Posted for "Shannon Knoepflein" <kycshann@kyol.net>:

I have one of the FlyMe systems that uses the Viewsonic Tablet PC.  It
comes with absolutely everything, including a printer that is about
1x2x10, a dvd player, built in wireless, built in digital camera, built
in network card and modem, a docking station, a flight bag to carry it
all in, an extra battery, power invertors for both 28 and 14 vdc
systems, etc, etc.  This all comes in a Jeppesen flight bag, and comes
with FlightDeck, FlightMap, and JeppView.  This allows you to plan your
trip, get weather, print out your current charts for your trip and en
route charts, and weather, etc.
  
FlightDeck works incredible.  It shows you as a nice little green
stealth bomber looking shape on the screen, and shows you right where
you are at on the plate.  Then, almost more useful, once you get on the
ground, you can bring up the airport diagram, and it shows you where you
are at on the airport.  This is incredibly useful for large and
unfamiliar airports, and I have used it numerous times.
  
FlightMap works well for an enroute backup GPS also, and is very
customizable.  Besides weather planning and printing out charts, you can
do weight and balance too.  Then, once you land and get in your 4
wheeled vehicle, you can switch over to some Atlas software that uses
the GPS..again, very handy.
  
I highly recommend the FlyMe system.
  
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Shannon Knoepflein   <--->   kycshann@kyol.net


[ Shannon let me play with his toy, and I've played
with a MS-Tablet-PC. The other problem aside from display brightness
pointed out by Hamid, is the MS-Tablet-PC requires a special hover mode pen. While the FlyMe is a touch screen and CT-1000 has buttons
around it. But I'm still a fan of paper as I can find the foobar
intersection faster with a big low enroute chart than a tiny screen. but I'd love to buy a tiny b/w thermal printer (still
more dots than any screen) with a two line display
that let me walk through a directory structure to
find an apt and all its approaches, then select print.
But it would need a disk:

% du -s /www/airports
  19M   Arrivals
  72M   EastCentral
  24M   images
  43M   main
  64M   NorthCentral
  79M   NorthEast
  25M   NorthWest
  88M   SouthCentral
  85M   SouthEast
  64M   SouthWest     -Rob@Logan.com ]