loopfuzz
Well Known Member
My flight bag will soon be boasting one of these:
http://www.myviliv.com/ces/main_s5.html
Ron thats a cool little device. Where can you buy one of those?
My flight bag will soon be boasting one of these:
http://www.myviliv.com/ces/main_s5.html
My flight bag will soon be boasting one of these:
http://www.myviliv.com/ces/main_s5.html
The device includes a GPS and I have an XP application that can prepare the flight plan and overlay position directly on the charts (sectionals). Awesome additional situation awareness for us in the deeeep south. (Our GPS databases are not generally well populated).
The display is not particularly cockpit friendly (unfortunately), but it is a full XP computer with SSD and internet connectivity. The S5 should fit easily in the cockpit - the X70 is a 7" version that may be more useful in the long run.
cheers,
Ron
RV-10 VH-XRM, flying in Oz
Meanwhile; it seems that Sony may be next in-line to deliver a cockpit-friendly eBook
reader.
You guys are talking an unfamiliar language that is way beyond my understanding. Answer me this. Can the user load a series of current sectional charts into such a device? What I (and I suspect many other VFR pilots) would be interested in is a large color display that would allow the pilot to manipulate the displayed information by touch alone to scroll from one geographical area to the next. Its functions would have to include an in-out zoom feature. Does this exist?
> mail it to your Kindle account. I tried transferring it from my computer and got
> the "Can not display all images" message
Neither the Kindle 1 or Kindle 2 natively support PDFs. When you 'mail' the document to
Amazon, they *attempt* to convert the PDF to native Kindle format. Sadly; their
PDF --> Kindle (v1 or v2) translator does not support vector graphics.
The Kindle DX is the first Kindle-family device to include a PDFviewer. Sadly; their
PDFviewer is crippled. Perhapss they'll fix it, perhaps not.
You missed my point entirely.
According to the folks that make the screen for the Kindle DX; Sony will have a large
format ebook reader using the same screen. I'm hoping/guessing that they'd probably
want to have it for the Xmas season.
As you point out, the current Sony's lack WiFi or cellular. Neither are on my list of
must-have features.
The Kindles lack:
- Screen light
- Memory slot (expandable memory)
- Full-function PDFviewer
- Touch screen
Sony already includes all these items ... and I hope a large-format Sony ebook reader will
include these same features. Of course; they could screw it up. <g>
I can see how your methodology works for airports with a only a few pages
of stuff. My sleepy class-D has 41 pages of approaches, minimimums, STARs
& DPs. Too much page-forward/backwarding for my taste.
thats cool man, now i just gotta buy a kindle dxI have made my own Kindle approach plates, they have:
- hyperlinks embedded in them so you can just click the airport that you want to go to.
- Broken up into volumes
- the entire country will fit on a DX.
- are FREE
let me know what you guys think.
http://www.nacosync.com
anywhere that you could plug in additional memory sticks.
Is 3.3GB enough to get the whole nation's worth of plates in this thing?
I assume one could just select the states we need from Rainsux excellent website to down load?
has anyone tried one of these yet?
Frank