I have been searching for a while for a good solution for approach plates.  I think I have found it.

 

My wife and I travel cross country quite a bit.  We used to purchase all the paper plates for all the states we were going to fly over. This gave us a big stack of paper at a not insignificant cost.  It was not convenient to store the plates in the back of a Legacy and to reach around to find the proper book at the proper time.  And sometimes there was a mad dash to rush order the proper plates just days before our trip.

 

I tried Pocket Plates on an iPaq and although the software was good, I didn't like the screen size.  I was contemplating getting a tablet PC, but with a solid state drive and a daylight readable screen these are not cheap.  They are also fairly bulky.

 

I came across ReaderPlates (http://www.readerplates.com/) which seemed like a good idea and got a demo from the owner, John Lemberger at Sun n Fun.  I ended up purchasing the Sony Reader (PRS-505) for $270 and the software for $9.99 per month.

 

John gave me considerable help setting up my system (needed because of a strangely formatted 8 GB SD card I had put in it) and it is now running well.  The reader is small, light and daylight viewable.  I am going to try to put my checklists on it and as a bonus, I can always use it as a book reader.

D. Brunner