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Flight Review & Task Planning Software

Overview
There are several very nice flight review and task planning software packages available.  They are also very useful for downloading flight logs directly from a flight recorder and creating waypoint and special use airspace data files for downloading to flight recorders.  SeeYou and StrePla are both very impressive software packages.  They seem to follow each other in regard to new features so there aren't too many reasons to select one over the other. 

Customer Quotes
One comment that has been common in regard to this comparison table is that you can't capture the differences in "feel" and "ease-of-use" in a list of features.  Therefore I have created a Customer Quotes area at the bottom of the page.  If you particularly like one of the products on this page, please send me an e-mail explaining why you like it, what you use it for, or what your favorite features are.  I will post only comments that are positive in nature so be kind - the authors have put a lot of work hard into the products!

Pocket PC Flight Software
Each offers a companion product for use in flight on a Pocket PC.  For a comparison of the soaring flight software products see the Soaring Flight Software Comparison page. 

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Comparison Table
Certainly the table below is not as complete as I'd like it to be.  If you see any errors or have any suggestions for the table below please let me know.  My goal is to make the table as accurate and complete as possible. 

Task Planning & Flight Review Software Comparison
	SeeYou	StrePla
Price for PC Software	$160	$194
Flight software for Pocket PC	SeeYou Mobile	pocket*StrePla
Country of Origin	Slovenia	Germany
Analog Gauges (vario, airspeed, altimeter, clock)	No	Yes
Number of 3D glider models available	9	36
How to select animation speed	Icon in toolbar	Slider
Quick movement to any time in flight	4 icons in the toolbar (previous thermal, previous position, next position, next thermal)	Slider on toolbar and arrow keys for prev/next position and thermal
Flight logs imported into database	No	Yes
View 2D and 3D maps at the same time	Yes	No
Statistics pages	4	5
Supported Languages - Software	17	2
Supported Languages - Manuals	6	2
Printing	Route, Barogram, GPS Altitude, Vertical speed, Task speed, Ground speed, Fix Accuracy, Engine noise level, Task, Multiple tasks, Waypoints, Flight statistics, Task statistics, Leg statistics, Phase statistics, Scale to fit page or custom scale with custom overlapping.	List of Turnpoints, List of routes, Barogram, Variogram, Groundspeed, Thermals, Straights, Map (visible), Flight Track, Statistics (Flight Track), Statistics (Task), Statistics (Cursor), Turnpoint sectors, Airspace Crossings
Print Preview	Yes	No
Saving Desktop Layout	unlimited different layouts	unlimited different layouts?
Windows in desktop (how many windows can be open and visible at a time - such as 2D view, 3D view, barogram, etc.)	unlimited	4
Find flights function that searches within IGC files	Yes	No
Competition scoring module	Yes	No
Save view as jpeg image file	Yes	No
List of 10 recent flights	Yes	No, but has list of recent waypoint and flight log database files in file menu
Multiple flights synchronization methods	5 (real-time, takeoff time, start time, finish time, landing time)	3 (real-time, takeoff time, scoring (task) time)
Context sensitive help	Yes	No
Proprietary G-record for unsigned flights	Yes	No
Vector Map Coverage All products offer maps of most of the world for free. Please use the links to their web sites to determine if your country is included.	http://www.seeyou.si/vectormaps.php	http://www.strepla.de/StrePla4/english/download/index.htm
30m Satellite images	4GB (free)	?
HTML Help	Yes	Yes
Public support forum	Yes	No
Unique Features	Free competition scoring module. Changes to the task details are saved in the IGC file as "L-records" at the end of the IGC file so that the original IGC validation is intact.  This approach makes the updated files easy to transfer to someone else with the changes intact.	Flight logs are imported into StrePla database.  That makes it easy to find flights by date, pilot name, contest ID, etc.  Another benefit is that if you edit the task settings (such as turnpoint areas) the changes are saved in the database but the original secure flight log is not changed.  The analog flight meters are also unique and useful.
Device Compatibility Table
	SeeYou	StrePla
Bräuniger Compeo	Download
Bräuniger Competino	Download
Cambridge GPS-NAV (Model 10, 20, 25)	Download	Download
Cambridge 302 and 302A	Download	Download
Colibri	Download	Download
EW microRecorder	Download
Flytec 5020	Download
Flytec 5030	Download
Garmin GPS units with RS-232 data ports	Download	Download
Garmin GPS units with USB data ports	Download	Download
LX Navigation DX50	Download
LX20	Download	Download
LX400	Download
LX500	Download
LX700	Download
LX4000	Download
LX5000	Download	Download
LX5000 (old)	Download	Download
LX7000	Download	Download
MLR	Download
Posigraph	Download	Download
Volkslogger	Download	Download

Customer Quotes
If you particularly like one of the products on this page, please send me an e-mail explaining why you like it, what you use it for, or what your favorite features are.  I will post as many comments as possible below.  I will post only comments that are positive in nature so be kind - the authors have put a lot of work hard into the products!  This is a manual process so I will not post quotes that are the same as quotes already on the page.