PDA Recommendations

Hi Gang
All the common PDAs are marginal at best in bright sunlight. I have
been running an Ipaq 5555 for a couple of years with GN11. Initially I
ran it as a self contained unit and touched the screen every time I
needed to turn the display on for 10 seconds to read info. Ultimately
I connected it through a USB power connect to the main glider battery
to keep the display permanently on at maximum brightness. This works
fine and the display is visible in bright sunlight. I have thought
about replacing the PDA with one of the newer much larger and brighter
systems now available and if I were to ever buy a new glider I would
design the instrument panel to accept one. However retrofitting into
an existing panel poses problems and I believe that the PDA format
will be with us for some time yet. One thing I would emphasize is that
if you are going to update your PDA the new one should be self
contained including the GPS.
Dave