Backup plates on PDA

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Stan Prevost" wrote:
We just upgraded our AnyWhereMap system to AnyWhereWx (XM Wx) with a new
iPAQ,

How do you like that setup, Stan?


I don't know yet, Dan. I'll try to give a PIREP when I get back from the
trip. There are several choices in configuring the equipment. The iPAQ PDA
has Bluetooth, XM satellite receiver has Bluetooth, and they have a
Bluetooth GPS. You get to choose either XM or GPS to have the Bluetooth
connection to the PDA. The other one gets a cable. Since we already had
the GPS with a cable, we went with the BT XM rx. We experimented some, and
wound up just dropping the XM rx in the pouch behind the pilot's seat.
Actually, now it behind the copilot's seat, both work well.

The new PDA is nice but I have all of about ten minutes using the weather.
Others have reported it as being valuable.

Stan

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Stan Prevost wrote:
You get to choose either XM or GPS to have the Bluetooth
connection to the PDA. The other one gets a cable.

Why? You can have up to 8 devices (1 master, 7 slaves) in a bluetooth
network. And there's more than enough bandwidth for a couple of serial
connections.

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

"Ben Jackson" wrote in message
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In article ,
Stan Prevost wrote:
You get to choose either XM or GPS to have the Bluetooth
connection to the PDA. The other one gets a cable.

Why? You can have up to 8 devices (1 master, 7 slaves) in a bluetooth
network. And there's more than enough bandwidth for a couple of serial
connections.


I don't know why, and I may have that wrong. That's how I understood they
told us it had to be, but I didn't pursue it because we wanted to use our
existing GPS. And I didn't know any better, not being knowledgeable about
BT networks.

Stan

"Stan Prevost" wrote:
We just upgraded our AnyWhereMap system to AnyWhereWx (XM Wx) with a
new
iPAQ,

How do you like that setup, Stan?


I don't know yet, Dan. I'll try to give a PIREP when I get back from the
trip.

Please do!

I recently upgraded to AnywhereXM and have used it extensively over the past
couple of months. In short I can't imagine how I managed to fly around in
IMC for so long without it. Having the ability to see those nexrad images
displayed over my route of flight has enabled me to make some real tactical
decisions about my flight and routings that were all but impossible to make
before. Being given a change in routing and knowing that the new routing was
going to put you into an area of weather and negotiating a different routing
as a result has been wonderful. Overall the system has been reliable and
generally the weather is where it is depicted. There is a delay in the
images but that is not usually an issue in my spamcan. The metar and taf
data can be over an hour old and the visual display of clouds and visibility
can give an inaccurate picture of the weather ahead. All in all it's been a
great investment, right up there with my autopilot. I won't leave home
without it.

--
Rich Badaracco
Director Angel Flight North Carolina
N1943T

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
...

"Stan Prevost" wrote:
We just upgraded our AnyWhereMap system to AnyWhereWx (XM Wx) with a
new iPAQ,

How do you like that setup, Stan?

"Rich Badaracco" wrote:
I recently upgraded to AnywhereXM and have used it extensively over the
past
couple of months. In short I can't imagine how I managed to fly around in
IMC for so long without it.

You're preaching to the choir, Rich. I've had XM WxWorx for over a year and
I love it. I've not run across anyone who has it who is less than thrilled
with the performance of it.

I see you're with Angel Flight. Since I've had XM WxWorx I've definitely
taken more AF missions than I would have without it. I highly recommend it
to all AF pilots.

My question had more to do with what hardware Stan's running his on. I'm
using a Sony notebook pc, which has a superb display but is awkward to use in
the airplane. The PDA's I've seen look too small and have resolution too
poor to tempt me. What are you using?

--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM
Angel Flight SE

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:32:47 -0600, "Dan Luke" wrote:

My question had more to do with what hardware Stan's running his on. I'm
using a Sony notebook pc, which has a superb display but is awkward to use in
the airplane. The PDA's I've seen look too small and have resolution too
poor to tempt me. What are you using


I assume you are talking weather functions here.

I have used AnywhereMap on an Ipaq 5450 and the graphics/resolution is
great. for basic navigation.

Especially with the latest version that allows the user to set up
different views. You can define 5 different views that have unique
characteristics, so that a view you might use for pilotage is
completely different from one you might use for instrument approaches,
for example.

"Dan Luke" wrote in
:

My question had more to do with what hardware Stan's running his on.
I'm using a Sony notebook pc, which has a superb display but is
awkward to use in the airplane. The PDA's I've seen look too small
and have resolution too poor to tempt me. What are you using?

The latest Palms, specifically the T3 and T5, with 320x480 rotatable
screens, have excellent resolution, better than PPCs.

--
Regards,

Stan

I'm running it on an HP2215 with everything possible loaded on a storage
card. The application has been stable and seems to perform well. The screen
on the 2215 is a little bit on the small side but it's adequate. I upgraded
to the 2215 at the same time I ordered the WX from a 3650 which had a larger
screen and better readability in sunlight.

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
...

My question had more to do with what hardware Stan's running his on. I'm
using a Sony notebook pc, which has a superb display but is awkward to use
in
the airplane. The PDA's I've seen look too small and have resolution too
poor to tempt me. What are you using?

--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM
Angel Flight SE

This is a communication with Seattle Avionics re their SmartPlates product.
A question was raised in this thread about their 5X download claims vs the
file size of the chart available on their website.

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Stan,

Good question!

I checked, and the plate on our Website is directly from the FAA. With
SmartPlates, you have your choice of downloading the FAA plates directly or
our processed plates.

I can see where the source of that example on our Website isn't clear.
Originally, we had two paragraphs there, with the first describing in more
detail how the new FAA (actually now called "NACO", National Aeronautical
Charting Office)plates have been greatly improved over the last two years.
They used to have a bad reputation, but with the addition of colored
terrain, missed approach graphics, etc. they are now at least the equivalent
of Jepps.

For you to compare, attached is the same plate in our processed format. Not
as crisp, but a lot smaller. Ours range from 10K to 100k in size.

SmartPlates is a new product, and we are still trying different approaches
to compression. Using some new software we are working on, we think we will
be able to keep the same size we have now or smaller but with a crispness
near to the original NACOs.

Hope that helps. We want to earn you as a customer!

Best Regards,


Robert Hamilton

425-455-2209





-----Original Message-----

From: Stanley Prevost ]

Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 3:57 PM

To:

Subject: SmartPlates

Hello -

I am interested in your SmartPlates product, but I have a question. You say
that the plates are "preprocessed for optimal download". Looking at the
example plate you have on your website, it is essentially the same size as
the plates straight from NACO, only about 400 bytes different.

How will that download 5X faster?

Stan Prevost

Huntsville, AL