About Us


We are a young and dynamic team with a passion for flying which constantly pursues the dream of easing the world of avionics. Since we are proud owners of the FAA private pilot license with instrument and glider rating, we have a good feeling for what a pilot really needs. Therefore Helios Avionics can offer you high quality products made by pilots and created for pilots.
Wolfgang, Max and Martin - the Horizon Team

Third party libraries and databases


Horizon uses code from the Independent JPEG Group (IJG) to decode jpegs (license can be found at: https://spdx.org/licenses/IJG.html).
Furthermore the following APIs/libraries are used:
- platform dependent APIs (from the operating system in use)
- Irrlicht 3D Engine (http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/)
- STL (Standard Template Library)
- libcurl
- indirectly any dependencies which are required by the libraries mentioned above

Horizon uses vector data (OSM-* packages) and tiles (Tiles-* packages) from the OpenStreetMap project.
© OpenStreetMap contributors, Base map and data from OpenStreetMap and OpenStreetMap Foundation.
The data is freely available under the Open Database License: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright .

Aviation chart data is originated in proprietary sources for Europe and most of the world (except NFDC for USA).
In locations where the proprietary sources are not sufficient the data has been enhanced with data from openflightmaps and via manual editing.
It therefore contains information from the open flightmaps database, see www.openflightmaps.org .

Privacy Policy


Our current privacy policy can be found at: https://helios-avionics.com/contact/impressum/

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