X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:55:19 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [12.9.25.98] (HELO IPOfCard1.guest-tek.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.6) with ESMTP id 1052445 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 21:04:13 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=12.9.25.98; envelope-from=tthibaultsprint@earthlink.net Received: from [172.17.196.247] ([172.17.196.247]) by IPOfCard1.guest-tek.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j6B13Rk11441 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 18:03:27 -0700 X-Original-Message-ID: <42D1C559.8070107@earthlink.net> X-Original-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 18:03:21 -0700 From: Tom Thibault User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net Subject: Tablets and Laptops in the cockpit (LNC2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can't speak for the heavy iron (plastic?) drivers, but a tablet fits on my right leg just fine when enroute. My better half is quick to remind me when I encroach on her leg, but neither of us is very large. For takeoff and landing I ask her to hold it just in case I really have to thrash around in the cockpit a lot. For those also following the Bluetooth RFI saga earlier, here is an update. I talked to Garmin about the 430 and my local avionics shop about the KX-155 squelch. Garmin techs told me that I could increase the squelch setting quite a bit using the maintenance startup pages. Activated by holding ENT while turning on the power. One of the last pages has the squelch setting. I was able to find a setting (40) where it hardly ever breaks squelch. The KX-155 was more of an experiment. Under the round tapes on the bottom of the box are numerous pots. One of these is labeled C/N S and the other is labeled C Sq. The tech said the one to adjust was the former but I think it is really the latter. Without bench gear you tweak one a tiny bit, put it back in the rack and try again. I did this for about an hour and did not seem to improve things much on the King. I got frustrated and quit fussing with it after that, thinking I might even have to take the unit or the whole A/C to that shop to reset to factory specs and try again. Well today I flew from St. Johns, AZ to Santa Barbara, CA with very little squelch problems on either radio. Go figure. Tom Thibault --------------------------------------------- How do those who use PC tablets or even laptops manage to fit them in the cockpit?