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What's New
  

What's New, Voyager 4

Note:  The latest release is version 4.5.0.30453.  This document refers more generically to Voyager 4.  Click here for details about what changed in version 4.53.

Version 4 is the most significant Voyager upgrade ever!

We very strongly suggest reading the detailed What's New Guide that explains all the new features and how to use them.  Click the URL below to read it.

http://www.seattleavionics.com/documents/WhatsNewVoyager4.pdf

Summary
  • 50x faster charting engine.  Super-fast pans, zooms, jump to, etc.
  • 2D and 3D (HITS).  Version 4.1 adds 3D airspace.
  • Scanned Sectional and IFR charts on the main map.  Overlay flight plan line, weather, print, etc.
  • Completely redesigned GlassView module.
  • Better looking, more modern user interface.
  • Faster overall response time.  

Speed

  • Charting Engine 50x faster and draws much more realistic looking charts including terrain with shadows for a more pronounced 3D effect.
  • 2D and 3D charts (HITS).
  • Generally responds to clicks faster.
  • GlassView is faster to use because of many refinements.

Ease of Use

  • Choice of digital charts or scanned Sectionals, IFR Low or IFR High anywhere.  Mix “digital” and scanned data so you can overlay fuel prices, TFRs, radar/satellite, flight plan line etc. over a scanned Sectional.
  • Simplified selection of Layout and Themes.
  • New Chart button shows common (not all) themes and makes it easy to customize the chart.
  • Chart settings system reduced from two dialogs to one to make it easier to use and more discoverable.
  • Larger text and buttons everywhere.
  • A new Animated Weather feature on the Wx button quickly shows how the weather has changed in the last two hours.

Power

  • 3D views (HITS) in both preflight and GlassView.
  • New Personal Layouts feature lets you better customize what you see on the screen.
  • Many, many new features and refinements, especially in GlassView.  These include a Runway Picker, a way to intercept a radial or airway with Direct To, much easier modification of a flight plan while in flight and much more.

GlassView

  • Much, much faster!  Update speed is once per second rather than once every five seconds.
  • Can pan and zoom chart while the plane’s position continues to update.
  • Track Up works well no matter how many layers are turned on.
  • Super-fast, high resolution TAWS stays below other items on the screen.
  • Obstacle warnings.  Obstacles turn red when nearby and within 500 ft.  A warning message blinks at top of screen when obstacles are within two minutes at current speed.
  • New Gaugebar across the top is large and easy to read.
  • New Chartbar just below top makes it quick to turn layers on/off without clicking Cmd.
  • New Gauges widget shows all gauges, very large, on a tab in most layouts.
  • New Timer gauge (both count-up and count-down).  Click to toggle on/off or double-click to change count-down time or reset.
  • New Current Time (both Home and Zulu) gauge.
  • New Lat/Lon gauge.  Click to add a Personal Waypoint at that spot.
  • Simplified buttons mean no need to click Cmd for common tasks or use the Themes menu.  Theme selection now under new Chart button not under the Wx button.
  • New CDI/Glideslope gauge.
  • New inflight QuickInfo boxes use large fonts to show just the information you need when you click on the Chart.  Options include Direct To, Add to FP, Jump To, and more.  Can automatically hide after five seconds or stay “sticky” like Post It Notes.  Distance/bearing updates every five seconds so you can leave several on screen at the same time to intercept two VORs, etc.
  • New Add to FP (+FP) feature makes it easy to modify the flight plan enroute.
  • Option to show extended courseline.
  • New Personal Layouts let you pre-select the range, theme, 2D vs. 3D, etc. for every chart on a Layout.  Can set your Personal Layout as the default GV layout
  • New Runway Selector lets you pick a landing runway.  Adds either a standard VFR pattern (both left and right-handed) or a synthetic (virtual) ILS approach including glideslope.  Suggests best runway based on winds.  For an ILS, shows standard ILS “feathers” to the runway
  • Direct To can intercept a radial or an airway.
  • Airport Info widget graphically displays the surface winds relative to the runways.  If the airport has no METARs/TAFs, wind info is pulled from nearest airport with winds.
  • Can change the planned altitude of a leg enroute.
  • Clicking an airport on the Chart does not force the Airport Widget back to the General or Weather tab but keeps it selected on whatever tab was previously selected.  Thus, you can quickly check the weather at several airports by clicking each on the chart.
  • The XM module now downloads and processes XM Winds Aloft data.
  • Voyager now monitors the status of the XM data connection and automatically restarts it if it detects a problem.

Other Changes and Fixes

  • Voyager 4.0 includes a new, more modern color scheme.
  • When showing general airspace, you can hide TFRs to show the underlying airspace.
  • All METARs/TAFs now downloaded all the time, rather than just those along a flight plan line, so there are no more issues with starting a chart at one location, panning far away, and not seeing TAFs/METARs at the new location.
  • Support for the new FAA TAF format added (version 4.1).
  • Fixed: Download AOPA FBO Info.
  • Fixed: Problem with downloading some METARs.
  • Fixed: Wx color dots on the Nearest widget did not update correctly as time changes and new data is downloaded.
  • Fixed:  Problem with the TAFs date being decoded incorrectly in very rare instances.
  • Default Chart tool is now the Hand not the Pointer.
  • For very short displays like the original Samsung Q1 in Landscape mode, the NavLog now hides the Plan area so there is plenty of space for the Waypoints.  In this case, a button on the NavLog toolbar (the Up and Down arrows) toggles the display of the Plan area on and off.
  • Printing a Chart (the print button above the chart) shows exactly what’s on the screen, including the flight plan line.
  • New way to delete old and unused flight plans, planes, pilots, etc. from Web Synch.  From within the Web Synch dialog box, click Delete old items from Web Synch.
  • The Chart’s Distance and Bearing tool now shows a circle at the selected range as well as the line so it’s easy to see all the points of interest, regardless of direction, a specific distance from a given point.