Panel Planner is your best solution for designing or re-designing instrument panels for any aircraft. It is designed for the aircraft owner, homebuilder, repair/refit station, flight department, designer, or manufacturer. Panel Planner is a stand-alone program and no CAD experience is required!

Panel Planner gives you the power to design and build instrument panels in record time. Simply drag full-color, photo-realistic instruments, avionics, and cockpit controls into place on an aircraft panel template.

Panel Planner tracks total cost, total weight, and peak current, generates an equipment list, and even prints actual-size hole-cutting templates and color mock-ups with your desktop printer.

With dynamic database updates over your internet connection, Panel Planner equipment and panels information is always up-to-date, with the most recent instruments in the market, ready for you to use. The software is multi-platform, based in a technology called Java, and can run either on Macintosh, Windows, Linux, or any other platform that supports Java 1.4.

Features

Equipment Database
• Simple to browse equipment explorer, with views by manufacturer and by type
• Equipment item preview
• Search equipment feature
• Automatic updates over the internet
• Over 1200 equipment entries
• User can add its own custom equipment, from a scan or JPG file
• User can modify any entry in the equipment menu
• Information stored in XML, leading edge standards
• Drag and drop placement

Work Area
• Multiple levels of zoom
• Work in Faceplate view
• Work in Template view (cutout)
• View the Top view of the panel (equipment depth)
• Align-Distribute tools
• Assign a specified space between objects tool
• Rulers and guides
• Work in INCHES, CM, or PT
• Snap to guides. Selectable hotspot.
• Project Browser
• Detailed Information pane
• Able to assign-modify dimensions to placed items (faceplate and template data)
• Color labels-placards
• Marquee selection
• Multiple open documents
• Copy and paste between open documents

Import, Export and Print
• Import 2.9.x projects using the convert tool.
• Import SVG, JPG, PNG graphics (when adding used-added equipment)
• Export template cutout in DXF, actual size.
• Export faceplate and template views in PNG, JPG, and PDF, in several sizes.
• Export equipment summary to TXT and HTML
• Print faceplate and template views in actual size (tiled over multiple pages) or fit in window.

Other features
• eData Update Center, for automated update of the panel templates and fixes-improvements to the application
• Graphics in SVG, for crispier detail and more accurate display.
• Over 300 different panel templates.

Technology

You may ask what the "J" stands for? It stands for Java, the programming language our software uses.

Why Java? We wanted to make the most versatile, expendable application, and we selected java as the appropriate solution, since it is not platform-specific, has leading edge standards and supports the additional technologies we wanted to implement on this project.

Data in XML. XML (extended markup language) has become the standard in data exchange technologies, and thus, having the data information in XML makes the application easier to maintain, the data easier to exchange and the update possibilities endless, since the data is in a uniform web aware standard. Graphics in SVG. Scalable Vector Graphics is soon to become the standard in graphics formats, because is an open standard, strongly backed by its XML foundation, and it is an elegant solution to display graphics in an application, because it is resolution independent, allows for morphing (between template and faceplate view), and it is easier to maintain than Bitmap images. Also, it allows One Mile Up to continue its lifelong commitment to vector graphics.

System Requirements

General
• Java 1.4.x Runtime environment (JRE 1.4.x) (Not yet tested with Suns JRE 1.5, Windows Installer will not work without JRE 1.4.x installed.)
• 256Mb RAM
• 250Mb free space in your Hard Disk
• Internet Connection for Database and Application updates

Windows OS
• Windows 98, 2000, XP with Suns JRE (does not work properly with Microsoft JRE)
• Pentium III or higher processor (733Mhz or higher recommended)
• Comes with Windows Installer. (Needs JRE 1.4, does not work with JRE 1.5)

Macintosh OS
• Macintosh OS X 10.3 or higher with the most recent Software Updates (Does not work with OS X 10.2.8 or System 9)
• G3 or higher processor (733Mhz or higher recommended)
• Comes in Disk Image for simple Mac-like installation.

Linux and other OS
• Any operating system that supports a fully compliant J2SE 1.4.x JRE
• Comes as a Tarball, with no dependencies.
• Not available online. Please notify that you want this flavor when ordering by sending a e-mail to ppsupport at onemileup.com. Make sure to mention that you are purchasing this through AvShop.