On Track with Flymap

Georgina Hunter-Jones

The perfection in navigation

Heli-Tech 2005 at Duxford was where William Moore (an engineer by training) first saw the Flymap moving map system. Amazed he had never seen it before, and encouraged by his companion Rob Lamplough's interest in buying a machine for his Spitfire, William decided to become the British distributor, something he does not regret. He says, "the nice thing about working with a small company is when you have suggestions, or you want to change or add things you can just ring up the parent company and it gets done. There is no bureaucracy to go through."

He launched his Flymap at AeroExpo at High Wycombe in June this year. He says: "Over 250 of these units have now been sold in Europe since its launch last year, and we hope for similar success in the UK."

Using normal flying maps as a background instead of a created screen, the Flymap moving map system is taking hold of the flying market. It has a particular resonance for helicopter pilots as the company has designed several features with them in mind. One is terrain warning feature, either as a bar or by height based colours superimposed over the map.

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