Fearless Tower
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Since I'll probably be renting planes rather than owning one for a while, I decided to invest in a high quality portable GPS.
I came across this in a magazine ad and it looks interesting:
http://www.anywheremap.com/anywheremap-pda.aspx
It basically provides the same stuff that a Garmin 496 does (GPS/moving map/XM weather...etc) plus it offers electronic approach plates all on a PDA/pocket PC.
Now the idea of having it all in one unit along with having the GPS info diplayed on electronic approach plates sounds pretty cool, but my experience with PDA's is that you have to do most everything with a stupid little stylus. It seems like trying to manipulate the pages and data on this thing while flying in a small plane on a less than calm day in IMC could be more of a hazard than it's worth.
Does anyone have any experience to the contrary?
I came across this in a magazine ad and it looks interesting:
http://www.anywheremap.com/anywheremap-pda.aspx
It basically provides the same stuff that a Garmin 496 does (GPS/moving map/XM weather...etc) plus it offers electronic approach plates all on a PDA/pocket PC.
Now the idea of having it all in one unit along with having the GPS info diplayed on electronic approach plates sounds pretty cool, but my experience with PDA's is that you have to do most everything with a stupid little stylus. It seems like trying to manipulate the pages and data on this thing while flying in a small plane on a less than calm day in IMC could be more of a hazard than it's worth.
Does anyone have any experience to the contrary?