The Oudies Have Arrived

Paul Remde wrote:
Hi,

I just received my first batch of Naviter Oudies./snip/
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/seeyou.htm

All 30 of the units received today have already been sold
/snip/

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.

Paul's note reminded me of the impetus that this newsgroup provided
me not so long ago; and (among others) how useful Paul's hints on
loading a PDA with effective displays for the cockpit turned out to be.

In flying from Oklahoma to the Gulf last weekend, I finally had the
opportunity to check out the device that I had loaded.

Sure, not bright in sunlight, but usable. And the quasi-Primary Flight
Display (or call it a quasi-Attitude Director - ADI) was much less handy
than the moving map selection. Seeing a destination airfield on the nose
from 40 miles away was reassuring. In my case, when the Corpus Christi
ATIS warns arrivals not to mistake the similar looking Naval airfield 4
miles SW for Corpus International - that was visually obvious!

The difference that a power feed makes to GPS satellite capture was my
biggest surprise. When I added a simple Garmin for course to Airport,
distance to run, present track, and ETE, my security felt pretty much
iron-clad.

Brian W