Weather4D PRO 1.0 integrates routes from iNavX

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Weather4D ProThe new app Weather4D PRO for iOS (iPhone / iPad), developed by Olivier Bouyssou, was submited yesterday to Apple. It provides advanced functions associated with GRIB files for demanding users. It comes in addition to Weather4D app which was promoted as one of the best apps in Apple AppStore for few weeks.

This Pro version, quickly available, will provide following features :

GRIB files management :

  • Importation, sharing (export ), copy-paste, folders filing, history, request from SailDocs by email

Routes management :

  • Route import in KML format from iNavX or other apps, overlay route display with forecasts, boat progress with forecasts scrolling, route settings (heading, speed, date, etc…).

Iridium satellites tracking :

  • Prediction of transition from Iridium satellites to optimize the connections to run queries GRIB files. Automatic updating of ephemeris and parameter setting coverage (rising, timing). Read more …

I am writing to you from Gibraltar

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Hey yes ! After this wonderful stay on the island of Reunion, here I am embarked without transition aboard "Rafale", a Catana 47 chartered for the ARC rally, A specially equipped proprietary model with carbon mast, Horn Mylar SGS, spinnaker, and other I forget . Underway to the Canarias, via Gibraltar, to start in Las Palmas.

Gibraltar

Under way to Gibraltar

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Galileo, here we go !

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Barely published, the 20 October, my previous post about iPhone 4S new GPS chipset – allowing you to receive signals from the Russian GLONASS system – in which I inserted a skeptical comment about the future of Galileo, that I see myself caught up in the news.

Not only did the first two satellites of Galileo were launched the next day 21 October with success from Kourou, but also by the Russian Soyuz launcher ! I hope you enjoy the comic of the situation… Read more …

iOS5 and iNavX update

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Richard Ray informs us :

I noticed after updating to iOS 5 that all my maps downloaded in iNavX were gone. This happened because the iOS update 5 update requires a full restore of the device and the charts are not stored in the iOS backup (because of iCloud). Let me know if you experience any different operation.

To restore any NOAA charts, Select any NOAA region, then select the Recent filter (looks like a clock), then select "Update Maps".

To restore any charts from X-Traverse (Navionics charts, NV-Verlag, Solteknik, aso.) : Select the folio you want, select "Update Map List", select a map and then "Download all".

If you have any problem with your X-Traverse account, Contact support@x-traverse.com

Iridium - iPad connection – is coming out !

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The Iridium AxcessPoint WiFi Router

I dont like to advertise products or features before they are available, but in this case the subject can guide choices or postponements of purchase among potential users.

Iridium announced on last 7 September the creation of a free service called Iridium AxcessPoint Mail & Web app which will be available before the end of the year 2011. This will be a mail and web compression service, hosted by Iridium, specially designed to optimize data transmission with the new Iridium WiFi router Iridium Mail. Read more …

Anchorage alarm with iNavX

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inavx anchor alarmiNavX offers for a while an "anchor alarm" feature, currently available at the bottom of the application Home page.

This function was frequently criticized as impractical.. iNavX 3.3.0 rectifies the failure in an improvement that makes it particularly clever now fully operational.

The "Anchor Alarm" function allows you to set the radius of a drift circle, with an adjustment from 0,01 NM (19 meters high) down to 0,30 NM (556 meters high) beyond which an alarm (Buzzer) Fires. Read more …

When Katia meets La Louise

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Thierry Dubois and his teammates, dont Jacques Vermeulen experimenting its Iridium connection with its new MacBook Air, must not be laughing at the time I post this short post.

La Louise, conveying from Newfoundland to La Trinité, is being caught up in Hurricane Katia, ex-tropical cyclone, which is due to reach the coast of the British Isles next night. Based on last position and estimated speed, La Louise should be in the west of the weather area "Romeo", either in the southeast of the center of the Low, its intended position on the Navimail map below the location of the red boat at 18h UTC : Read more …