Don't forget to look at FlyWithCE Navigator
http://www.flywithce.com/
You can use it for free also... same price as XCSoar
and not some trial version that alerts you every 2 minutes to tell you it's
not the real stuff.....it isn't a trial "simulator version, but one you can
actually fly with and use...and it's not a trial version you can only run on
a PC to see if you like it....it's the real stuff.
The PDA set-ups are still about the best bargain there is..they do just
about everything a $2000-$3000 or more computer can do for a fraction of the
cost...
FlyWithCE Navigator is really very good, easy to use PDA software....and you
can use it for free also...just like free XCSoar...
You can buy FlyWithCE Navigator also....but....it is free and 100%
functional for the first 30 days...same as if you buy it....but...after 30
days it's still free and functional..you lose only some extra features, that
if you want you can get by simply buying the software for about 1/2 the
cost of any other commercially sold glider software....what you lose with
the free version after 30 days is IGC* (not approved, but then none of the
PDA flight files are) flight file storage, the ability to select pre-planned
tasks, BitMap (sectional chart) display...and that's about it....everything
else works, just the same as if you had purchased it....and to most of us,
the free version is all we want....
I've used most of the other PDA software and FlyWithCE is IMHO far easier to
use that all of the others, far more intuative than others.
As for support, Uros has always been terrific and answering questions and
making changes if somene pointed out something useful to ad or change..and
thougn I don't have on-line support to sell you, I think any number of my
FlyWithCE Customers will tell you that I too have spent plenty of time with
them, walking them through set-up, showing them where to find data and even
installing the software "ready-to-fly" complete with their glider polars,
databases, even pilot names and contest numbers all registered to the
software when they bought PDA packages and even when they simply wanted to
try it.
It's good stuff...I use it myself and that's why I support it and offer
it...
http://www.wingsandwheels.com/FlyWithCE%20options.htm
tim
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