eCOPILOT

The electronic Copilot

About this app

eCOPILOT (The electronic Copilot) is a simple to use yet feature-full navigation (moving map), logbook and flight track recording app for private, recreational and ultralight pilots.
It is designed for use on 6 inch or bigger phones and tablets
eCOPILOT is geared towards the VFR "recreational" private pilot that wants an easy to use navigation app that is free of extra "over-complicated" features and that provides a "single tap" logbook to keep track of flying times.

As a navigation app eCOPILOT offers:
• Moving map navigation with worldwide airport database and user added Point of Interests.
• Worldwide Airspaces (78 countries) with visual alarm if inside an airspace.
• Multi leg Flight Route creation with auto-selection of next leg POI/Airport.
• Routes and added POIs may be saved for later use.
• Total Route Distance and Current Leg Distance.
• Route Highest Elevation and Current Leg Highest Elevation.
• Altitude Above Ground with Terrain Avoidance Alarm.
• Total Flight Time Alarm.
• Lines connecting all POIs/Airports in the route.
• Total Route Distance and current flown distance.
• Bearing, Distance and Estimated en-route time to next selected POI/Airport (with line connecting Aircraft to POI/Airport).
• Bearing, Distance and Estimated en-route time to all POI/Airports that are part of your flight route.
• Bearing, Distance and Estimated en-route time to nearest POI/Airport (with optional line connecting Aircraft to nearest POI/Airport).
• Configurable reference circle around aircraft and selected POI/Airport with line showing aircraft heading.
• Worldwide Airport database: Location, Runway heading, length, radio frequencies, altitude, description.
• Single Tap to go to nearest or any other POI/Airport.
• Single Tap to add POI/Airport to current flight leg.
• Worldwide Map is cached on the device. No need for internet while flying.
• Imperial, Nautical and Metric units.
• True and Magnetic compass.
• Full Screen Map View

As a logbook eCOPILOT includes:
• Single tap to start and stop the current logbook.
• Recording of flight track.
• Tracks may be "playback" within eCOPILOT. Up to 20x playback speed and "rewind" and "fast-forward" supported.
• Tracks may be viewed on any application, mobile or desktop, that supports KML files (such as Google Earth for Desktop / Android, MAPinr on Android, etc.)
• Logbook will automatically select "FROM" and "TO" airport/POI.
• Total Flight Time and current time display.
• Logbook entries can be viewed within the app.
• Logbook TFT and Air Time shown under the logbook entries list.
• Notes may be added to each Logbook entry.
• Logbook is saved as a plain text comma separated file that can be viewed on any text viewer app or imported in spread-sheet programs. Logbook entries contain: Aircraft Mark, From, To, Date/Time of take-off, Date/Time of landing, Total Flight Time as Hour/Minutes and Hours decimal, Total Travel Distance, Notes.
• Send logbook file and tracks to your email.
• Logbook and tracks may be Exported/Imported to/from user's selected device's local storage folder.

What’s new

Fixed the possibility of airspaces not updating correctly when the aircraft goes from inside the airspace to inside but above or below the airspace.