3 mins) with frequency info, fuel plan, graphical weight & balance, ETA's and moving map display
sierra7scm.zip (548k) If you already have Lotus Screencam installed
sierra7exe.zip (837k) If you do not have Lotus Screencam installed
Review in Flyer magazine (reproduced with permission (c) Flyer)
screenshots of SIERRA with USA database, 13000+ airfields, 3000+ navaids...
...This software is available via email attached zip file
or PC floppy disk/CD-ROM, featuring auto-install via PSIWIN
Also available ready to slot into the SERIES 5 on compact flash disk
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