Software
Enroute Flight Navigation
Enroute Flight Navigation is a free flight navigation app aimed at general aviation pilots. The program is available for Android devices, iOS devices and Linux desktop computers. At the time of writing (=July 2023), the app is in daily flight use, with more than 21,000 active installations worldwide. Approximately 40 % of our users fly in German airspace.
Innovation Award 2023 of the Hellmut Niethammer Foundation
The app Enroute Flight Navigation was awarded the Innovation Prize of the Hellmut Niethammer Foundation in October 2023. The prize goes to the Academic Aviation Group Freiburg, under whose umbrella the app was developed. The Hellmut Niethammer Foundation promotes air sports in Baden-Württemberg. The prize honors projects in clubs for innovative developments on the way to climate-neutral flight operations, contributions to a sustainable future for air sports and technical developments for the entire field of air sports.
The award is endowed with a prize money of up to 15k€, the exact amount will be announced at the award ceremony on October 29, 2023.
Innovation Award 2021
In summer 2021, the readers of the German aviation magazine Aerokurier have chosen Enroute Flight Navigation as one of the three most important innovations of the year in the category “Avionics”. Read the full article here.
Industry Cooperation
I cooperate in the development and operation of the software with AIR Avionics, an EASA–certified manufacturer of IT– and electronic systems for aviation.
AIR Avionics is a medium-sized company based in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The main focus of the company’s activities is aviation communication, air traffic control, traffic avoidance, and navigation.