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