A.T.P. is a highly versatile, as well as interactive, tool for the modern aviator's flight deck. It's easy to use. It's inexpensive. Most of all, it's been designed to aid the pilot in quickly and accurately attaining needed airport and FBO information.
What follows is a quick over-view of the many functions of A.T.P.:
Using ATP you can search for an airport by ICAO identifier or by typing in the first
few letters of the airport/city name. When you use the "by city search method", ATP will
display a list of all the airport names that start with the letters you entered. Then simply
tap on the one you want and that airport's information pops onto the screen.
To search for an airport by city name, simply write in the first few letters in the name of the airport that you are looking for and tap on the "City" button. For example: let's say that you are looking for the airport "Coldwater, Michigan". Write "cold" in the Data window and tap on the "City" button.
It's recommend that you search using 3 or more Characters. Keep in mind that if you attempt a search with 1 or 2 letters only, the result will be a very long list of airports. Also, if you misspell the airport name, you may not find it at all.
When using the search function, keep in mind that "St" and "Saint" will come up with entirely different results! As an added tip, if the airport has a name like Santa Rosa, California, consider using the entire first word with a space and then the first letter of the next word, for your search.
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You can now see Teterboro's airport information displayed. The longest runway dimensions are displayed as well as the type of lighting available on that runway.
Next are the available approaches, type fuel sold, airport elevation, the tower telephone number if there is a tower, and all the FBO's that are on that airport.
Notice the scroll bar in the far right hand side of the window. That means that there is additional data that can be viewed. You could scroll up and down using the arrows that are provided above and below the scroll bar. You could also "tap and drag" on the scroll bar to drag it up or down.
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In the photo to the right, you can see that directly below the airport information, are all the FBOs that are on that field. Tap on your favorite FBO and a new screen displays all the FBO's information.
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You can temporarily change the default radius of the search by first tapping in the Data window and then entering a new value, such as 25 nautical miles, and then tapping on the "AltApt" button. Your new value will now be used for each additional "AltApt" search that you do. If you exit the A.T.P. program and then later re-enter the program, the default setting of 60 n.m. will be re-established.
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As you can see on the top line, the great circle bearing and distance between New York's JFK airport and Chicago's O'Hare airport is 294 degrees and 640 nautical miles.
To determine the bearing and distance of the next city pair, O'Hare and Mexico City's Toluca airport, look one line down to find 207 degrees and 1482 nautical miles. On the third line down you see the answer for the city pair, Toluca to Hilo Hawaii. On the fourth line down you see Hilo Hawaii to San Juan Puerto Rico.
ID Search Function
If you already know the ICAO identifier for the airport you want, then you can write it directly into the Data window and tap the "ID" button to get all the information about that airport. Let's use KTEB, (Teterboro, New Jersey), as an example.
In the photo to the left, you see the new screen that came up after you tapped on your favorite FBO from the previous screen. All the FBO's information is now neatly displayed on a separate screen. To go back simply tap the "Ok" button at the bottom of the screen, and that will return you to the airport information screen.
Alternate Airport Search Function
If you want to search for alternate airports in the vicinity of Teterboro, (or any other airport you currently may have displayed), you can do so by simply tapping on the "AltApt" button. The search automatically defaults to a 60 nautical mile circle centered on the airport that is currently displayed.
Navigation Calculator Function
With A.T.P. you can easily calculate the bearing and distance between any 4 city pairs that are contained in the data base. And when it's time to reverse course and come home, you can tap on one simple button and A.T.P. does the rest of the work for you.
