On May 3, 1:56*am, "Tim Mara" wrote:
An interesting device. I have two questions that are not covered on your
or the maker's web sites:

- can the logger be powered via its USB socket?

we've actually already gone over some of these questions and below is a
response from Uros at flyWithCE:

GPS has USB connector which can also be used as external power supply. You
can use any standard 12V to USB power supply, but I would advise that you
check for the efficiency and make sure that this power supply will not
interfere with other electronics devices. The thing is that good adapter
will be a switcher which has more than 80% efficiency and bad switched could
cause problems. *This new device looks
interesting:http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProdu...duct_Id=489424

- how does the logger present itself on a USB socket - as a
*serial device, a mass storage device or something else?
*IOW, can it be accessed as if its flash memory?
*I'm asking because I don't run Windows and would prefer to avoid WINE.

I'll have to defer any questions regarding operating systems to Uros as well
since though I use a PC I run XP and couldn't answer technical PC questions
, Uros however does this also for a living.

tim

Please visit the Wings & Wheels website atwww.wingsandwheels.com

"Martin Gregorie" wrote in message

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On Sat, 02 May 2009 10:22:34 -0400, Tim Mara wrote:

FlyWithCE's development and testing has gone on for well over the past
two years with a variety of GPS Data-logger devices to get to this
release but now these tiny recorders are now in stock here at Wings &
Wheels.

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martin@ * | Martin Gregorie
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Device presents itself as USB to serial adapter. Because of that the
driver installation is necessary. All other tasks of downloading
flights are performed by Logbook application, which is also Windows
application. So Windows operating system is needed (virtual machine
will also do - I am often testing in virtual PC).

Best regards

Uros