Garmin READY Pad / Columbia Aircraft

[gnx99]

Finally a keypad/keyboard in GA cockpits! Rather impressive list of features/specs too.

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=4ee83945-e4e4-45f8-b0b7-110693fdd761&#d

 

[pilotmiketx]

Now, if somebody would just make a freaking QWERTY keyboard, I could quit the hunt and peck on the FMS.

 

[mzaharis]

Did someone mess up and have a premature (press) release? They took it off of the aero-news.net website.

EDIT

Searched around, and found a new link - the old one was a "headline" that was replaced.

http://www.aero-news.net/news/genav.cfm?ContentBlockID=4ee83945-e4e4-45f8-b0b7-110693fdd761&Dynamic=1&Range=NOW&FromDate=10%2F30%2F2005&ToDate=11%2F02%2F2005&Category=%2Fnews%2Fgenav.cfm

 

[seethru]

OK, that's pretty cool.

I've been waiting for something like that. I've gotten tired of the tedious twisting of the knobs on the 530/430. Hopefully it will be coming to those models sometime too.