Rockwell Collins announces moving map iPad app

Rockwell Collins announced plans to offer its Airshow 3D moving map on an Apple iPad app Monday at the Geneva air show in Switzerland.

The product offers a panorama view that allows business aircraft passengers to see a moving map of the outside world from any direction the iPad is pointed, as if the aircraft were transparent. It also provides intuitive, touch-based interaction with multiple maps and information displays, and the ability to control the Airshow ticker, which scrolls key information such as the estimated time of flight arrival. It offers a three-dimensional graphical representation of the world's time zones.

The Airshow application will be available via the Apple iTunes App Store later this year. Rockwell Collins Airshow 4000 or Venue™ HD cabin management system users will be able to use the new app through a system upgrade.