Garmin Expands Aviation Charting Capability for Europe

Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin, a company focused on satellite navigation, announced expanded electronic charting capabilities for Europe including the availability of European VFR terminal charts and European SafeTaxi airport diagrams for select Garmin aviation products.

"European pilots have asked Garmin to find ways to provide information electronically that helps enhance situational awareness. With these new electronic charts, pilots not only benefit from a less-cluttered cockpit, but they allow for more immediate access to the information pilots need to make good decisions," said Carl Wolf, Garmin's vice president of aviation sales and marketing.

In a release on April 18, Garmin said it has partnered with Jeppesen to integrate its European VFR terminal charts into the aera 795/796 aviation portables. By loading the VFR terminal charts on to the Garmin portable, pilots meet the requirement for carrying charts, but without the burden of having additional paper in the cockpit. The database covers over 2,200 airports in 29 European countries and contains colored Visual Approach, Landing and Area Charts, as well as general- and country-related text sections such as Regulations, Communications, Meteorology, Aerodrome Directory and more for the planning and execution of flights within Europe under Visual Flight Rules.

Garmin also introduced a new European SafeTaxi database, offering geo-referenced airport diagrams for nearly 500 European airports in 15 different countries. SafeTaxi automatically identifies runways, taxiways, FBOs, and hangars, as well as the aircraft's location on the field. Because SafeTaxi is geo-referenced, pilots will experience enhanced situational awareness by seeing their aircraft move along the taxiway diagram on the navigation screen.

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