Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 08:01:08 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from cepheus.email.starband.net ([148.78.247.123] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 3061800 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 03 Mar 2004 20:15:19 -0500 Received: from starband.net (vsat-148-64-23-255.c050.t7.mrt.starband.net [148.64.23.255]) by cepheus.email.starband.net (8.12.9/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i241FGQx000390 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 20:15:19 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <4046831F.1020706@starband.net> X-Original-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:15:11 -0800 From: hwasti@starband.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Neat gadgets References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Posted for "Shannon Knoepflein" : > > My only complaint is that it is not very readable in direct sunlight. > My counter to this is that if I actually need it for an approach, then I > won't be in the sun anyway. Not so in all cases. In southern CA I have had many flights where the entire aproach was flown in bright sunlight above a solid marine layer. You enter IMC after being established on the ILS and then fly down to minimums. I experienced the same in the Sacramento area except that it was not a marine layer but fog instead. Also, if you are using the display for enroute charts, being in bright sunlight over a deck of clouds is not all that unusal, especially if you are flying in the flight levels in a IV-P. Hamid