Dan or Sean

What model Dell Streak is best for XC soar?

Nick

On Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 9:24:26 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
On a more serious note, Bob's complaint and Sean's (and others')
rather aggressive responses simply support the notion of "Diff'rent
strokes for diff'rent folks)".



I make no bones that I'm a fan of XCSoar.* Maybe iGlide allows task
generation* if 3 less keystrokes, but who cares?* I've got all day.*
Heck, I can even build and declare a task today for a flight
tomorrow.* I like XCSoar the best because it's the one I have the
most experience with.* My glider came with WinPilot but the former
owner told me about XCSoar and I bought a Mio GPS and gave it a
try.* For someone who'd never used a moving map before (military,
airlines, corporate, gliding) it was eye-opening!



The only shortcomings were power and sunlight readability.* Then a
friend showed me his Dell Streak 5 and I found I could read it with
the sun shining over my shoulder!* This is 5+ year old technology,
folks!* Why haven't all the makers of portable devices tried
transflective technology?* Anyway, for $100 brand new on eBay and
with free software, why would you want anything else?* Seriously,
who needs realtime doppler radar overlays while soaring?



I submit that any one of us can get used to any of these products
and become quite proficient with it.* Then, upon having difficulty
operating a new interface, it's easy to claim that the first is
better than the second.