Garmin’s subsidiary Digital Cyclone just upgraded their iPhone app to include fuel prices and approach charts.

The real time fuel price information can now be accessed from your iPhone. Of course this is not your regular wimpy unleaded 87 grade gas. Pilot My-Cast will display fuel prices for 100LL and jet fuel at your current airport and along your route.

The approach charts are from National Aeronautical Navigation Services Charts (AeroNav Services) and allow pilots to find AeroNav Services Departure Procedures (DP), Standard Terminal Arrival Routes (STARs), approach charts, and airport diagrams.

The app is for US and Canada and costs $10/mo or $100/yr. Other features of Pilot My-Cast include the ability to overlay weather information on your route, plan a flight, and more.

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Pilot My-Cast aviation app gets upgraded

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Garmin just announced new chart capabilities for the GPSMAP 695 and GPSMAP 696. Soon you will be able to refer to georeferenced Garmin FliteCharts. With its 7″ portrait style screen pilots will be able to view the entire approach plate, and see their plane’s exact position while monitoring other tidbits of information on approach charts.

With Garmin GPSMAP 695 and 696 if the current approach is known, it will automatically select the correct chart based on the flight plan.

You will have to wait until 4th quarter of 2010 to get your hands on the new georeferenced version of Garmin FliteCharts. It will cost one-time fee of $500 and can be enabled at fly.garmin.com.

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Garmin GPSMAP 695 and 696

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Google just announced that they updated the Google Maps data shown on touchscreens of every airplane seat. This is part of their continued partnership as Virgin America is a ‘high-tech’ airline offering in flight WiFi. The newly improved Google Maps for Virgin America – just like every other map in the sky – shows you where you are. But with Google you can zoom and pan to explore. The newly added features now include terrain view and fresh Google data so the maps are not only prettier, but also highlight mountains, elevation and other natural features.

As Google describes it in their blog:

…it more closely matches what you’d actually see if you had cloud-penetrating eyesight and looked out the window from 35,000 feet.

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Google Maps updated on Virgin America

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There’s no vehicle Garmin won’t put their gadgets in. The latest is the Garmin G500H Helicopter Flight Display which recently got FAA’s approval.

It’s an all-glass avionics system designed for VFR Part 27 helicopters. Its PFD can either be on the left or right and it can display attitude, airspeed, vertical speed, altitude, and heading information. The MFD shows moving maps, helicopter’s current position in relation to terrain, chart data, and flight plan routings.

G500H is already available for an introductory price of $25000. Yes, that’s 25 thousand dollars.

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Garmin G500H Helicopter Flight Display

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This is called the SafeNav and it’s an airport vehicle navigation system designed to make airport runways safer.

SafeNav is powered by Garmin and it enhances the situational awareness of airport vehicle operators regardless of visibility and other conditions. It provides a moving map of the vehicle’s location on the airport just like any other car GPS navigation system. It includes built-in maps of 950 U.S. airports, provides real-time tracking of vehicle location on the airport on its 4.3″ touch screen, comes with geofencing to keep vehicles off runways and other sorts of alarms for potential runway incursions.

Not sure how much this costs.

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SafeNav: GPS navigation system for airport runways

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