Air Navigation

Welcome to Air Navigation !

Air Navigation is an Electronic flight information system and flight planification tool. Using the GPS receiver and accelerometers of the iPhone it can emulate different type of real navigation intruments.
Air Navigation exists in 3 versions :

Air Navigation Free 1.5.0 iTunes link

  • a VOR-DME simulator and its related CDIs (Course Deviation Indicator). Unlike a real VOR, you can select any waypoint from the embedded database NDB's etc. Furthermore you don't loose signal when the VOR is hidden behind a mountain or flying too low.
  • an ADF
  • a Gyro compass
  • An embedded worldwide database with more than 12000 navigation waypoints and 30000 airfields.
  • Slip indicators in every instrument view



Air Navigation Standard 1.7.0 iTunes link

  • a Synthetic moving map displaying nearby navigation waypoints and airfields. Zoom in and out with 2 finger gestures. Pan, center, switch between day and night mode. Airfield are displayed with direction of main runway. A "direct to waypoint" function draw a red vector on the map (great circle / shortest path on earth).
  • Airspaces are displayed on overlay. Airspace are filtered by altitude and displayed if your current GPS altitude is +/- feet from airspace. It is also possible to select which airspace catergories are displayed. Currently airspace data is available for Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland and Italy (more to come in the future releases)
  • an HSI emulated using the iPhone GPS. Can select any waypoint from the embedded database including airfields, NDB's, your custom waypoints, etc.
  • 2 VOR-DME emulated using the iPhone GPS and their related CDIs (Course Deviation Indicator). Unlike a real VOR, you can select any waypoint from the embedded database including airfields, NDB's, your custom waypoints, etc. Furthermore you don't loose signal when the VOR is hidden behind a mountain or flying too low.
  • an ADF emulated using the iPhone GPS (ADF works only when moving at 10 kts or faster)
  • a Gyro compass emulated using the iPhone GPS (Compass works only when moving at 10 kts or faster)
  • An altimeter in feet or meters, emulated using the GPS altitude
  • Slip indicators in every instrument view using the iPhone accelerometers
  • A waypoint editor the enter your custom navigation points, airfields, navaids, fix and related information
  • A basic logbook to store flights time with block-off, take-off, landing, block-on and computation of total time and true flight time
  • An embedded worldwide database with more than 12000 navigation waypoints and 30000 airfields. Database includes frequency and channels for most waypoints
  • Customizable cockpit



Air Navigation Pro 3.1.1 (iPhone + iPad) iTunes link

  • An embedded worldwide database with more than 12000 navigation waypoints and 42000 airfields. Database includes frequency and runway information for most waypoints
  • a Synthetic moving map displaying nearby navigation waypoints and airfields. Zoom in and out with 2 finger gestures. Pan, center, switch between day and night mode. Airfield are displayed with direction of main runway. A "direct to waypoint" function draw a red vector on the map (great circle / shortest path on earth). The map can be displayed with track orientation or north orientation.
  • Terrain features, roads and cities data can be downloaded free of charge from the internet and cached for use in-flight and displayed in the map view.
  • Official aeronautical maps such as US Sectional Charts and ICAO maps for several countries can be purchased and used in the moving map instrument
  • Airspaces are displayed on overlay. Airspace are filtered by altitude and displayed if your current GPS altitude is +/- feet from airspace. It is also possible to select which airspace catergories are displayed. Currently airspace data is available for Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, South_Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA, New-Zealand (more to come in the future releases)
  • Multileg navigation flight plan editor with graphical input of waypoints from map or waypoint database.
  • Flight plan can be displayed in the moving map instrument as vectors. Next waypoint distance and estimated time will be displayed as an overlay.
  • "Active navigation plan" module, display legs information of currently selected navigation plan and can be displayed in the main tab aside of the map. It is possible to edit the wind and aircraft speed information directly from this module to compute legs eet and heading.
  • an HSI emulated using the iPhone GPS. Can select any waypoint from the embedded database including airfields, NDB's, your custom waypoints, etc.
  • 2 VOR-DME emulated using the iPhone GPS and their related CDIs (Course Deviation Indicator). Unlike a real VOR, you can select any waypoint from the embedded database including airfields, NDB's, your custom waypoints, etc. Furthermore you don't loose signal when the VOR is hidden behind a mountain or flying too low.
  • an ADF emulated using the iPhone GPS (ADF works only when moving at 10 kts or faster)
  • a Gyro compass emulated using the iPhone GPS (Compass works only when moving at 10 kts or faster)
  • An altimeter in feet or meters, emulated using the GPS altitude
  • Slip indicators in every instrument view using the iPhone accelerometers
  • A waypoint editor the enter your custom navigation points, airfields, navaids, fix and related information
  • Full automatic, fully editable logbook. The logbook will use GPS information to detect block and flight time as well as departure and arrival place. The Logbook is now storing time as UTC and all values are fully editable
  • Groundspeed indicator
  • Flight information, display all values as numeric in big font, compute and display flown distance
  • Embedded Web server : it is possible to connect to Air Navigation using a web browser to import / export data such as : Waypoints, Runways or Frequencies (tab separated values), Logbook entries, Recorded flights (as KML files), Airspace (OpenAir or Tim Newport Peace formats). Navigation flight plans (as standalone files).
  • Flight recorder : when turned on, the flight recorder will start recording your GPS position and altitude when block-off time is set (either manually or automatically) and stop when block-on time is set. It is possible to get the recorded flight as a KML file that can be viewed in Google Earth from the embedded web server
  • Customizable cockpit


You can find detailed information in the online user manual




Air Nav versions features comparison



Screenshots (Air Navigation Pro 3.1.1)