I have an old Palm PDA with a black and white screen. I have loaded
Soaring Pilot on it and played with it but I never bothered to put it in
the glider.

However on the ground the display seems perfectly legible in bright light.

For those who have tried old PDA's, how do black and white screens shape
up against the latest colour ones?

Maybe it is worth trading some CPU power for a clearly readible display
and a decent battery life.


Ian

had an old Palm Vx running Soaringpilot for flying. I then cooked its
battery and found it was too expensive to replace. I then started
shopping for a new PDA specifically to run Soaringpilot or the Pocket
PC equivalent. I looked at the various Ipaq's, Palm's etc and ended up
buying the IBM equivalent of the old Palm Vx for 100 pounds (new unit
but old technology) mainly as it had the monochrome screen.
Soaringpilot is a fantastic product (if you can call something that is
free a product) and flying with it is a joy. I use it in conjunction
with a LX 5000 as the navigation and task setting is so much easier to
use. Final glide is very similar in the two units but the speed-to-fly
is far better from the LX. I do not need a colour-moving map as I look
out the cockpit to see where I am - all I need to know is the airspace
and the various waypoints. You do not need colour and a powerful CPU
to show that. I have now bought a Colibri logger as my LX is so old -
it is not an IGC approved logger. Soaringpilot supports the data that
comes from the Colibri and will use the pressure altitude for
increased precision in the calculations.

Clinton
LAK 12