"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote in message
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On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:48:15 -0600, "Stan Prevost"
wrote:

I would pay for DVD updates rather than very large downloads. Also, I
don't
like having to generate backups for individual trips, I would rather have
the whole thing available, or at least a large area. For an alternate
airport when conditions are really poor, I often choose one that is more
than 100 nm away, a Class B or C, where I can find good approaches with
good
approach lighting and food, transportation, and lodging, and hopefully out
of the weather system that is causing the problem at my primary
destination.
Generating a per-trip backup pack for that size corridor about my route
would be a lot of downloading.

Stan,

The downloads are free once you have the software.

And, when the updates come along, all that gets downloaded are the charts
that have changed.


:-) I didn't mean that I would rather pay for DVD updates than to pay for
very large downloads, I meant that I would buy DVD updates rather than
perform large free downloads. :-)

I missed on their website that the update download was selective to changes.
Nice feature. I may have more questions on this product later. For now, I
am trying one cycle of the Sporty's product, as it only costs $10 and I am
still evaluating the usability of the PDA for occasional use with approach
charts.

Ron, having used the Seattle Avionics product, what do you make of their
claim of 5X download speed due to some kind of magic preprocessing of the
charts? As I said earlier, the one they put up as an example on their
website is essentially the same size as the NACO original.