Palm PDA software for aviation

[H.P.]

Anyone have any recommendations for aviation software for the Palm PDA. I'm
thinking of AirCalc Pro through AvShop but there's a bunch of stuff
available from Palm Gear that's also shareware.

[Anaconda]

Try Copilot from Laurie Davis. It's freeware, with optional no strings
attached donation. It's just short of fantastic:
http://www.palmflying.com/copilot.html .

You can download a database for it (also free) which makes it very useful.

Same database can be configured to be downloaded as waypoints onto your GPS.
Have all your local airports available on your non-mapping gps. What a great
combination.

More info on Copilot and links to the database can be found here ...

www.lauriedavis9.tripod.com/copilot/

Anaconda

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, "Anaconda" > said:
>Try Copilot from Laurie Davis. It's freeware, with optional no strings
>attached donation. It's just short of fantastic:
>http://www.palmflying.com/copilot.html .
>
>You can download a database for it (also free) which makes it very useful.

http://navaid.com/CoPilot/

>Same database can be configured to be downloaded as waypoints onto your GPS.

http://navaid.com/GPX/

>More info on Copilot and links to the database can be found here ...
>
>www.lauriedavis9.tripod.com/copilot/

Also more information at http://xcski.com/~ptomblin/CoPilot/

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during late-night sysadminning when you should be home with them. -- adb

[Maik]

I tried it, spend more money than it costs now and I'm not using it
anymore. Too many problems with other programms and a bit buggy.

So save your money and download CoPilot. It is the best.

maik

H.P. wrote:
> Anyone have any recommendations for aviation software for the Palm PDA. I'm
> thinking of AirCalc Pro through AvShop but there's a bunch of stuff
> available from Palm Gear that's also shareware.
>
>

[Peter MacPherson]

I also use CoPilot and it works great.

Pete

"H.P." > wrote in message
...
> Anyone have any recommendations for aviation software for the Palm PDA.
> I'm
> thinking of AirCalc Pro through AvShop but there's a bunch of stuff
> available from Palm Gear that's also shareware.
>
>

[Brien K. Meehan]

Anaconda wrote:
> Try Copilot from Laurie Davis. It's freeware, with optional no
strings
> attached donation. It's just short of fantastic:
> http://www.palmflying.com/copilot.html .

No it's not.
It's fully, all the way up to, and past the point of, fantastic.

[Blanche]

Brien K. Meehan > wrote:
>Anaconda wrote:
>> Try Copilot from Laurie Davis. It's freeware, with optional no
>strings
>> attached donation. It's just short of fantastic:
>> http://www.palmflying.com/copilot.html .
>
>No it's not.
>It's fully, all the way up to, and past the point of, fantastic.

I agree! Now if I just had enough memory to load all the stuff from
Paul Tomblin's waypoint generator....

*sigh*

Not the PDA, not my brain, either.

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, Blanche > said:
>I agree! Now if I just had enough memory to load all the stuff from
>Paul Tomblin's waypoint generator....
>
>*sigh*

So, have you tried the new way of specifying fixes by what chart they
appear on? It really cuts down on all those badly categorized fixes that
only appear on approaches and the like. I found a large reduction in
database size by restricting to ones that only appear on Low Altitude
En-route charts.


--
Paul Tomblin > http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
In fact, it's surprising that any sort of hardware works. When it works, it
is just biding its time waiting for a more inconvenient time for it to fail.
-- Joe Moore

[Brien K. Meehan]

Paul Tomblin wrote:
> So, have you tried the new way of specifying fixes by what chart they
> appear on? It really cuts down on all those badly categorized fixes
that
> only appear on approaches and the like. I found a large reduction in
> database size by restricting to ones that only appear on Low Altitude
> En-route charts.

Paul, that's a great feature.

Even with it, though, the database I generate (US + Ontario) adds up to
almost 25000 waypoints. That's because I don't include approach fixes
or private airports (by simply un-checking the check box that would
include them!). It takes a while to download to the PDA, but it's
schweet.