"brian whatcott" wrote in message
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Uncle Fuzzy wrote:
On Dec 15, 2:27 pm, brian whatcott wrote:
I know it sounds unlikely for someone seeking to put a yoke mount moving
map in his 150 to be seeking advice from a soaring group, but here I
am...

I have a whole lot of sales resistance to the Garmin 626's or whatever
of this world, that go for prices in four places of digits.
And the current run of aviation GPSs all seem high...

But then, I searched on moving map displays and Bingo! plenty of better
priced hits. I was specially interested to read that sailplane
enthusiasts have been using PDAs with aviation apps loaded for a while
now. I read about Anywhere Map, and one or two others.
My interest is the one finger selection of a destination airfield
with distance to go, cross track error, and heading and bearing to
steer.

Any useful tips??

Thanks in advance
Brian W

Brian,
Paul Remde has huge amounts of information on his website regarding
PDAs, software, etc. Start he

http://cumulus-soaring.com/pda.htm

I'm a big fan of the Hp3870 with a cheap Bluetooth GPS, and XCSoar. I
recently purchased a lot of 5 PDAs for $110.00 including shipping.
New Batteries were required for all but one, at around another $20.00
each. XCSoar is probably not a good match for what you want to do.

Thanks for the URL. I see that XCSoar is specialized for energy reserve
and distance to run - not the same parameters I look for but the same
approach no doubt. I bought a GPS equipped PDA - the Garmin iQue
M5 (416MHz core 64MB RAM/64MB ROM) which I see is one of the targets of
Navzilla (and I expect other) moving map/HSI apps - but I am already
finding the soaring input is paying off: using an auto mirror mount rather
than a bulky plastic RAM mount makes sense to me.


Brian W

Being open source, XCSoar could be made to do anything you want (if you are
capable of re-writing bits of it, of course!), but even as it stands the
display can be reconfigured so that it loses the gliding specific stuff and
keeps the 'normal' navigation stuff.
I use it in this way (as a non-soaring pilot), displaying Ground Speed, ETE,
ETA, CTS etc.