The Weather4D 2.0 new is arrived

No developer vacations ! I talked about testing the new features to come during our Long journey from Corsica to Normandy last May. After several weeks of finalization, and mainly to adapt early to future iOS 10 Available this fall, here is the delivery of the new version 2.0.15 in Weather4D 2.0. An addition of long-awaited new features.

Analog instrument panels

We can now display in full screen, or in half-screen, A customizable instrument panel. These instruments analog design offer five pages a combination of 1, 2 or 4 Instruments, displaying navigation, speed and wind data.

For each instrument, the choice is made by a long press on the instrument that opens a selection popup window :

During navigation, addition of chart and instruments in two screens allows accurate monitoring of the course :

For Speed and Wind instruments, A short tap on the instrument allows you to select the data to be displayed : SOG, STW, VMC (¹) for speed, APP (apparent) or TRUE (real) for the wind.

Track

Advanced track management has been added. You can enable the track, View it, record it sequentially, then delete it to launch a new track. There is no limit to recorded tracks number. Tracks can be exported and imported in .vdr (Weather4D specific) or .gpx formats. You can customize track color.

Recording includes all navigation data associated with completed course (NMEA data) with 1 minute steps.

Autopilot control

Henceforth, as with Weather4D Android version, You can control the autopilot by sending NMEA sentences according to route followed to an active waypoint :

GRIB files requests via SailDocs

Pending full integration GRIB Weather requests to Weather4D 2.0 servers with an Iridium GO! (²), automated request process, via applications XGate or Iridium Mail & Web app, has been added, same as Weather4D Pro. This allows to recover GRIB files GFS and WW3 models available on the American Server SailDocs with a satellite phone.

The left button "Saildocs" opens a window to create specific zone for satellite phone that, once composed, is sent to the available satphone application on your tablet.

Charting

Good news for Mediterranean sailors, the Geogarage website has negotiated with the Italian company Navimap the integration of their official raster charts catalogue covering in detail all Italy coasts for 50 € annual subscription. The catalogue Navimap is displayed in yellow on the website Geogarage.

With UKHO covering Spain in part, Balearic Islands and Croatia in detail, the SHOM which covers in detail the coasts of France and Corsica, Navimap completes the western Mediterranean basin in detail. We are no longer waiting for the negotiations to succeed for Greece and Turkey.

Display simulation data in instruments data labels

A Latest Update 2.0.16 will respond in a few days to a pressing request to display simulation and routing data in the instruments, Alternative to actual data. It will be done. The data will automatically be displayed in yellow (not to be confused with the actual blank data) as soon as a target will be enabled on the simulated route or routing.

Here is a set of functions which enrich this amazing application, auxquelles s’ajoutent « sous le capot » de nombreuses améliorations fonctionnelles pour une efficacité toujours plus grande.

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(¹) See tutoriel gratuit pour l’explication des acronymes.
(²) La société APP4NAV est développeur référencé Iridium GO!, ce qui lui permet d’intégrer à l’application le contrôle de l’appareil Iridium GO! et ainsi de gérer la connexion à ses propres serveurs. Cela ouvre l’accès à tous les autres modèles disponibles comme ARPEGE, AROME, etc,.
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