In article .com,
Wiz wrote:
I have a great little Fujitsu touchscreen tablet-type PC and a
Bluetooth GPS receiver. I'm considering acquiring software to use the
tablet as a moving map and Wx device, just buying a Garmin 396 or 496,
or using Flightmaster and Copilot on my Palm Treo and doing without
weather. I've seen a couple of posts on various software packages,
but nothing too recent.

Anyone have any experience with the current versions of Anywhere Map
or Flight Cheetah? Anyone using Flightmaster? I'm interested in your
impressions, and what factors affected your choice.

Thanks in advance.

Wiz

I'm not sure that you can purchase the standalone Flight Cheetah
software for use on your own hardware, or at least your own display
device, but I could be mistaken.

I wasn't too pleased with Anywhere Map for my sole portable GPS unit,
due primarily to bugs and inaccuracies in the software itself, combined
with all of the Windows-related problems. However, the product does
have features not found in some other packages, and has constantly
evolved (though slowly) over the years, often sporting innovative
features (usually with bugs attached) before others. If you have a
panel-mount GPS and just want geo-referenced plates and weather, and are
willing to live with the glitches of Windows, AWM may not be a bad
solution for you. There are probably more polished options on the
market, but AWM is perhaps a value-leader, and that's why they are so
successful. I will caution you, though, that "customer service" appears
to be a distant concept to the AWM folks, especially after the first 30
days.



JKG