Beta-Test Airport Facility Directory and EXPERIMENTAL Installer

26 JUN 2009

Subscribers are now welcome to beta-test Reader Plates with an integrated Airport/Facility Directory. We've taken all of the Airport information pages from the FAA A/FDs and merged them into our approach plate books. So along with the Airport Diagrams, SIDs, STARs, Minimums, and Approaches, these new books include a "Airport Facility Directory" menu item for each airport. And the supplemental portions of the A/FD volumes are also included as separate books for each region.

Both the regular version of Reader Plates and versions with the A/FD can be downloaded using our new Experimental Installer, which is also available for beta-testing. The new Installer can be found here. Just replace your current Installer v1.33 with the latest EXPERIMENTAL Installer (currently version 1.4003.) In addition to providing access to Reader Plates with an integrated A/FD, the new Installer also makes better use of fast connections, allows restarting aborted downloads without repeating downloads, and lays the groundwork for even more features to come.