Best PDA or tablet soln for GPS & XM WX and gyro AI

Check this out, I stumbled across the website a few days ago and it
looks pretty nice:

http://www.aviationsafety.com/

I have this product and it is good for terrain, best altitude by winds
aloft, gas prices, etc.

With WxWorx, it is running on a navAero tPad800. Great concept all for
around $3000. BUUUTTT! The hard drive will fail if you fly above 9-10,000
for more than an hour or so. Not may, will! It has done so on all of the
four previous flights since the product was delivered in Jan.

Keep this in mind when choosing a product. I would go with a PDAs, tablets
or other product, if possible, without a hard drive.

YRMV, {|;-)

Victor J. (Jim) Osborne, Jr.

VOsborne2 at charter dot net
"Ben Hallert" wrote in message
ups.com...
Check this out, I stumbled across the website a few days ago and it
looks pretty nice:

http://www.aviationsafety.com/

"Victor J. Osborne, Jr." wrote in message
...
I have this product and it is good for terrain, best altitude by winds
aloft, gas prices, etc.

With WxWorx, it is running on a navAero tPad800. Great concept all for
around $3000. BUUUTTT! The hard drive will fail if you fly above 9-10,000
for more than an hour or so. Not may, will! It has done so on all of the
four previous flights since the product was delivered in Jan.

Keep this in mind when choosing a product. I would go with a PDAs,
tablets or other product, if possible, without a hard drive.

Why would altitude affect a hard drive?

FWIW, I run my iPod at high altitudes all the time with no failures.

Michael

Michael 182 wrote:
Why would altitude affect a hard drive?

Because the hard drive head "flies" over the platter. The tolerances
are tight enough and things move quickly enough inside the drive that
the air has a big affect on how close the read/write head gets to the
disc platter, and the drive is designed with this in mind.

Take the air away, and the head that was supposed to be hovering a few
mils over the disc is now scratching up the surface on which the data is
stored. Not a recipe for reliable long-term data storage.

See the following page for more detail:
http://www.storagereview.com/guide20.../opHeight.html

FWIW, I run my iPod at high altitudes all the time with no failures.

Then somebody did a good job designing the hard drive in it, assuming
that it has a hard drive. The iPod Shuffle uses flash ram instead of a
hard drive and should work in a vacuum -- even if listening to music in
a vacuum appears to be impractical. :-)

-Luke

"Luke Scharf" wrote in message
...
Michael 182 wrote:
Why would altitude affect a hard drive?

Because the hard drive head "flies" over the platter. The tolerances are
tight enough and things move quickly enough inside the drive that the air
has a big affect on how close the read/write head gets to the disc
platter, and the drive is designed with this in mind.

Take the air away, and the head that was supposed to be hovering a few
mils over the disc is now scratching up the surface on which the data is
stored. Not a recipe for reliable long-term data storage.

Thanks. Good explanation.



FWIW, I run my iPod at high altitudes all the time with no failures.

Then somebody did a good job designing the hard drive in it, assuming that
it has a hard drive. The iPod Shuffle uses flash ram instead of a hard
drive and should work in a vacuum -- even if listening to music in a
vacuum appears to be impractical. :-)

No, I have the 20 gig drive.

Michael

Motion Computing LE1600.

Great display, 1GB Celeron, 30GB HD.

http://www.motioncomputing.com/produ...blet_pc_le.asp

Interesting thread he

http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/forum/to...TOPIC_ID=22517

includes several photos of the Motion machine in a cockpit.

If the link doesn't work, search on "cockpit" will get you the thread.

On 6/12/2005 10:13 AM, Matt Barrow wrote the following:
Motion Computing LE1600.

Great display, 1GB Celeron, 30GB HD.

http://www.motioncomputing.com/produ...blet_pc_le.asp

"Mitty" wrote in message ...
Interesting thread he

http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/forum/to...TOPIC_ID=22517

includes several photos of the Motion machine in a cockpit.

If the link doesn't work, search on "cockpit" will get you the thread.

On 6/12/2005 10:13 AM, Matt Barrow wrote the following:
Motion Computing LE1600.

Great display, 1GB Celeron, 30GB HD.

http://www.motioncomputing.com/produ...blet_pc_le.asp


That is a lot of screen to be looking at - I hope those folks are looking outside more than they are looking inside.