On 23 Mar 2006 21:21:23 -0800, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

and weather downlink. Each and every single article and column mentions
how great it is.

Perhaps they are overdoing it, but it would be hard to overestimate how
revolutionary this technology will be for light GA flying in the U. S.

Hey Dan, I was able to use the XM weather feature extensively on our
flight to Las Vegas (on Jim Burns' new tablet computer), and it was
awesome.

One glitch: In the turbulence like we ran into, I found I could not
look at it, for fear of losing my cookies. Trying to click the screen
with the stylus, while looking down, while floating on your seat belt,
was a real exercise in inner-ear/hand-eye coordination.

In this regard, your 396 would be vastly superior, with dedicated
buttons, mounted up on the yoke (rather than in your lap). In ever
other way, however, that huge screen weather depiction was simply
fabulous.

Does the tablet have a hard drive and does the processor cache things
to disk? Does it do seeks for new data when it can't update a page
from the current buffer? Do other programs access the disk while the
nav program is running? I was idly wondering the other day about
head crashes due to turbulence. Any thoughts?

Don

Don