OQO Handtop computer for flight display.

[Guy Byars]

I am thinking of putting a oqo handtop computer on my panel to display a
moving map and WX data from an XM receiver. Has anyone tried out the oqo in
the cockpit? How does it work? How do you power it? Can it be seen in the
daylight?

http://www.oqo.com

It looks far superior to the palm/IPAQ type of solution, but the cost is
high.

Thanks it advance for any insight.

Guy Byars

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[Gig 601XL Builder]

By "superior" I assume you mean bigger screen and full XP computing power?
THe thing might be the best thing since sliced bread but we wouldn't know
yet because it hasn't been out long enough for enough real world users to
say so. Most of the soft/hardware on the market at this time for aviation
realated use is geared towards the Palm or WIndows CE machines so you will
misght have problems finding the items you want.



"Guy Byars" > wrote in message
...
>I am thinking of putting a oqo handtop computer on my panel to display a
> moving map and WX data from an XM receiver. Has anyone tried out the oqo
> in
> the cockpit? How does it work? How do you power it? Can it be seen in
> the
> daylight?
>
> http://www.oqo.com
>
> It looks far superior to the palm/IPAQ type of solution, but the cost is
> high.
>
> Thanks it advance for any insight.
>
> Guy Byars
>
> (Remove NEYTSPAM to reply)
>
>

[Marco Leon]

Well, he could theoretically put Jeppesen's FliteMap/FliteStar on it as well
as JeppView for the charts. Weather is still ahead
(http://www.jeppesen.com/download/misc/FUTURE_APS.pdf).



"Gig 601XL Builder" <wr.giacona@coxDOTnet> wrote in message
news:xmcwe.38123$DC2.24701@okepread01...
> By "superior" I assume you mean bigger screen and full XP computing power?
> THe thing might be the best thing since sliced bread but we wouldn't know
> yet because it hasn't been out long enough for enough real world users to
> say so. Most of the soft/hardware on the market at this time for aviation
> realated use is geared towards the Palm or WIndows CE machines so you will
> misght have problems finding the items you want.
>
>