FlightPrep Insider
A bulletin for
FlightPrepTM users

Volume 2, Issue 17
December 18, 2006

Tip of the Month:
Holiday shopping has begun. We are doing everything we can to keep tablets and accessories in stock.

We suggest placing your holiday orders early to ensure we can ship to make your gifts arrive on time.

Current Versions:
*ChartCase Professional 2006 v.3.0.6
*ChartCase Express v.3.1.1
*ChartCase E
FB 2.5.14
*Golden Eagle Plus FlightPrep 2.5.14
*Golden Eagle FlightPrep 3.0.6

Current Datasets:
11/23/2006 - 12/21/2006
*ChartCase Professional, Express, & EFB
*Golden Eagle Plus
-and-
11/23/2006 - 01/18/2007
*GoldenEagle Flightprep

News from Aurora, Oregon.

Special Christmas Issue - regular features will return in the next edition of the FlightPrep Insider


* Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays
Our best wishes for a happy and safe holiday season. We are pleased to offer a "Seasonal Special" with our Super Christmas Sale. This could be a great year-end expense to make as your final business purchases for year ending 2006. Combine our sale pricing and a possible business expense, and it's a great time to add FlightPrep products to your airplane and make your flying easier.

* Super Christmas Sale #2
Do you want to save $50 off ChartCase Professional? Give the best EFB program as a gift before Christmas and we'll discount it $50 as our gift to you! Buy ChartCase Professional now and mention this special to the Sales person helping with your order. Regularly priced at $395 on sale now for just $345.

Do you want to save $25 off ChartCase Express? Give our popular cockpit-optimized moving map program now and we'll discount it $25. Buy ChartCase Express now and tell the Sales rep about this special "newsletter only" offer. Regularly priced at $295 on sale now for only $270!

Hurry, and call our Sales staff now at (503) 678-4360. This special offer expires December 24th! To take advantage of this offer, you must mention the FlightPrep Insider Newsletter, Volume 2 Issue 17. Sorry, this offer is not valid on any prior sales.

*** New Customer Information System coming to FlightPrep! ***
FlightPrep wants to improve upon the service we offer to you. Part of the challenge of any growing business is providing faster, easier, and more complete access to your information to the staff working to help you. Over Thanksgiving we began our transition to a new back-end information system.

The first step is our new mail server. Within the next few weeks we will start sending this newsletter from this new server so PLEASE ENSURE YOU ADD newsletter@flightprep.com TO YOUR PERMITTED SENDERS LIST. Thank you!

* FlightPrep Opens eBay Store
Announcing FlightPrep's new eBay Store! With the overwhelming popularity of online auctions and the huge amount of eBay shopping for Christmas and the Holidays it is a great time to check out the great deals from FlightPrep on eBay. We would like to invite you to tour FlightPrep's eBay store front as it's finishing up construction at http://stores.ebay.com/FlightPrep The eBay store will be the future of unbelievable deals on FlightPrep software, hardware, and demo equipment that you cannot find anywhere else! Here's a sample: A demo WxWorx Bluetooth Weather receiver and bidding starts at just $500! So visit us on eBay and subscribe to our eBay newsletters, special offers, and RSS!

* Demo FlightPrep products in our office
Do you wish you could see the latest tablet computers for yourself? Please, be our guest. Literally, please be our guest! We have more and more customers stopping by our office. We are conveniently located at the Aurora State Airport (KUAO), just south of Portland, Oregon. We are glad to schedule a demo where you can log some dual and get hands-on time where we'll answer your questions. Sometimes customers schedule to picking up their new systems directly from the office. Give us call, set up an appointment, and make our office at Aurora one of your next destinations!

* Internet Download Feature Update
Our Beta testing process is proceeding well.
We are targeting January 2007 as our release date. The update tool is a small program that resides in your existing FlightPrep software library. It permits manual or automated checking for any available updates. When it finds updates, it downloads compressed files to your system and then unpacks them into the data files used by your software product. All this takes place without any additional effort on your part.
After the FlightPrep Subscription tool is installed, you may decide to discontinue the discs delivered by the postal service. We'll have an announcement here when the product becomes available.

* ChartBook Packages deliver the best of everything we have to offer
More and more often we hear from pilots who are looking for a comprehensive package to meet their flying needs. Most frequently, these customers require a complete solution for their own flying or for their entire flight department. FlightPrep recognized this need and we created our new ChartBook series of complete EFB solutions. The M5000 series is based upon our popular Motion Computing LS800 tablet systems. We assembled the most demanded options into a single product, ChartBook. The M5000 series is available in both single seat and Captain/ F.O. configurations. Check out our web page to learn more about ChartBook.


* Solid State tablet available at FlightPrep!
FlightPrep now carries the long-awaited solid state equipped tablet that removes altitude limitations! FlightPrep now offers the Samsung Q1 with SSD. Our initial tests have shown the tablet runs ChartCase software up to 40% faster than with a traditional hard disc. Now pilots flying un-pressurized equipment in the mid-teens up to the flight levels can fully utilize their tablets without the worry of possible hard drive failures.

We offer the Samsung Q1 equipped with touch-screen display as the platform for our Top-Pick ChartCase Professional software. We included in the package our new BT-338 Bluetooth GPS that averages an amazing 15 hours of battery life. Also included is the popular WxWorx Bluetooth Weather receiver as well as our 2 way power adapter that feeds both the Samsung tablet and the WxWorx receiver in flight

Solve the problem of paper in the cockpit at any altitude with our new ChartCase Q1-SSD Platinum package. See the web site for all the details and to place your order. Please note: due to anticipated demand there may be a delivery delay in shipping your package so we recommend you call soon!

* Google links permit you to customize your search options
The software engineers found a creative way to fine tune your search results to increase the odds your Google searches will return more aviation-oriented content. Subscribed Links allow users who add FlightPrep as a trusted source to see custom search results in their Google search results. Just click here to add FlightPrep.Com as a trusted link and Google will add us to your approved profile. Note: you need to have a free Google account Use this link to create a Google account.

If you have a topic you'd like us to handle, send me a message and I'll cover it in a coming edition of the FlightPrep Insider. You can find our contact info at the bottom of this message. Give us a call if we can help you. Thanks for reading our newsletter! Your editor, John Bouyea

ChartCase ExpressTM & ChartCase Pro 2006TM

*** ERRATA NOTICE ***
After the FAA shipped the new Approach Plates, they notified us 2 plates (TACAN RWY5 & LOC-DME RWY 5) for Homestead ARB, FL (KHST ) are missing. To expedite the shipping of your software and updates, we built and shipped your discs last week. In the event you want to add those approaches to your collection, please visit the FlightPrep web site and download the required files. Together they total about 65MB. Instructions are detailed on the download page.

*ChartCase Express streamlines startup process
When pilots start the new ChartCase Express program, it immediately brings up the InFlight interface to display clear and crisp charts, maps, and plates. The GPS receiver inputs current position information. The XM/Wx weather data overlays the Weather screen automatically.

The InFlight screen design comes directly from pilot input. That makes ChartCase Express a natural fit for the cockpit unlike most desktop Windows programs squeezed into the airplane. AOPA editor Julie Boatman reviewed the ChartCase InFlight interface in the July 2006 issue of AOPA Pilot magazine. Boatman writes, "basic functions are easy to access: Flight-plan creation and use were straightforward and the tabs made information logical to find... 'Easy to read, large, easy to scroll' was one tester's comment."

When the computer is configured to start ChartCase Express automatically on boot-up, it is similar to switching on a panel-mounted avionics device; the GPS and weather receivers are automatically connected and begin displaying current position and weather data shortly after the airplane is rolled out of the hanger. You can configure your laptop or tablet to auto-start ChartCase. Find our guidelines in the TechTips column on the FlightPrep web site.

With almost all the features of ChartCase Pro's InFlight mode (no high level IFR charts) Express meets the requirements we heard loud and clear. The ChartCase Express program is available with updates services of 3, 6, and 13 times a year offering flexibility in currency and pricing to meet every pilot's needs.

FlightPrep offers ChartCase Express with prices beginning at $295.00.

Motion Computing News

We have a few LS800s in stock for a end-of-year purchase. Check out our Tablet Configurator on the web site and build your dream system (or get a package for your dream pilot!)

The new LS800 RAM Mounts are in stock. Pricing for the LS800 mount (including the yoke clamp) is just $67.95. Options exist for the LE1600 too. Call Audrie or Rick @ (503) 678-4360 for more information.

Motion Computing offers display films to protect the View Anywhere screens. We offer these films if you want to add an extra layer of protection to your tablet investment. They are trimmed to the exact size required for both the LE1600 and LS800 model tablets. Priced at $59.99 for LE1600 and $49.99 for LS800 can get a package of three films headed your way. Just call Audrie and Rick to take your order.

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