N395V
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Not sure if this is the correct forum but........................................
I am struggling with the decision of what is the best in cockpit downloadable weather, moving map and charting/approach plate system,devices, software.
I have eliminated Jepp due to expense and papercharts and plates due to inconvenience, weight, and lack of space.
My typical trip is 2-4000NM over 12 days and as such I really need plates for the entire US.
I have been running (variously) Flitesoft/Vista, Truemap, Chartcase( All have Wx Works, aproach plates and enroute IFR and VFR charts) on a tablet with a holux GPS and Wx Worksreceiver.
By far the weather works software offers the best ability to view their aviator package products. Truemap is a close second. Weather products viewable on Vista and chartcase suck.
Trumap has great enroute and approach graphics and is easy to use. Flightplanning sucks.
ChartsCase offers great raster sectionals and IFR charts as well as plates and on precision approaches (some ) you can use the plate on the moving map. Their weather viewing selection is fair to poor and flight planning sucks.
FliteSoft/Vista are awsome in flight planning and pulling up approach plates and in flight info but their viewable weather selection sucks.
All three are relatively cheap annual updates for the lower 48 and all run well on most tablet PCs.
Data selection with a stylus is somewhat problematic especially in turbulence but is less problematic than finding stuff on paper charts. The best solution I have found for this is a mouse that you wear as a ring.
Another problem that has arisen recently is that I now realize hard drives do not like thin air and I am frying a hard drive every 6 months.
I am currently looking at building a PC into the plane with either a solid state hard drive or a hard drive in a pressurized container.
A simpler solution is to sell all the stuff including my 296 and get a 396 for weather and backup, use the moving map in the efis for nav and carying just my flight planning software and plates on a tablet but never turn it on above 10,000 feet. With enroutes and VFR up to date in the EFIS One I will be legal and shouldn't have to update the 396 at $300/year. But I really like the versatility and information from the software packages.
Anybody have any thoughts or preferences in what they do?
Milt
I am struggling with the decision of what is the best in cockpit downloadable weather, moving map and charting/approach plate system,devices, software.
I have eliminated Jepp due to expense and papercharts and plates due to inconvenience, weight, and lack of space.
My typical trip is 2-4000NM over 12 days and as such I really need plates for the entire US.
I have been running (variously) Flitesoft/Vista, Truemap, Chartcase( All have Wx Works, aproach plates and enroute IFR and VFR charts) on a tablet with a holux GPS and Wx Worksreceiver.
By far the weather works software offers the best ability to view their aviator package products. Truemap is a close second. Weather products viewable on Vista and chartcase suck.
Trumap has great enroute and approach graphics and is easy to use. Flightplanning sucks.
ChartsCase offers great raster sectionals and IFR charts as well as plates and on precision approaches (some ) you can use the plate on the moving map. Their weather viewing selection is fair to poor and flight planning sucks.
FliteSoft/Vista are awsome in flight planning and pulling up approach plates and in flight info but their viewable weather selection sucks.
All three are relatively cheap annual updates for the lower 48 and all run well on most tablet PCs.
Data selection with a stylus is somewhat problematic especially in turbulence but is less problematic than finding stuff on paper charts. The best solution I have found for this is a mouse that you wear as a ring.
Another problem that has arisen recently is that I now realize hard drives do not like thin air and I am frying a hard drive every 6 months.
I am currently looking at building a PC into the plane with either a solid state hard drive or a hard drive in a pressurized container.
A simpler solution is to sell all the stuff including my 296 and get a 396 for weather and backup, use the moving map in the efis for nav and carying just my flight planning software and plates on a tablet but never turn it on above 10,000 feet. With enroutes and VFR up to date in the EFIS One I will be legal and shouldn't have to update the 396 at $300/year. But I really like the versatility and information from the software packages.
Anybody have any thoughts or preferences in what they do?
Milt