I've been using Oudie since the beginning of the season. I had been
using SeeYou Mobile for two years so I was sold on it as a program.
The downside had been the PDA's--especially the system crashes because
of all the crap that comes with Windows Mobile.

The Oudie screen is better than any PDA and yes, not as good as
ClearNav. But $2K plus is a bit rich for me as I have a LX-DX-50 for
other important data.

I put on sun glasses and went outside to configure the thumbnail nav
boxes as far as color and font size was concerned. I found black boxes
with bold white fonts and yellow boxes with bold black fonts are easy
to read. Scaling them larger helped.

As a device it's the step between PDAs and larger screen units. I have
not had any freezes or crashes and yes...some screen change buttons
can be twitchy. I have mine mounted on a RAM holder and use the Socket
Mobile battery pack to power it. You can wire up to your internal
electrical and power it with the glider batteries, but I like the
mobility convenience along with the suction mount they give you. That
way you can use it in other gliders easily.

Naviter seems to be a supportive company so I'm happy with the unit
and the program.

I too keep graphics simple: white background, gray and black markers,
roads and turnpoints for easy scanning. I also group my relevant nav
thumbnails on one screen, and the moving map on another.

Mike The Strike: what exactly is your screen shade you're referring
too?

I give Oudie 4.5 stars out of 5 for what you pay for.

Bob
GE2