Peter Duniho wrote:
"Martin Hotze" wrote in message
The USB flash drives all act as a
standard disk controller, and the standard Windows USB drivers recognize
it
as such.

no sir.

Yes sir.

each USB stick needs is own set of drivers (unless you find some with the
sam chipset). But I agree, mostly these drivers come with a small cd-rom.

Baloney. The USB drives have the same disk controller interface found on a
variety of other USB-attached storage devices, and they all comply with the
standard supported in Windows. You do not need to go around installing
drivers specific to your USB flash drive just to get your flash drive to
work.

This is, in fact, one of the reasons that USB flash drives have become so
ubiquitous. Modern PCs already have all the software required in order to
display them as standard file storage devices. You just plug them in and
they work.

I finished a lesson Tuesday afternoon an noticed a Gulfstream on the
ramp, getting fuel and *kinda* getting ready to go. The copilot was
layin on the ground under the nose trying to reconnect something to
do with the gear (and yes, he's an A&P as well as a pilot). So I went
sightseeing and started chatting with the pilot. He was bored out of
his mind updating the FMS. A Rockwell Collins FMS. Jepp sends out a
CD with the updates but they can't use it. But, having the subscription,
they go on the Jepp website and download 5 floppy disks, then sped
45 min. or so doing the updates.

According to the pilot, no way to upgrade the FMS to use the CD.
What he really wants is the ability to use a USB drive with the
database for the upgrade! He can't even connect his laptop to the
system to do the upgrade from the CD.

There really are situations where us spam cans have an easier time
doing software upgrades to our equipment.