Return-Path: Received: from [65.173.216.66] (account ) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro WebUser 4.0.2) with HTTP id 1893777 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:47:02 -0500 From: "Marvin Kaye" Subject: Re: [LML] JeppView on a Tablet PC To: lml X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro Web Mailer v.4.0.2 Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:47:02 -0500 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <000001c29b11$520c91e0$1805000a@shannon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Posted for "Shannon Knoepflein" : I have one of the FlyMe systems that uses the Viewsonic Tablet PC. It comes with absolutely everything, including a printer that is about 1x2x10, a dvd player, built in wireless, built in digital camera, built in network card and modem, a docking station, a flight bag to carry it all in, an extra battery, power invertors for both 28 and 14 vdc systems, etc, etc. This all comes in a Jeppesen flight bag, and comes with FlightDeck, FlightMap, and JeppView. This allows you to plan your trip, get weather, print out your current charts for your trip and en route charts, and weather, etc. FlightDeck works incredible. It shows you as a nice little green stealth bomber looking shape on the screen, and shows you right where you are at on the plate. Then, almost more useful, once you get on the ground, you can bring up the airport diagram, and it shows you where you are at on the airport. This is incredibly useful for large and unfamiliar airports, and I have used it numerous times. FlightMap works well for an enroute backup GPS also, and is very customizable. Besides weather planning and printing out charts, you can do weight and balance too. Then, once you land and get in your 4 wheeled vehicle, you can switch over to some Atlas software that uses the GPS..again, very handy. I highly recommend the FlyMe system. --- Shannon Knoepflein <---> kycshann@kyol.net [ Shannon let me play with his toy, and I've played with a MS-Tablet-PC. The other problem aside from display brightness pointed out by Hamid, is the MS-Tablet-PC requires a special hover mode pen. While the FlyMe is a touch screen and CT-1000 has buttons around it. But I'm still a fan of paper as I can find the foobar intersection faster with a big low enroute chart than a tiny screen. but I'd love to buy a tiny b/w thermal printer (still more dots than any screen) with a two line display that let me walk through a directory structure to find an apt and all its approaches, then select print. But it would need a disk: % du -s /www/airports 19M Arrivals 72M EastCentral 24M images 43M main 64M NorthCentral 79M NorthEast 25M NorthWest 88M SouthCentral 85M SouthEast 64M SouthWest -Rob@Logan.com ]