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From: Lorn H Olsen <lorn@dynacomm.ws>
Subject: Re: EFBs

If you take a hard drive very much above, 10,000 ft you will loose  
the data on the hard drive and possible destroy the hard drive itself.

> From: "Halle, John" <JJHALLE@stoel.com>
>
> I have spent the last five years not buying an EFB and am once  
> again thinking about it.  Seems that you can get a decent, daylight  
> readable tablet computer for around $2K but if you want one with a  
> solid state hard drive (which supposedly you need if you want it to  
> work above 10K feet) it's more like 5K (at which price I will spend  
> the next five years not getting one too.)  Then there is the  
> eflybook which is some kind of computer with a black and white  
> screen but that reproduces NOAA charts and plates, is daylight  
> readable and doesn't say anything about whether it can be used over  
> 10K feet.  It costs $1500.  Anyone out there know anything about  
> these things or have any recommendations?
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Lorn H. 'Feathers' Olsen, MAA, DynaComm, Corp.
248-345-0500, mailto:lorn@dynacomm.ws
LNC2, FB90/92, O-320-D1F, 1,300 hrs, N31161, Y47, SE Michigan