Version 1.3.2c, Internet released 12FEB2010.

• CHANGED: Due to a change in the weather interface of one of our MeteoData providers, no weather data could be downloaded anymore. Version 1.3.2c fixes this.

Version 1.3.2, Internet released 07DEC2009.

• CHANGED: <APPEARANCE HideTaskBar="1"/> has been added to pndpocketfms.xml and default editing template User Interface templates.
• CHANGED: PFMS previously copied directories below the main Flight Plan directory, causing big delays on some systems. This has been changed so that PocketFMS now only copies the main Flight Plan directory.
• CHANGED: "Airspace Boundary Flashing Time" is changed to "Airspace/Obstacle Flashing Time."
• CHANGED: After selecting a Mobile UI file, the text "Please use the SD Card transfer to update the SD Card for your Mobile Device." is changed into "Sync/Prepare SD card to implement the new selection.".
• CHANGED: Flight Plan LIB's heading tooltip text now reads "The heading...".
• CHANGED: Flight Plan LIB's track tooltip text now reads "The course...".
• CHANGED: On the PC, File | Properties, GPS Tab, "New breadcrumb File with every Enable GPS" changed into "New breadcrumb every day."
• CHANGED: The tab of the AP tab of the properties page on the Mobile Device has been made smaller.
• CHANGED: The text on the Zaon tab of the properties page on the Mobile version has been changed to "Default Alt".
• CHANGED: The tool tip "The direction the Wind is coming from, will be automatically detected if you download METARs & TAFs." in the Flight Plan LIB is changed into "The direction the wind is coming from will be automatically displayed if MeteoData is downloaded".
• CHANGED: File | Properties, text "Activate ActiveSync for transfer." is changed into "Activate ActiveSync/Sync Center/Windows Mobile Device Center for transfer".
• FIXED: When downloading AeroData while an Own Chart was activated, PocketFMS would crash. This is now fixed by auto-closing all active Own Charts.
• FIXED: A problem with switching between Arc and Rose modes on the PC existed.
• FIXED: After downloading AeroData it was not possible anymore to use Own Charts.
• FIXED: It's now possible to use the up and down keys in the selection of the Flight Plan window and Comms & Info window when using the LS800CHKLST.xml definition.
• FIXED: PocketFMS now handles the situation where a sync is attempted, but ActiveSync has not been installed on the PC.
• FIXED: The airport comms in the USA are now shown on the Moving Map, when so selected.
• IMPROVED: Communications text now gets sorted by COMMTYPE when viewing object info.
• IMPROVED: Data fields on the MAP tab of the properties page on the Mobile version have been made bigger to improve clarity.
• IMPROVED: Excel NavLogPt Colm Farrell.xls has been updated.
• IMPROVED: In the File | Properties, GPS tab the fonts have been changed to improve the look.
• IMPROVED: Support for memory sticks has been improved.
• IMPROVED: The checking of file time stamps has been improved, which will lead to faster ActiveSync times.
• IMPROVED: The layout of the AVOID screen on the Mobile version has been improved so that it looks better.
• IMPROVED: The multi threaded build of maps on the Mobile version has been improved, resulting in much faster first image display times.
• IMPROVED: The performance of PocketFMS while zooming & panning the map has been improved.
• IMPROVED: The properties page on the Mobile version now supports screen rotation.
• IMPROVED: The spacing of the three buttons on the W&B screen has been improved.
• IMPROVED: The user manual has been updated.
• IMPROVED: The warning message concerning a failed start of PocketFMS which was likely due to the memory stick option will now only get displayed once, and at the same time the memory stick option gets disabled.
• IMPROVED: Time taken to sync/prepare an SD card has been improved.
• IMPROVED: If any data download is attempted without having at least one FIR selected, PocketFMS will display the FIR selection dialog. This can only be closed once at least one FIR has been selected.
• NEW: Backlight control for Navigon 8410 has been implemented.
• NEW: A Cancel function is now available, which will allow keyboard only devices to escape from the flight selection screen.
• NEW: A new APPEARANCE option MMObjectSizeScale is available, controlling the size of objects on the Moving Map. As with all the scale parameters, it's scaled in in 10ths, so that 20 means 2x as big as original.
• NEW: A new Function ToggleSmartLIBInsert is available and set to on as default. If set to on, then when inserting a leg using Info Window or Search, PocketFMS will try to find the most "logical" place to insert the point. If set to off, then PocketFMS assumes the user has set the active leg, after which the new leg should be inserted.
• NEW: A new User Interface appearance option TrackLineMarkerMinutes is now available to control where the T-bar will be placed on the Extended Trackline (if enabled). When this is set to zero, then no marker will appear at all.
• NEW: Breadcrumb Import-Export now offers the option of splitting a file into multiple tracks if a time gap exceeding a nominated time exists.
• NEW: It's now possible to enter negative amounts using the Big Edit PAIM.
• NEW: It's now possible to scroll up and down the FIR/ARTCC list using the mouse scroll wheel.
• NEW: LS800CHKLST.xml and UMPC with Touchscreen and Default Buttons.xml are changed so that the Escape key is assigned to the new Cancel function.
• NEW: PocketFMS will now highlight the obstacle being warned about using a flashing circle, if either obstacle popup or obstacle warning sound is enabled.
• NEW: The Breadcrumb Convert tool has a revised interface and now supports splitting a breadcrumb file if it has a specified time gap.
• NEW: The UI Editor launcher now offers a choice between loading the currently selected Mobile UI or the currently selected PC UI. If a Default UI is currently selected, the equivalent Default Editing UI is loaded.
• NEW: To speed-up GPS connection times, PocketFMS Mobile now stores for each different device it runs on the COMport and baud rate it finds during autodetect or manual set, and uses that the next time PocketFMS gets used on the same device. This speeds up GPS connection times significantly.
• NEW: When "Add Object" is executed on a PDA or Smartphone, PocketFMS will try to enable the SIP button so a user can edit the data fields.
• NEW: When a user selects Insert Flight Plan after a search result, PocketFMS now automatically determines what leg the new waypoint best fits into and adjusts the Flight Plan accordingly.
• NEW: When using the Insert Flight Plan button on an object information window, PocketFMS now automatically determines what leg the new waypoint best fits into and adjusts the Flight Plan accordingly.
• NEW: WX radar overlay is now also available via the menu bar in the desktop version of PocketFMS.
• NEW: Zooming in or out now resets the timer for recentering of the PlotPlane.

Version 1.3.1, Internet released 28OCT2009.

• ADVANCED: When performing an SD card preparation, a network drive can be selected as destination if registry key HKCU\Software\Wad\pocketfms\settings\AllowNetworkDrivesAsMobileDestination (=RG_DWORD) is found with a value of 1.
• ADVANCED: When doing File | Sync/Prepare SD Card for Mobile Device, PocketFMS checks if a directory called InstallPocketFMSHere exists. If so, it install PocketFMS in there as if that was the root of the SD Card. This is only to be used by experts that know how to create shortcuts etc, and is mainly created for devices that have large storage capacity to allow multiple applications on that singe storage device.
• CHANGED: ActiveSync can be re-activated using File | Properties, option "Activate ActiveSync for Transfer" (on by default) . When ticked, when the user does File | Sync/Prepare SD Card for Mobile Device, PocketFMS will ask if it should search for ActiveSync connected devices to install PocketFMS on. Still it's important that a PocketFMS-dedicated SD card is used!
• CHANGED: When PocketFMS MemStick version runs, and the message "PocketFMS can not be run from a removable storage device." is shown for some reason, PocketFMS now gives some more info to determine what caused the message to be displayed to help debug the problem.
• CHANGED: Version 1.2 XMLfile FlyingPocketPC.xml, PDA default editing template.xml, PocketPC ChkLst BigBut.xml, PocketPC ChkLst BigButton.xm and PocketPC ChkLst.xml are not valid anymore and will be deleted when PocketFMS desktop or Mobile is running.
• CHANGED: Memory stick support must explicitly be enabled first using File | Properties, 'Enable Memory Stick option' before PocketFMS will detect any memory sticks usable for preparation.
• CHANGED: Underlaid a new GPSBabel.exe: Changed so that in FlightPlan export to MapSource (GDB) format, NavAids & Australian VRP waypoint identifiers do not include the country code. All other exports keep the country code for now.
• CHANGED: On WM2003SE devices, PocketFMS would reboot the device on exit. This has been removed.
• CHANGED: Appn-Google Earth-Plan_TMG.hta has been updated to fixe an issue which occurred if the departure or arrival points in a Flight Plan did not have an elevation (eg. Placename) and the user requested the flight path to end at ground level. Now, when this occurs, the planned altitude is used to position the end of the flight path.
• FIXED: When entering an email address longer than 31 characters, PocketFMS would popup a message "parameter incorrect".
• FIXED: When the Mobile version was started on a PDA where the SIP (soft keyboard) button was visible (for example when doing Start -> programs (the bottom bar displays the SIP button), this SIP button was sitting in the way of PocketFMS during the entire session.
• FIXED: Tthe PocketFMS XML UI file had for the HP Hx4700 always a fixed COMPort of 7. It turned out this was not the case for many HP hx4700's, so it's been set to autodetect again.
• FIXED: When using activesync, an ActiveSync filehandle was used in a normal win32 call, leading to unexpected results like open files.
• FIXED: Appn-NAIPS Online Notification.exe complained about a missing ocx.
• FIXED: ExportFile-MultiFormat.hta .ert export was not working.
• IMPROVED: An updated version of Appn-NAIPS Online notification.exe that does not depend on mswinsck.ocx is included.
• IMPROVED: Mobile Device: when the message gets displayed the AeroData is out of date, it also now lists the Cycle ID it should be. This helps to determine what the clock is set to on the device.
• IMPROVED: When using black themes on a PDA, PocketFMS now displays certain text better visible instead of black text on black background.
• IMPROVED: PocketFMS XML FlightPlan docs now contain high-ASCII characters like the German Umlaut too. Up to now these characters where replaced by {x}.
• NEW: When using ActiveSync, PocketFMS will also create a PocketFMS start icon (shortcut) in Start -> Programs, for those devices that do not allow the Today screen modified (some Windows Mobile Smartphones with advanced today screens like some HTC's with TouchFlo.)
• NEW: Memory Stick crash protection. It is proven a small number of USB devices (often embedded card readers in laptops) can cause PocketFMS to crash on startup (more specifically, u3dapi10.dll from www.u3.com crashes). We have no control over this dll, and we need it to support to run PocketFMS on memory stick. When PocketFMS crashes on such a system, it leaves a tag in the registry (HKCU\Software\wad\pocketfms\Settings\u3dapi10dllCrashProtection, DWORD, non-zero value means do not use memstick support). Next time when PocketFMS starts on this system it will disable the memory stick support and post a message it has done so; at least the user can now continue and no longer crashes.

Version 1.3.0, Internet released 11OCT2009.

• DEFINITION: When a displays x > y AND y >= 460 then we call it AdvancedLandscape.
• CHANGED: APPEARANCE tag MultiThreadedBuildDisplay has been set to 1 instead of 0 for the PC version.
• CHANGED: The message that asks to 'connect to the internet now' contains a line this message can be removed using File | Properties.
• CHANGED:The [Docs] button in the flight planning window is changed into [Views] button.
• CHANGED: The flight plan XML schema reference has been changed into http://www.PocketFMS.com/XMLSchema/PocketFMSNavlog-2.0.0.xsd.
• CHANGED: When adding or removing FIRs, PocketFMS cleared the current AeroDataset. This has been changed, existing data will be retained until the next AeroData download. When the user changes the FIR list, the message "Warning: You have changed your list of FIRs. You must download AeroData now first using Internet | Aerodata to get the actual data for the newly added FIRs." will be displayed.
• CHANGED: Rapi.dll is no longer included in the setup to avoid conflicts on Windows 7. The use of rapi.dll is delayloaded now, this means if rapi.dll is not available on a system and the user does File | Prepare/Sync using ActiveSync, a crash might occur. Keep this in mind when this happens, make sure ActiveSync is installed.
• CHANGED: When WX download is initiated, PocketFMS will display the progress indicator top left on the Moving Map even if WX is disabled for the duration of the WX download.
• CHANGED: NavLog XML FuelConsumptionVx, FuelConsumptionVy, FuelConsumptionCruise, FuelConsumptionHolding, FuelConsumptionApproach now display units/HR instead of just units.
• CHANGED: When preparing a memorystick, PocketFMS removes any \\\ and changes it into \, also "program files" gets changed into "Program Files" for better looking.
• CHANGED: Warning message when FIRs are changed.
• CHANGED: When starting a memorystick preparation for PocketFMS you're asked for confirmation first.
• CHANGED: Appearance option PDASHOWCOMMANDBAR, when set to 1, MovingMap A and B and Comms&Info will still not display the commandbar, while all the other windows will, so the Moving Map windows are still full screen. To have the commandbar visible on the Moving Maps add 2 to PDASHOWCOMMANDBAR=2, to have the commandbar visible on the Comms&Info page too, add 4.
• CHANGED: "New breadcrumb on every enable GPS" has changed to "New breadcrumb every day".
• CHANGED: From the PND/PDA version the monitor screen has been removed since all displayed items are now located elsewhere. This saves another screen page.
• CHANGED: The GPS Serial interface has been rebuilt from scratch to get rid of the performance impact it had. As a result, testing of the AP, ZAON and FLARM interfaces should be done carefully before relying on them.
• CHANGED: In the Mobile version, Airspace hide limits, AGL setting, flasing time and jumpback settings have been moved to the advanced settings, tab "Map". At the same time Advanced Settings has become Settings.
• CHANGED: GPS tab on the PND, Seption text changed into Seperation.
• CHANGED: On the PC Zaon settings and AP settings were a different settings than the other property pages
• CHANGED: Units tab, "RWY Dimensions" changed toi "Runways".
• CHANGED: The option File | Prepare/Sync using ActiveSync will now be disabled if no ActiveSync is installed on the computer.
• CHANGED: On The PND/PDA versions the flight planning options "Auto calculate crossed airspaces for each LIB" and "Auto calculate max Terrain Height for each LIB" are now OFF by default to improve default performance.
• CHANGED: Text "No SD Card has been found, or the SD Card has not been initialized by de Mobile Device yet. Proces is aborted." was changed to "No SD Card has been found, or the SD Card has not yet been initialized by de Mobile Device. Proces is aborted."
• CHANGED: Flight Plan Window, "T/O TIme" changed to "T/O".
• CHANGED: Settings page | Sounds tab, lines are spaced more for better readability.
• CHANGED: Various tools are amended by Ron.
• CHANGED: New Breadcrumb Convert.exe and PFMSUI.Exe from Tobias are put into the External Tools dir.
• CHANGED: Removed the tab stops from the entryfields in WB parameters because tabbing was weird anywway.
• CHANGED: Removed tab stops from all flight plan buttons.
• CHANGED: PDAPocketFMSUi.xml, PNDPocketFMSUI.XML and associated default editing templates got the line <POCKETFMS xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
• CHANGED: External tools picker hides pfmsgpx.exe and toolshelp.chm.
• CHANGED: A "Dead area" of pixel movements (5-19 pixels) is introduced to prevent accidentally popping up ToolInfo text.
• CHANGED: A few simple appearance fixes have been made to the Altitude Analysis window (blue background all the times, a bit less flickering). Not much done, since a major rework is planned for this one anyhow.
• CHANGED: In AD, "<Enter new name>" is changed into "Enter new name".
• CHANGED: Major rebuild of the PlotPlane recentering has been done.
• CHANGED: The installer now clears HKCU\Software\WAD\PocketFMS\PDAUIInputFile so any user who has a custom made xml file gets "Reset" to the new PND Default.
• CHANGED: The EULA bottom part has been cleaned up and now clearly marks the beginning of "For support Purposes".
• CHANGED: The WAIVER now clearly mentions "PocketFMS Disclaimer Agreement".
• CHANGED: Button text "EULA" is changed into "View EULA".
• CHANGED: On the Flight Plan window, [Add leg] is changed to [+ Leg].
• CHANGED: On the PND, StickyMenu WX Options, functions DownloadWXData, MapWXImage, DownloadWXRadias and MapClickIsWXInfo have the attribute HideMenuOnExecute=1 added.
• CHANGED: "Remove Breadcrumb files from Mobile Device" is now turned on by default.
• CHANGED: A PDA running Windows Mobile 2003SE will get rebooted automatically when PocketFMS exists to get rid of some left-overs.
• CHANGED: Section 1.1 of the EULA has been amended.
• FIXED (IMPORTANT): Some GPS receivers (for example Centrality Titan used in HP 31x and Navigon 7210) send more than 12 data records for satellite info. As a result, a buffer overrun took place since PocketFMS only held room for 12 satellites max. This could cause all kind of weird unpredictable behavior.
• FIXED: Smart File dialog (FilePicker) now adjusts text color to non-black when in night mode so text is visible again.
• FIXED: The flight plan XML ICAOEndurance tag in the flight plan data XML file rounded hours too, as a result wrongly formatted ICAO endurance strings could be generated.
• FIXED: When editing FuelCruise for an aircraft, this new value was only saved if another item was changed too.
• FIXED: Default Wind direction unit could not be changed, this has been fixed.
• FIXED: NavLog XML data: Reserve Fuel was Reserve Fuel in minutes + contingency fuel, while it should be reserve fuel in minutes only.
• FIXED: A CRC error was triggered because GetMS() in a LIB did not use a critical section.
• FIXED: NavLog XML did not correctly jump to a new day for TakeoffDateUTC and DOF when local timezone time should have done so.
• FIXED: Adding or removing user objects caused the screen to flash unneeded.
• FIXED: European WX Radar download works again. This works only for version 1.3.0 and higher.
• FIXED: There where problems with the PND Version when "New breadcrumbfile on every enable GPS" was ticked, often resulting in zero size breadcrumb files. This has been fixed, by doing a new breadcrumb file only if the longitude-corrected UTC day is different then the one the last new breadcrumbfile was created.
• FIXED: On landscape displays the PND version now uses full width to display the EULA / terms of use text.
• FIXED: Recenter PlotPlane did not always work.
• FIXED: The Settings screen prevented StickyButtons from being handled.
• FIXED: When rotating from Landscape to Portrait, PocketFMS did not use the bottom area reserved for the commandbar.
• FIXED: Creating an SD Card for a device using the Memstick version could give the error "Unable to read required data from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE....."
• FIXED: Various issues fix with the "ExcludeStickyButtonsFromMovingMapArea=1" appearance settings.
• FIXED: ON the PND the [Page Opt] were enabled when in the settings screen.
• FIXED: After a SD Card sync transfered breadcrumbs were not removed.
• FIXED: Background of ZAON and AP tabs were different from the other tabs.
• FIXED: On the Moving Map, EET for the next waypoint did not adhere to the user-configured timespan unit. As a result EET can now be displayed in seconds there.
• FIXED: The Airplane selection window did not fit on portrait screens.
• FIXED: Editing an existing waypoint using PAIM was a real pain in the !@%%.
• FIXED: When using search it was not possible to toggle between 123 and ABC layouts.
• FIXED: Multiple Early Descend points, see here.
• FIXED: The Fligh Plan XML Data now writes correctly above mentioned data in case an obstacle is used as waypoint.
• FIXED: When panning around, moving the mouse without clicking would cause PocketFMS NOT to reset to the PlotPlane position after the <jumpback> seconds. From then on the PlotPlane position would never get reset again unless a zoom was done.
• FIXED: UIR airspace type colors could not be set using File | Properties.
• FIXED: The HSI on the Dashboard page was overlapped by the command bar in portrait mode.
• FIXED: When Tooltip Info was displayed on the Moving Map on the PND, switching to a different page would not dismiss the tooltip.
• FIXED: When Altitude Analysis was displayed together with WX Radar, the Alt Analysis window would flicker a lot.
• FIXED: When viewing the logbook on the PND from a StickyButton, on return the screen was blank.
• FIXED: Function ViewLogBook now works on the PC version too.
• FIXED: PageOpt toggle for Moving Map A, Moving Map B and WindCalc did not work.
• FIXED: Moving Map settings did not fit on Mio Portrait.
• FIXED: The [Ok] / [Cancel] buttons in the Logbook and File selection is placed at the bottom so more lines become usable.
• FIXED: On some computers (laptops) where the SD Card reader was directly connected to the USB host controller, PocketFMS would not allow to prepare for a SD Card sync, because it figured it was running from a memorystick.
• FIXED: A left-over from v2.0 "DPIFactor" was still used by the PND to scale some fonts. This has been eleminated.
• FIXED: Info mode for a LIB displayed ETO incorrectly as for example 25:00 when the time passed trhough midnight.
• FIXED: PlotPlane recenter timings where only read at start.
• FIXED: With OneTouch off, when editing an existing waypoint, the PAIM would not clear the text.
• FIXED: When displaying a latitude in adding a waypoint, a 3 digit latitude was displayed, this is changed into 2 digits.
• FIXED: When emptying a longitude using the spacebar while adding a user waypoint, PocketFMS displayed N instead of E.
• IMPROVED : PAIM now accepts a single click on a label's text. This will open the PAIM's bigedit, and makes editing on a PDA/PND much easier since no double-click is needed anymore. This behaviour is controllable with APPEARANCE option SingleClickPAIM. If set to 1, a single click will open the bigedit, any other value will require a double-click to open the bigedit.
• IMPROVED: Navigon 8110 backlight brightness can be controlled.
• IMPROVED: PocketFMS' own FilePicker used for selecting Flight plans and Externals Tools now has a horizontal scrollbar too.
• IMPROVED: Airplanes in the aircraft window are now sorted.
• IMPROVED: The mouse wheel can be used to zoom in and out.
• IMPROVED: Map panning can now be done using drag & drop too.
• IMPROVED: PocketFMS WX font handling has been totally revised and should work on all devices now, since there is no need to install the font in a system directory anymore.
• IMPROVED: Some small changes have been made to the PND Flight Plan window to make it fit better on Portrait displays.
• IMPROVED: The Dashboard screen has been modified so the HSI doesn't become so small on some PDAs and PNDs.
• IMPROVED: OBS Settings in a LIB are now saved to a flight plan file.
• IMPROVED: If an SD card gets prepared, PocketFMS checks if there is already a known plane position on the SD card. If not, it copies its own to the SD Card so the first time a user turns on his PND with PocketFMS the plane position is the same as on the PC.
• IMPROVED: The installer executables are now codesigned, meaning the PocketFMS Foundation is now considered a trustworthy supplier of software according to Windows.
• NEW: The flight planning window is now AdvancedLandscape aware. PocketFMS will switch to a different LIB layout to make things look better. At the same time Leg ATE is removed to create room.
• NEW: The Dashboard window is advancedLandscape aware. It wil display an HSI next (or below in case of portrait) the "numbers" display.
• NEW: CE CarNav Device Panasonic Strada (CN-GP50) is supported by adding SDAuto.exe
• NEW: A new function PFMSExternalTools is available on the PC. When executed (Default File | Run External Tool), PocketFMS lists all files in C:\Program Files\PocketFMS\ExternalToolsDir (except files called pfmsui.exe) and allows the user to execute one. Default we ship a Settings Manager (to save your settings and/or load default settings like FAA color styles etc), a breadcrumb converter/exporter and a waypoint importer. NOTE: External tools are supposed to store their data in <PersonalStorage>\ExternalAppStorage directory, that one is created by the PocketFMS installer.
• NEW: When the desktop version gets started it writes the current user storage directory (depends on driveletter assigned to memstick for example) to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Pocketfms, key PocketFMSUserStorageRoot.
• NEW: A new Excel flight view has been added called Excel NavLogPt Colm Farrell.xls
• NEW: A new Excel flight view has been added called Excel NavLogPt-Klaus-Dieter Schoenborn.xltm
• NEW: PocketFMS Flightplans can be reviewed in Google Earth (optionally with breadcrumb from the actual flight) using Appn-Google Earth-Plan & TMG.hta as View in a flight plan.
• NEW: PocketFMS flight plans can be uploaded to various Garmin devices by a Direct USB link using Appn-Garmin Direct.hta as View in a flight plan.
• NEW: PocketFMS flight plans can be uploaded to various Magellan devices by a Direct USB link using Appn-Magellan Direct.hta as View in a flight plan.
• NEW: PocketFMS flight plans can be exported using ExportFile-MultiFormat.hta.to various formats:
  • AN1 (DeLorme),
  • CSV (Comma-delimited text),
  • ERT (MGL Panels eg. Enigma),
  • FPL (Garmin Panels eg. G1000),
  • GPX (Generic transfer format),
  • IGC (SeeYou),
  • ITN (TomTom Itinerary),
  • KML (Google Earth),
  • RTE (OziExplorer),
  • TRK (Magellan MapSend),
  • USR (Lowrance).
• NEW: PocketFMS can write SD Cards directly to be used on Garmin 430 / 530 / G1000 / G600 / G900x devices to store flight plans using ExportFile-MultiFormat.hta.
• NEW: PocketFMS flight plans can be directly submitted as an online Australian Flight Notification using Appn-NAIPS-Aust online flt notification.hta as View in a flight plan.
• NEW: The flight plan XML has a new attribute called WaypointType, and can be one of the following:
  • runway,
  • NDB,
  • TACAN,
  • VORTAC,
  • VOR,
  • fix,
  • obstacle,
  • airport,
  • userobject,
  • VFRreportingpoint,
  • IFRreportingpoint,
  • DME,
  • place.
• NEW: The flight plan XML data now has DetailedObjectInfo \ NavaidData \ NavaidFrequency and DetailedObjectInfo \ NavaidData \ NavaidHasDME in case waypointtype is a VOR, VORTAC, TACAN, NDB or DME.
• NEW: The PocketFMS installer now automatically installs MSXML6SP1 included in the setup msi file. We expect this gets rid of the various crashes that have been reported due to outdated msxml versions.
• NEW: Navlog XML data now has a new tag AlternatePoint, which lists detailed info about alternate airports just like when airports are used as destination or arrival.
• NEW: A new function PrepareMemoryStick is created (Default File | Prepare for Memorystick Usage). When executed, PocketFMS will install itself after validation via the internet on a memorystick. By default only one memorystick per license is allowed.
• NEW: The currently selected breadcrumb file is stored in HKCU\Software\WAD\Settings\CurrentBreadcrumbfileBeingDisplayed.
• NEW: A new User Interface element is introduced, called STENCILBUTTON. A stencil button is "Stencilled" on the screen using a transparent-looking method and so creating a kind of "short-cut" option. The exact syntax is <STENCILBUTTON Function="ToggleStickyButtons" Image="Stencils\Menu104x52.bmp" Screen="MovingMapA" />. Since a full graphical screen is required for stencil buttons to work, allowed values for screen are currently MovingMapA, MovingMapB and CommsAndInfo. This new stencil button option has been used to create a menu, zoom in and zoom out button on the Moving Maps and a menu button on the CommsAndInfo window.
• NEW: A serverside administrative system is implemented to perform memorystick validation. Default every PocketFMS licensee is allowed to have one memorystick, Beta Crew members are set to 5.
• NEW: A new function ViewLogbook is available on the Mobile version.
• NEW: A new APPEARANCE option StartScreen is available on the PND/PNA: StartScreen. Values range from 0-8, specifying the first screen PocketFMS has to come up with (DASHBOARD=1, AIRPLANE=2, FLIGHTPLAN=3, MOVINGMAPA=4, MOVINGMAPB=5, WINDCALC=6, COMMINFO=7, SETTINGS=8.
• NEW: Two new APPEARANCE options can pre-fill the GPS COMPort and baud rate: GPSCommPort and GPSBaudRate. Both can be "Auto Detect" (case sensitive!) or "COM1:" - "COMxx:" format for COMPort and a valid baud rate number for baud rate. Default values are "Auto Detect".
• NEW: A new APPEARANCE option GPSAutoStart is available. When set to 1 the GPS interface wil automatically start when PocketFMS starts. This is the default value.
• NEW: A new XML Tag DEVICESPECIFIC DEVICEOEMID="{<OEMDEVICEID>}" is available. DEVICEOEMID is the ID unique to each PND, and can be used to control specific settings for those specific devices. Currently it used to set correct baud rates and COMPorts for GPS interfaces, but basically should be able to control everything within the tag like StickyButtons etc. The OEMID used by a specific device can be found at the bottom of the startup EULA text. When using this, please put the OEMID between { and }. At the moment this is used to prefill correct GPS COMPorts and baud rates for known devices.
• NEW: In the Mobile version, GPS COMPort and baud rate settings have been moved to the advanced settings screen.
• NEW: A new function GPSMonitorOnMap is available. When enabled, a small GPS signal bar will be displayed top right of the Moving Map.
• NEW: A new function BatteryMonitorOnMap is available. When enabled, a small Battery Power signal bar will be displayed top right of the Moving Map.
• NEW: A multi-info Tool is available (which is now the default behavior for mouse clicks instead of panning). This tool gives loads of info on nearby objects and airspaces, allowing for "Shortcurts" to add to Fligh Plan, get info, etc.
• NEW: When exiting the memstick version, PocketFMS now displays a progress indicator for saving the regmirror files, to prevent too early extraction of the memstick.
• NEW: Ron created an Excel NavlogLs-Advanced A5.xls as Flight Doc definition.
• NEW: Subsequent search actions will start with the result of the previous search.
• NEW: The fligh plan XML data now has DetailedObjectInfo\ObstacleData\ObstacleIsMultipleObjects, DetailedObjectInfo\ObstacleData\ObstacleIsEquipedWithLights, DetailedObjectInfo\ObstacleData\ObstacleIsEquipedWithLights , DetailedObjectInfo\ObstacleData\ObstacleHeightAGLFt, DetailedObjectInfo\ObstacleData\ObstacleHeightAMSLFt in case waypointtype is an Obstacle.
• NEW: Besides Parameter DEVICEOEMID we can also use DEVICEPLATFORM to control XML menu's. On PDA's this value is {PocketPC}, on PNDs this varies widely with every make/model, and can be viewed at the bottom of the EULA screen.
• NEW: Help menu has a new entries "Help on flightplan views", "Help on External Tools" and "Visit our website for Instruction videos"
• NEW: PocketFMS now stores & reloads last used Stylus mode between sessions.
• NEW: APPEARANCE option WarningMessageScale is available, to scale the WarningMessage window and font just like the other scaling appearance parameters, PAIMInputScale.
• NEW: The SD Card method now supports PDAs too! When a prepared PocketFMS SD Card is inserted into a PDA or smartphone, a PocketFMS shortcut will be created in the Today screen. This shortcut will automatically be removed when the SD Card is removed.
• NEW: A new function DummyFunction exists, this does - you guested it - nothing and can be used to create a blank button.
• NEW: To control the PlotPlane symbol size, a new APPEARANCE option PlaneSymbolScale is available. Up to now this plane symbol size was controlled by MMObjectTextScale, but that's no longer the case.
• NEW: A whole bunch of Mio Moov Devices are now supported.
• NEW: New FlightDocDefs, ExternalTools and DisplaySettings are included from Ron.
• NEW: A new APPEARANCE option StencilButtonScale is available to control the size of stencil buttons.
• NEW: A new function ToggleStencilButton is available. This will display/hide all stencilbuttons, except for the one itself.
• NEW: The TrackLine now contains a 10 minute marker.
• NEW: A new help file UIHelp.chm is added to the installer, will be installed in \program files\pocketfms.
• NEW: A new help option Help | Help on User Interface adjustments is available in the Desktop version.
• NEW: Two new appearance options are available: StencilbuttonDaymodeTransparency and StencilbuttonNightmodeTransparency. These can have a value between -255 (solid black) and 255 (solid white) to sharpen the visibility of stencil butttons. Default for day mode is -60 (minus 60), default for night mode is 60.
• NEW: A new executable called PocketFMSinet.exe is now shipped with PocketFMS, and located in ceEXE\genericwince where PocketFMS.exe also resides. This executable depends on winnet to download data through internet. PocketFMSLauncher.exe is adjusted so it detects whether a device/PND has wininet installed, if so, it launches pocketfmsinet.exe, otherwise it launches pocketfms.exe. The startup license text of pocketfms also displays wether or not wininet support is available. Result in general will be that PDAs will load PocketFMSinet.exe, whereas PocketFMS.exe gets loaded by PNDs.
• NEW: Flight plan XML file has a new item "RouteStringLatLon". This gives the routestring, but now only using lat/lon coords.
• NEW: When preparing a memstick, PocketFMS will also put a "StartPocketFMS.exe" in the root of that memstick. When the autorun/autoplay fails, a user can always use this StartPocketFMS.exe to start PocketFMS.

Version 1.2.1, Internet released 24NOV2008.

• CHANGED: Document templates which are equally applicable for Landscape or Portrait have been renamed without Ls or Pt.
• FIXED: The PocketFMSNavLog.XML file had incorrectly specified TT as unit for Magnetic track.
• FIXED: Incorrect Alternate fuel value.
• FIXED: Excel document templates would show a blank for heading, track, or wind values of 000.
• IMPROVED: Reference direction (M or T) for wind values is now shown in all NavLog templates.
• IMPROVED: In most NavLogs, a blank space is now shown when wind hasn’t been loaded into a Flight Plan, to allow for manual entry on the printed document.
• IMPROVED: Wind can now be removed from a Flight Plan leg by entering a wind direction of 0. Wind can be removed from all legs by entering 0 direction in the first LIB and clicking [RST W/V]. Enter 360 for a due north wind.
• IMPROVED: Saving Flight Plans and Document processing of Flight Plans now do verify if MSXML 6.0 or MSXML 3.0 is installed, to prevent crashing of PocketFMS during saving a Flight Plan or document processing.
• NEW: Added Alternate Approach Fuel to some templates so that Total Fuel now correctly (allowing for rounding) sums all shown fuel components.

Version 1.2.0, Internet released 14NOV2008.

ATTENTION: Aircraft data will get converted to a new format in this release. If you have added or modified aircraft definitions, please make sure you have a backup copy of airplanes.gpsdat before you install version 1.2.0 or higher!

• CHANGED: Because the [NavLog] button in the Desktop version now is much more than just a NavLog (like e.g. flight notification forms etc), its name was changed to [Docs].
• CHANGED: RNAV position defintions with 360 as radial now use radial 000 instead.
• CHANGED: When the option 'Auto-adjust planned altitude in case ROC/ROD is too high' is unticked, PocketFMS now no longer adjusts the planned altitude in case of descend to an arrival. Keep in mind TOD markers and indications in these situations are unreliable.
• CHANGED: Instead of <my documents>\PocketFMS\definitions\navlogs PocketFMS now uses <my documents>\PocketFMS\definitions\FlightDocDefs as source directory for NavLog forms etc.
• CHANGED:Instead of <my documents>\pocketfms\navlog to output generated flight documents like navlogs, PocketFMS now uses <my documents>\pocketfms\GeneratedFlightDocs.
• CHANGED: When enabling the GPS, during the GPS initialisation phase PocketFMS will now *always* log the serial trace to serialinput.txt and stop doing so when a valid GPS Receiver is found.
• CHANGED: NEMERIX GPS units (found in for example Navigon 21xx systems) are now programmed by PocketFMS to send the correct and required NMEA messages.
• FIXED: On the PDA & PND versions, visibility units were not kept during sessions.
• FIXED: The Default Editing template for the Windows version did not contain the 'Sync SD Card / ActiveSync PDA' options in the File menu.
• FIXED: Rubberbanding on some occasions did not reset the jumpback timer, resulting in annoying jumping back to PlotPlane position while rubberbanding.
• FIXED: With a Flight Plan loaded, then downloading WX data, then trying to switch screen could cause PocketFMS to run into a more or less endless loop if the Flight Plan had a fairly large number of legs.
• IMPROVED: The setup tutorial wizard had a few changes.
• IMPROVED: Runway dimensions can now be displayed either in meters or feet (File | Properties, Units tab).
• IMPROVED: Flight plan data is now stored in XML format. You can now design your own NavLog forms!
• IMPROVED: When pressing the [Docs] button, PocketFMS shows a list of all files found in <my documents>\pocketfms\definitions\navlog, except files of type .css. Depending on the extention (for example xls) PocketFMS launches the correct application to have the data viewed. For example, if the user selects an .xls file, PocketFMS will launch Excel in that case. By using for example custom Excel code (already included in the xls samples of PocketFMS) the newly opened file gets updated with the correct data. W&B data is also dumped, so you can create detailed W&B reports now too.
• IMPROVED: Various users report problems closing the Information Window for airspaces and objects because the top-right X is missing. This X is now added, but when pressed a message pops up explaining it's more convenient to just tap the center of the Information Window.
• IMPROVED: Descent profiling now - most of the time - prevents EOD/TOD combined markers on waypoints during a descend to arrival.
• NEW: File | Properties, Flightplanning Options tab now allows for a user name, tel & fax input, to be used on flight plan forms.
• NEW: PocketFMS can now print ATC flight plan forms based on your planned trip.
• NEW: File | Select Aircraft has a new option 'reserve fuel'.
• NEW: A new button [FP Data] is now available via File | Select Aircraft. It allows for the use of additional aircraft information like endurance, colors etc. for flight plan form use.
• NEW: Basic functionality was created to support the use of checklists in PocketFMS.
• NEW: Airplane specs now allow the enter a percentage contingency fuel.
• NEW: When the Info (I) button is pressed on a LIB, a RNAV info is displayed. A click on the RNAV text will display the LIB's latitude & longitude.
• NEW: The new international TAF time format has been implemented.
• NEW: A new function FPRESETWIND is available. When executed, PocketFMS takes the wind from the first LIB and copies that to all the other LIBs. A shortcut button [Rst W/V] is always available in the flight plan window.

Version 1.1.3, Internet released 08JUL2008.

• FIXED: PC version: When the user documents directory was stored on a network drive, displaying the NavLog would crash.
• FIXED: PND version: Various makes & models of CarNav devices could not get the GPS started. This fix is confirmed for the NV-618 and the Road Angel 7000 series, but is expected to work for many more.
• FIXED: PDA / PND version: When using the Advanced settings page to set / change the COMPort for the ZAON to be used, the change would not be effected until PocketFMS had been restarted.
• FIXED: When using the StickyButtons to edit a Flight Plan LIB on the PDA or PND often the PAIM would not activate, only when the menu was hidden it suddenly popped-up.
• FIXED: The sounds folder was not copied during sync.
• FIXED: The DME indicator D was no longer displayed with VORs that have a DME too.
• FIXED: Airspace info sometimes showed two ampersands rather than one.
• NEW: A bootloader file for the NavMan S90i has been added.

Version 1.1.2, Internet released 24JUN2008.

• NEW: Bootloader files for the NavMan S80 have been added.
• NEW: Bootloader files for the Road Angel Navigator 7000 have been added.
• FIXED: When a Flight Plan with a place name was saved, PocketFMS crashed.
• FIXED: When a fix was used in a Flight Plan, saving failed because of the ":" in the ID name.
• FIXED: On the Desktop version it was impossible to modify W&B points.
• FIXED: When preparing an SD card for the first time, personal settings were not transferred.
• FIXED: Go To Nearest | Flight Plan didn't allow to plan to the current waypoint.
• FIXED: The PND Default Editing Template now correctly installs with ALL installers.
• IMPROVED: The PDA & PND Default Templates now allow to change the map brightness.

Version 1.1.1, Work in progress, updated 20JUN2008.

• NOT RELEASED: Used only for internal testing by the Beta Crew.

Version 1.1.0, Internet released 17JUN2008.

• CHANGED: The RotateScreen function rotates 0/90/180/270. A new function CounterRotateScreenCEDevice has been implemented for the PND version.
• CHANGED: A custom-made file selection picker has been created, and we now no longer use the default FilePicker Dialog provided by Windows (CE). As basis was the XML selector used, so that one looks a bit different now too. All this results in much easier flight plan loading.
• CHANGED: On a low res PND the leg descriptions when doing Edit Leg were unreadable because they condered always 3 lines available. This has been changed to 2 lines available.
• CHANGED: The text "Please resync your PDA to have the new selection take effect. Or" has been changed into "Please resync your PDA to have the new selection take effect. Or, if you use the SD Card transfer, use that to update the SD Card for your mobile device." after the user has selected a new mobile interface file.
• CHANGED: Various text references to "CarNav" and "navigation device" have been changed into "Mobile Device".
• CHANGED: In File | Properties three references to "Pocket PC" and "PDA" have been changed into "Mobile Device".
• CHANGED: The [Advanced settings] button on the PDA/PND settings screen has been removed and is now activated by the [PageOpt] button.
• CHANGED: File | Select Mobile Interface file, "PocketFMS PDA Default" has been changed to "PocketFMS Mobile Device Default".
• CHANGED: The PND version no longer refreshes the Moving Map on every GPS NMEA message received. This relaxes the system more, and should prevent obscured Moving Maps after an Airspace or Obstacle Warning message. The PND version now simply refreshes once every 1 second. If a user wants to influence this, an APPEARANCE option PNDGPSInterval is available. Value is in milliseconds, gives the time between refreshes. A value of 1000 for example refreshes the map every second, a value of 500ms refreshes the map every half second.
• NEW: Introduced support for selected CE-based Car Navigation (CarNav) devices. For this, the install now creates a new folder on the PC \Program Files\PocketFMS\ceEXE\GenericWinCE. This folder contains everything needed for the PocketFMS PND version.
• NEW: When preparing an SD Card for PND use, the PC settings now get transferred to the PND using so-called ".pfmsregmirror" files. When leaving the PageOpt on the Settings screen, PocketFMS flushes all regsettings to regmirror files as well as an intermediate checkpoint. On the very first occurance of a 3D fix of the GPS, PocketFMS flushes all regsettings to regmirror files too as an intermediate checkpoint so in case a user does not exit PocketFMS gracefully, still a lot of settings are saved.
• NEW: PocketFMS can now build its Moving Maps 'multi-threaded', meaning you will be staring at a white 'Zooming In/Out' page much shorter. First the Roads & Rivers maps are displayed, and progressively more and more details are overlaid. While still building, the top-left boxes (zoomlevel & scale) have a red background which will turn white once the map build is complete.
• NEW: A new Appearance parameter "MultiThreadedBuildDisplay" was introduced to enable or disable the multi-threaded display.
• NEW: The default windows template and editing template have a new option <MENUELEMENT Function="SetupGenericWinCE" Text="Prepare PNA system" />. When a user runs this, a PNA system gets prepared.
• NEW: A new function "RotateScreenCEDevice" is implemented. This rotates the screen, and works *only* on the PND version.
• NEW: Two new functions "IncreaseBacklight" and "DecreaseBacklight" have been implemented. These will however function for a very limited though growing number of PDA & CarNav devices due to hardware issues.
• NEW: For the PND and PDA version 4 new functions are available: ShowFPPageOptions, ShowMMAPageOptions, ShowMMBPageOptions and ShowWindCalcPageOptions.
• NEW: New map objects for VOR, NDB, User objects and DME have been implemented.
• NEW: A new APPEARANCE option SmartFPSaving is available on all platforms. When set to 1, PocketFMS will create smart file names for Flight Plans and save them without any user intervention. The Load Flight Plan will be then be "rough-air" compliant as well. When you leave this value to 0, the standard Windows File Save and File Open Dialogs are used.
• NEW: A new APPEARANCE option ExcludeStickyButtonsFromMovingMapArea is available. When 1, the MM shrinks in width when the StickyButtons are enabled in landscape mode so still a full MM is visible. On the PND this is by default 1 now, PDA is default 0.
• NEW: A menu option "Sync with PDA using ActiveSync" has been put in the File menu to be consistent with the "Prepare SD Card for Mobile Device" menu option.
• NEW: When running the PureCE version on a Windows Mobile 5.0 or higher PDA with VGA capabilities, full VGA support is implemented.
• NEW: The monitor screen now contains a battery level indication.
• NEW: A new APPEARANCE option StickyButtonTextAlignment is available. This applies to the dynamic SstickyButtons, and when 0 text will be aligned based on left/right side of the screen, 1 = Always left aligned, 2 = always right aligned, 3 = always centered.
• NEW: A few shortcuts to PocketFMS pages are created in the Start | Programs | PocketFMS group.
• NEW: A new function ShowAdvancedSettingsOptions to enable the General settings options page was implemented.
• NEW: Route files (.ert / Flightplan files) for MGL equipment are now created when a Flight Plan is saved.
• FIXED: NDB frequencies were not displayed at zoomlevels 5-10.
• FIXED: On the PDA the Zaon interface did not display the climb/descend arrow correctly.
• FIXED: The "Select Mobile interface" and "Select Interface" dialogs could highlight the wrong file as being the currently selected one.
• FIXED: If a time calculation resulted in past 24hrs, the PAIM would leave it untouched (for example 25:12 instead of 01:12).
• FIXED: When activating the Altitude Analysis window, the wrong Moving Map was reactivated.
• FIXED: There was a resource leak of 4K on each screen refresh when WX data was enabled. This may have been the case since v66.
• FIXED: Advanced settings tab, Tab control was not painted up to the top.
• FIXED: When the total number of Own Charts added with the number of buttons already used by other functions exceeded 200, when selecting "Own Charts" would popup all airports with own charts as it should. But then when selecting an airport from that list would result in an empty menu.
• FIXED: Unit changes where not executed to Aircraft defination window.
• FIXED: The functions "LoadFlightPlan" and "SaveFlightPlan" did not have any code associated.
• FIXED: FPPageOpt, MMA PageOpt, MMB PageOpt and WindCalc PageOpt now correctly set tickmarks in the Stickybuttons.
• FIXED: The EULA text was garbled when scrolling due to a common control bug in WinCE.
• FIXED: When airspace hatching was set to 0, the given airspace would not be painted even if the line width was not zero.
• FIXED: The VFR approach chart as well as File | Print current map did not produce a map anymore.
• FIXED: When calling W&B In the Aircraft selection with a Flight Plan open, exiting the W&B took some time. This was caused because PocketFMS incorrectly considered values changed and recalculated the Flight Plan.
• FIXED: When using Moving Map PageOpt to set Rel or Abs terrain, a zoom was required before it was activated.
• FIXED: When using ObjectInfo, when the object's text needed a scrollbar, lines that had to break across multiple lines lost there last few characters because they where printed underneath the scrollbar.
• IMPROVED: VORs, NDBs and user symbols are now no longer part of the background map so they look a lot better with track up.
• IMPROVED: The CommandBar interface has been totally rewritten to get rid of a lot of problems like disappearing windows etc. The CommandBar text quality in portrait mode has been improved.
• IMPROVED: Changes were made to prevent the HP310 from crashing due to the size of the display backbuffer.
• IMPROVED: Up to now PocketFMS did the scaling on the most restricting one, either horizontal or vertical. This resulted in crappy screens where often text was cut-off etc. Now both width and height are scaled independently of each other.
• IMPROVED: MM Settings Page on the PND and PNA now display a B in front of the zoomlevel indicator in case it appplies to Map B.
• IMPROVED: When the PND/PDA version detects a database cycle larger than based on the current date, it prompts a message the system clock might be wrong.
• IMPROVED: New graphics for NDB, VOR, User, TACAN and VORTAC have been implemented.
• IMPROVED: The scaling of Flight Plan LIBs is much improved so it now recognises when able to use more than 2 LIB on a screen (for example Mio in portrait mode).
• IMPROVED: Some devices were about twice as slow painting the map with GPS on than with GPS off. PocketFMS now put the GPS stream on hold during map painting. This improves drawing performance a lot on some devices, most noticable on the HP314.
• IMPROVED: Both the PDA sync as the PND sync now warn if a map rebuild is required that it might take up to 20 minutes.