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May 23rd 06, 03:02 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Steve Foley
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PDA: Which one and what software?
Does the treo also function as the GPS, or do you need to add a card to it?
"Jon" wrote in message
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I am using co-pilot for flight planning. Navaid.com to get waypoint
updates.
I am using Flightmaster (
www.flight-master.com
) for gps software on my
Treo
650. The 2 work together very nicely.Works very nice. Moving map, HSI,
lots
of neat features.
-Jonathan
"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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In a previous article,
said:
I am in the market for a PDA to help organize my life, dates, phone
numbers, addresses, emails, and also double as a electronic flight
computer and sort of a electronic flight bag type of thing.
My laptop is a Powerbook Mac and my desktop is a PC.
Should I go with a Palm pPilot (OS) or a Pocket PC? And which have
better software for aviation?
I've been using Palm PDAs for a long time. They work well with Mac OS,
Linux, and I'm told they even work with Windows although I'm fortunate
enough to have never tried. I use CoPilot (see my web site
http://xcski.com/~ptomblin/CoPilot
for details) as an important part for
my flight planning - I put the flight plan into it so that I can enter
the
winds and have an accurate ETE, as well as being able to do the w&b and
just read the flight plan (in either US, Canadian or ICAO formats) off
the
screen.
Up until Saturday when somebody tried to teach me how to ride a
motorcycle, I used a Palm Treo as my phone and PDA, and it was great to
be
able to use it to check weather and see radar pictures and satellite
maps
when I wasn't at home. I'm hoping my insurance covers a smashed and
slightly blood covered Treo because I really missed it on the flight
home.
--
Paul Tomblin
http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
It's not 'I don't do Windows', it's 'I know nothing about Windows,
and it generally explodes when I get near it'.
-- Matt McLeod
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