Pocket-PC checklist before flight

Greetings!

It's the beginning of our soaring season here in Australia - and
thought I'd start a checklist for setting a Pocket-PC before (and
after) use with navigation. During the week my Pocket-PC is an
invaluable work tool - but some of it's 'features' are nuisances
in flight!

Anyone out there checklist orientated and already been
here-done-that??

Power, and Display are two I am constantly grappling with . . .
the thing often seems to have a mind of it's own . . .

Also: What is the best way to handle reminders during navigation
program use? The reminders that pop-up are bad news whilst flying
(or driving).

I have discovered a setting in: Settings.personal.sounds&notif-
ications.notifications.select an event: 'reminders' (scroll right
to the bottom) UNTICK: "display message on screen". . .

But I am left wondering how do I ever see what those reminders
were now that I have switched off the pop-ups to the display?

There is often a series of reminder icons along the bottom of the
screen - but touching them simply makes them vanish.

Anyone know - or can comment?

Thanks and best regards,

Jim Kelly.

(My Pocket-PC is currently an iPaq H5550 with 'Windows 2003').