I've been playing with this the last few days and find
it to be very impressive - at least on the ground.
It has a rich feature set a very clean interface (if
a bit of an eye test) and seems to be quite stable.
It appears that it is now competition-ready. Nice job!
9B
At 17:48 07 July 2004, Roy McMaster wrote:
MOBILE:
We are very pleased to inform you of the Internet availability
of
SeeYou MOBILE Version 2.0 released June 30, 2004.
There have been
significant improvements over the 2004 SSA Convention
version and you
should go to the web site and download the free upgrade
as soon as you
have an opportunity:
http://mobile.seeyou.ws/dload-mseeyou.php
Be sure you have your PDA in its cradle and Active
Sync running to
facilitate the transfer and installation.
There is also a PDF version of the Manual released
June 30, 2004 in
addition to the 'On Screen' help within the program.
You may find
benefit in printing the Manual and carefully reading
it to more fully
comprehend all the power of version 2.0. I found it
very useful.
http://mobile.seeyou.ws/dload-help.php
A significant concept, new to me, in MOBILE's moving
map is using the
L/D as the measure of ability to get to a given point
or airport. You
can set up two Nav Boxes on each map page with 'Required
L/D' and
'Current Achieved L/D'. I place Current above Required
and can easily
see my ability to make a given point and the safety
margin. The
'Altitude Reserve' you specified on the Mc/Wind page
is included in
the 'Required L/D' calculation. You no longer need
to think the
larger numbers of altitude and elevation, just what
kind of L/D (two
digit numbers) you need compared with what you actually
have. This
automatically corrects for estimated wind, bugs, water
ballast and
sink!
Other outstanding features include automatic START
with the time
displayed on the screen, Airspace Warnings and automatic
logging of
the flight from the received GPS data, not the log
in a logger memory.
Read the Manual so you don't miss the many important
features so easy
to use once you know how to activate them.
SeeYou:
You should also be running SeeYou v2.7 for the latest
MOBILE
Connection Wizard to easily transfer the desired Vector
maps,
waypoints, airports and airspace into your PDA.
http://www.seeyou.ws/dload-seeyou.php
Be sure you select the 'UPGRADE' or you will loose
your personal
settings and registration key and have to reenter them.
Check your SeeYou waypoint database to verify if the
runways are
properly aligned after removing the magnetic variation.
That way they
will display in the proper orientation on MOBILE's
maps. The World
Wide Turnpoint Exchange has a SeeYou.CUP version of
each database
under the 'Files Formatted for Downloading' section.
See the example
for Harris Hill on the link below. You have to scroll
down to
http://acro.harvard.edu/SOARING/JL/T...ll//files.html
You can easily verify if your waypoint database in
SeeYou has the
runway info or if you need to open and correct each
point. If all the
runways are aligned North-South nothing has been done
to correct the
database. You may also notice all are identified as
PAVED RUNWAYS.
Good luck and contact Andrej or me if you need help.
I know you will
spread the word once you start using it!
Roy McMaster
SeeYouİ USA
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Elmira, NY 14903-9345
607-734-4308 Office
607-738-8444 Cell
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