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Anyone have experience with JeppView or FliteDeck on one of the new tablet PCs (like a Compaq TC1000, price $1700)?
After flying several long trips with 15 or so books of approach plates in the back, it would be awfully nice to carry paper only for the departure, destination and alternate, and have a CD (or the data copied to hard disk) for everything else as backup. JeppView or FliteDeck provides the data & software, but the pen computer hardware used so far has been pretty expensive ($3500-6500). This year there are a number of new vertical format, tablet PCs in the $1700-2300 range - and according to Jepp, the Windows XP Tablet Edition operating systems will indeed run JeppView or FliteDeck though they do not seem to know how well the pen input will work.
Does anyone have any relevant experience with these systems? Should I ask Santa for one, or just go for a new rivet gun and continue lugging around the suitcases of approach plates on long trips?
Clark Still (New York, 100% TB20, 45% LIVPT)
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