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
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How do those who use PC tablets or even laptops manage to fit them in the
cockpit?