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Chart and Fly is a comprehensive flight planning software that provides commercial and general aviation (GA) pilots with the means to prepare cross-country flight plans. It also comes with extensive air navigation tools such as a flight computer.

History
Chart and Fly is the successor of Flight Wizard and Canadian Flight Wizard. The later was launched in 2000 as a simple-to-use, intuitive and inexpensive flight planner, developed mainly for the Canadian GA market. This relatively small market, when compared to the neighboring U.S., combined with the lack of Canadian aerodrome, navigational aid and airspace databases in digital formats, left Canadian pilots no choice but to rely on inadequate American products. Those products provided an incomplete picture of the Canadian airspace and produced reports in formats unfamiliar to Canadian pilots. Flight Wizard came to remediate the situation. Indeed, the new product was accepted enthusiastically by many and was featured numerous times in COPA Flight magazine and in other publications.

Recent Developments
The introduction of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) along with the initiative of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to make it part of its Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), created a great interest among software developers who adapted software-defined radio tuners to receive ADS-B signals. Chart & Fly, installed on a laptop or tablet computer, takes advantage of this new technology to provide, on its moving map display, real-time information about the aircraft's position and the position of properly-equipped aircraft nearby.