Stewart Kissel wrote:
For the digital crowd...a question. I am running a
SNAV/GPSNAV quite happily...but will send the GPSNAV
in for calibration and can pay to have it upgraded
to run the Compaq. Before I go this route....

1.) I already have the Aero and all the cables and
mounts
2.) I do not race
3.) I fly CC...but generally check out the landout
fields early season...so the GPSNAV display tells me
distance...but I know where the field is. The SNAV
gives me glideslope to landouts.

What have you guys seen as the main assest when one
upgrades to this type of PDA? The moving map? I use
the GPSNAV to carry task information from the ship.
Any comments on the two types of software? I use
SeeYou for flight analysis and quite like it.

My experience, after years of flying with and without a moving map:

* if I am very familiar with the area, then the moving map adds very little
* otherwise, it's quite an asset
* this true even for a rudimentary map that just shows the waypoints,
but adding the rivers, towns, roads helps too.
* having the airspace show can be VERY useful, as I occasionally fly
near B and C airspace, and complicated restricted areas
* a map that shows which landing places can be currently reached makes
it easier for me to go cross-country safely.

I used Glide Navigator for years and liked it; now I use SeeYou Mobile
because I believe the terrain and some other features will be helpful,
since about half my flying each year is in unfamiliar places, most of
them with mountains.

With GN you can download your flight to the PDA and leave the logger in
the ship. Mobile can't do this, but I expect it will by next season.

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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA