How many pilots are using technology

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I would like to know, how many of us, pilots are using the current
technology out there to our benifit. I'm talking about GPS, E-Flight
Bag, E-Aviation Charts. How long do you think before paper-less
cockpits become the standard?
Dunno.
I would appreciate also air e-conditioning but my plane carries none.
But the most desirable item for my personal benefit is an engine that runs
on e-fuel where "e" stands for economic (distilled water would be fine).

Stefano wrote:
wrote:

I would like to know, how many of us, pilots are using the current
technology out there to our benifit. I'm talking about GPS, E-Flight
Bag, E-Aviation Charts. How long do you think before paper-less
cockpits become the standard?
Dunno.
I would appreciate also air e-conditioning but my plane carries none.
But the most desirable item for my personal benefit is an engine that runs
on e-fuel where "e" stands for economic (distilled water would be fine).

LOL -

"Ray" wrote in message
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Stefano wrote:
wrote:

I would like to know, how many of us, pilots are using the current
technology out there to our benifit. I'm talking about GPS, E-Flight
Bag, E-Aviation Charts. How long do you think before paper-less
cockpits become the standard?
Dunno.
I would appreciate also air e-conditioning but my plane carries none.
But the most desirable item for my personal benefit is an engine that
runs
on e-fuel where "e" stands for economic (distilled water would be fine).

LOL -

Don't know about you, but they are getting about $4.50 a gallon for water
around here.

Al G

We keep an updated Garmin 295 in our Skyhawk along with paper sectionals,
Low-Altitude Enroute charts, and plates. I use the AOPA flight planner and
TripPack on my laptop to print plates for trips outside the local area not
covered by my plate subscription. I don't see a time when paper goes
completely away, at least as a real-time backup.

For in-flight diverts, I find that I can page through a bound book of plates
much faster than I can jiggle the menus and buttons on the 295, so until
voice recognition is inexpensively available and the equipment & its power
supplies are totally reliable, redundant, and fail-safe, paper will have a
place in my airborne environment.

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I would like to know, how many of us, pilots are using the current
technology out there to our benifit. I'm talking about GPS, E-Flight
Bag, E-Aviation Charts. How long do you think before paper-less
cockpits become the standard?

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:33:30 GMT, "Leonard Ellis"
wrote:

We keep an updated Garmin 295 in our Skyhawk along with paper sectionals,
Low-Altitude Enroute charts, and plates. I use the AOPA flight planner and
TripPack on my laptop to print plates for trips outside the local area not
covered by my plate subscription. I don't see a time when paper goes
completely away, at least as a real-time backup.

For in-flight diverts, I find that I can page through a bound book of plates
much faster than I can jiggle the menus and buttons on the 295, so until
voice recognition is inexpensively available and the equipment & its power
supplies are totally reliable, redundant, and fail-safe, paper will have a
place in my airborne environment.

I'm waiting for the full sized, gyro stabilized keyboard so I can make
entries while flying and not have to page through 10 layers of button
pushes just to change/delete/insert a way point. Then again I guess
they'd need to stabilize the pilot's seat as well for that to
work.:-))

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com



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I would like to know, how many of us, pilots are using the current
technology out there to our benifit. I'm talking about GPS, E-Flight
Bag, E-Aviation Charts. How long do you think before paper-less
cockpits become the standard?


Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Cheap handheld GPS and paper charts. No handheld radio. Not even
headsets. Paint job will have to wait. Engine is new. Money goes into
hours in the air. That's what it's all about for me. YMMV.
--
Gene Seibel
Confessions of a Pilot - http://pad39a.com/publishing/
Because I fly, I envy no one.


wrote:
I would like to know, how many of us, pilots are using the current
technology out there to our benifit. I'm talking about GPS, E-Flight
Bag, E-Aviation Charts. How long do you think before paper-less
cockpits become the standard?

No handheld radio. Not even
headsets.

I'd reccomend at least $30 hearing protectors. You'll save more in ear
exams.

Jose
--
The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music.
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How long do you think before paper-less
cockpits become the standard?


It is an old joke, but the answer is that; 'we will see the paper-less
cockpit (and office) the same day we have a paper-less bathroom.'

ISTM that computer usage has resulted in more paper and not less.

Happy landings,

Private wrote:

It is an old joke, but the answer is that; 'we will see the paper-less
cockpit (and office) the same day we have a paper-less bathroom.'

ISTM that computer usage has resulted in more paper and not less.

While it is true that computers have resulted in more, not less, paper
being used, a paper-less office is very possible (depending on the
business). One of the reasons computers initially generated more paper,
is because of the larger amount of data they could provide, and the fact
that few had the computers on their desk. Not to mention that the
monitors were small and very low resolution. Today a paper-less office
is not hard to achieve with a little effort. However, I wouldn't even
consider having a paper-less cockpit. I also wouldn't want a
computer-less cockpit either though.

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Chris W wrote:

Private wrote:

It is an old joke, but the answer is that; 'we will see the paper-less
cockpit (and office) the same day we have a paper-less bathroom.'

ISTM that computer usage has resulted in more paper and not less.


While it is true that computers have resulted in more, not less, paper
being used, a paper-less office is very possible (depending on the
business). One of the reasons computers initially generated more paper,
is because of the larger amount of data they could provide, and the fact
that few had the computers on their desk. Not to mention that the
monitors were small and very low resolution. Today a paper-less office
is not hard to achieve with a little effort. However, I wouldn't even
consider having a paper-less cockpit. I also wouldn't want a
computer-less cockpit either though.

True, but paper is still the most reliable form of long-term storage.
Every electronic or optical medium developed thus far deteriorates with
age at a much faster rate than does paper.


Matt