Satellite Navigation for pilots

In this group you will find a number of interesting sites about the GPS world helping you to understand the magic of GPS and GLONASS and the upcoming GALILEO.

Description of ultralight aviation site

Country

AirMap from Lowrance

Manufacturer of Pilot GPS

USA

AvMap

All AvMap products are built around award winning electronic charts from C-Map, providing the best available worldwide coverage.

Italy

Des Newman´s OziExplorer

OziExplorer GPS Mapping Software will work with Magellan, Garmin, Lowrance, Eagle and MLR GPS receivers

USA

EGNOS

The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) is Europe’s first venture into satellite navigation. It augments the two military satellite navigation systems now operating, the US GPS and Russian GLONASS systems, and makes them suitable for safety critical applications such as flying aircraft or navigating ships through narrow channels.

European Union

GALILEO, the European Satellite Navigation System

Galileo will be Europe’s own global navigation satellite system, providing a highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning service under civilian control. It will be inter-operable with GPS and GLONASS, the two other global satellite navigation systems.

European Union

GARMIN

Garmin is the proven leader in general aviation avionics with a wide variety of panel-mount, remote-mount and portable systems including portable GPS, transponders and transceivers (NAV/COM). Feature rich and logical to operate, you can tell our state-of-the-art avionics are designed by pilots for pilots.

USA

GARtrip

The Windows PC shareware program for Garmin and Magellan GPS receivers

Germany

Global Positioning System Overview

These materials were developed by Peter H. Dana, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin, 1994

USA

Glonass, the Russian way.

GLONASS (GLObal NAvigation Satellite System) is a satellite based radionavigation system which enables unlimited number of users to make all-weather 3D positioning, velocity measuring and timing anywhere in the world or near-Earth space.

Russia

GPS - DRØMMEN OM DEN ULTIMATIVE KOORDINATMASKINE

GPS - Galileo - GLONASS, how does it work (in Danish)

Denmark

GPS WORLD

GPSWorld delivers innovations and best practices that provide a competitive edge for the user/developer community employing global positioning and timing technologies.

USA

gpsinformation.net

World's Most Popular GPS Information Resource.

USA

GPSy

GPSy® is a sophisticated Macintosh GPS communications and GIS mapping program.

USA

Magellan GPS

THALES Navigation (formerly Magellan Corporation and THALES Navigation, SA) satellite access products.

USA

Mighty GPS.com

MightyGPS.com delivers best of breed GPS navigation and tracking solutions.

Canada

nano

nano is a website for reporting any 'navigation anomalies' when flying GA with GPS.

United Kingdom

Palmflying

Welcome to PalmFLYING.com, your one-stop site for handheld (PDA) aviation solutions. This site provides reviews (screenshots) for aviation software and hardware for the pilot or aviation enthusiast.

USA

PocketFMS, your portable co-pilot.

The shareware allows to prepare the flight, and to couple your PDA to GPS receiver when in flight to obtain a moving map. Once connected to a GPS receiver, PocketFMS´s Moving Map will guide you safely through any flight, to it be in Europe, Australia, Asia, the US, whereever.

Netherlands