On Jun 29, 3:32*pm, brian whatcott wrote:
It's thanks to this group that I bought a PNA and loaded it with a
moving map. The Garmin IQue and APIC combination has been a great boon
cross-country despite the well known problems with bright sunlight and
small text on screen.
And now I have ordered a chinese 5 inch PNA for the same purpose.
The question: * is there a more comprehensive software offering to load
that would be suitable for powered flight?
Something that depicts airfields well, that needs no setup...

Thanks for any clues...

Brian W

Your last sentence is the killer ......"Something that depicts
airfields well, that needs no setup"...

There are good flying tools like the Garmin Airmap type units that
depict airfield layouts, that comes loaded ready to go...however I
think you had low price as part of your criteria?

You might want to check the Oudie, but its basically like the unit you
bought but preloaded with the software.

I have been using XCSoar in the motor glider and now even better the
LK8000 spinoff of XCSoar on a 4.3" iPAQ 310......
works great and gets improvements to the LK8000 software monthly.

Takes abotu 5 minutes to do an update and is simply a copy of the
latest software on top of the old stuff on the SD chip.

I have simply made copies of the 2mb chip and loaded their local area
maps for those that are not gadget geeks and they are up and running
instantly.

LK8000 is free and I believe you can load/attach auxilliary info for
airfields, although I have personally not tried that yet.

The existing airfield information includes coordinates, airspace
frequencies, runway numbers and occasionally comments so I dont find
the need to see an airport map since I dont fly in to anything more
complex that Class D airspace.

It would take some work however to gather the extra airport info and
load it up yourself if you wanted more details ....ie setup....

Perhaps we need a couple guru's to offer combos preloaded and
configured like the Oudie marketers are doing.

Ray