Plates for PDA?

Kyler Laird wrote in news
Stan Gosnell writes:

Maybe as a backup, just to follow along, but the standard Jepp plate is
about as small as is practical, I think. We're starting to investigate
some electronic flight bags, with the approach plates built in, and those
might work, but a screen the size of a PDA is just too small to work with,
as a sole source of approach information.

It would beat getting the information from a controller.

--kyler

Maybe. But it sure wouldn't beat getting it from a standard approach plate.
Or an electronic depiction of a plate at standard size. Miniaturization is
wonderful for some things, not so great for others.

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Regards,

Stan

Kyler Laird wrote in message ...

What's wrong with scrolling? Do you really need to see the entire plate
when you're on the approach?

I find myself checking and double-checking things on different parts
of the plate throughout the approach. I hate scrolling to see the full
page of a website I'm looking at sitting on my ass in front of the
computer, let alone while I'm bouncing through the clouds.

I'm using a pen computer with a nice big screen for my experiments these
days. I'm much more comfortable with that size.

I find the paper plates to be absolutely perfect in terms of size in
particular and human factors in general. Plus no batteries, NMEA,
anything to worry about.

OK, having a little plane tracking my position around them would be
nice, but I'll survive until I can afford an MFD for that. Any kind of
moving map can provide most of that, and I just can't imagine flying
without paper plates (cups optional).

-cwk.