Letting my Flying Subscription Expire

Kyle Boatright wrote:
My last issue of Flying came in the mail today, and I won't be re-upping the
subscription. In recent years...

I haven't found anything relevant in Flying in decades. I haven't
subscribed since the eighties although I occasionally pick up a copy
while flying commercially (only thing the airport newsstands carry).

and weather downlink. Each and every single article and column mentions
how great it is.

Perhaps they are overdoing it, but it would be hard to overestimate how
revolutionary this technology will be for light GA flying in the U. S.

Hey Dan, I was able to use the XM weather feature extensively on our
flight to Las Vegas (on Jim Burns' new tablet computer), and it was
awesome.

One glitch: In the turbulence like we ran into, I found I could not
look at it, for fear of losing my cookies. Trying to click the screen
with the stylus, while looking down, while floating on your seat belt,
was a real exercise in inner-ear/hand-eye coordination.

In this regard, your 396 would be vastly superior, with dedicated
buttons, mounted up on the yoke (rather than in your lap). In ever
other way, however, that huge screen weather depiction was simply
fabulous.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On 23 Mar 2006 21:21:23 -0800, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

and weather downlink. Each and every single article and column mentions
how great it is.

Perhaps they are overdoing it, but it would be hard to overestimate how
revolutionary this technology will be for light GA flying in the U. S.

Hey Dan, I was able to use the XM weather feature extensively on our
flight to Las Vegas (on Jim Burns' new tablet computer), and it was
awesome.

One glitch: In the turbulence like we ran into, I found I could not
look at it, for fear of losing my cookies. Trying to click the screen
with the stylus, while looking down, while floating on your seat belt,
was a real exercise in inner-ear/hand-eye coordination.

In this regard, your 396 would be vastly superior, with dedicated
buttons, mounted up on the yoke (rather than in your lap). In ever
other way, however, that huge screen weather depiction was simply
fabulous.

Does the tablet have a hard drive and does the processor cache things
to disk? Does it do seeks for new data when it can't update a page
from the current buffer? Do other programs access the disk while the
nav program is running? I was idly wondering the other day about
head crashes due to turbulence. Any thoughts?

Don

Don

"Jay Honeck" wrote:

and weather downlink. Each and every single article and column mentions
how great it is.

Perhaps they are overdoing it, but it would be hard to overestimate how
revolutionary this technology will be for light GA flying in the U. S.

Hey Dan, I was able to use the XM weather feature extensively on our
flight to Las Vegas (on Jim Burns' new tablet computer), and it was
awesome.

One glitch: In the turbulence like we ran into, I found I could not
look at it, for fear of losing my cookies. Trying to click the screen
with the stylus, while looking down, while floating on your seat belt,
was a real exercise in inner-ear/hand-eye coordination.

Roger that. I used to use a notebook pc for XM Wx. It was a pain in the
ass at the best of times and a hazard in turbulence.

In this regard, your 396 would be vastly superior, with dedicated
buttons, mounted up on the yoke (rather than in your lap). In ever
other way, however, that huge screen weather depiction was simply
fabulous.

Yeah, I'd like a little bigger screen--which I'm sure Garmin has in the
works to absorb more of my money in a year or two. Still, I love the the
396. It is now a go/no go item for me if CBs are any more than isolated.
Can't imagine how I ever flew without it.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

"Don Tuite" wrote:

Does the tablet have a hard drive and does the processor cache things
to disk? Does it do seeks for new data when it can't update a page
from the current buffer? Do other programs access the disk while the
nav program is running? I was idly wondering the other day about
head crashes due to turbulence. Any thoughts?

I never had a head crash with the Sony Vaio notebook I used to use, even
though I did occasionally use it above 10,000', which others have reported
to cause crashes..

I did have some of the usual Windows glitches. What's annoying at your desk
is something else entirely when you're depending on a pc to help you dodge
death.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM