On Sun, 21 May 2006 16:58:17 GMT, Casey Wilson wrote:

Small screens, tiny buttons, graffiti panels.... Just doesn't work for
me.

Amen Casey!!!

While I am a "bells and whistles" kinda person, I still use plain ole pen
and paper for writing frequencies, use the ole paper enroute maps, and
still do follow my progress via VOR radials compared to the paper map just
to keep my mind active enroute. No hand held batteries needed.

While my Garmin 430 has a checklists, timers for fuel and the like, I still
use my home created checklist, write down the time to change tanks on paper
on kneeboard and so on. Still no batteries required.

Still have velcro wrapped pens attached to velcro strips on my knee board.
Using Velcro in flight is one of the best inventions since sliced bread :-)

The only reason I tote my PDA along is for the hopes of wireless access in
the FBO when I arrive :-) as there are some FBO's that have different
flight briefing services that I don't like.

Allen