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Aviation Software: CruiseAlt

by Mr. Flight on December 30th, 2005

Do you know what altitude your plane gets the best fuel economy at? Are you sure? How about given the winds aloft forecast do you know exactly what altitude will be the most economical to fly at? Probably not.

CruiseAlt comes to the rescue. Enter in the performance data from your POH and CruiseAlt will remember those values. Then after getting your preflight briefing, enter in the data from the winds aloft forecast. CruiseAlt will then tell you the most economical altitude to fly at!

Download CruiseAlt, available for both Mac and Windows.

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