Of course, there are the CF GPS types (flash card) that
circument all of these problems for about $200 and work
with all the WinCE PDAs.

My Casio is fine in a car but rather dim in an open
cockpit biplane.

HAL--

I ended up going to CompUSA and buying a Pharos Streetnav system for $199.

I did this because the CF card type GPS will rarely work unless handheld
outdoors. So you need a puck type gps on your dash out under clear glass
Secondly these maps suck up gobs of memory so you need your CF card slot
open for that. The Pharos software is fine for around town, they do not have
an aviation package. If I used their software to get to sun-n-fun it would
have taken up 120 meg of the 128 meg cf card. Instead I installed the
Teletype software and selected a 10 mile wide strip of map deatail from St.
Louis to Lakeland, then a wide area of detail maps including Lakeland,
Orlando, Tampa, and Cape Canaveral.. this all was 59meg or so. In all the
software and hardware worked fine.

One thing.. road turbulence made it very difficult to operate tiny buttons

and menus.. my guess is you would have a hard time in a plane with these
PDA's at times.

...Chrissi
Cozy Mk-IV 13B-turbo
www.CozyGirrrl.com

Chrissi,

You didn't mention if you have an IPAQ. (assuming you do) Here in SoCal we
have a local place that can put in a 256MB Memory module (internal). It
voids the warranty of course, but works great! And of course there are
larger CF cards or even the IBM Microdrives..up to 1GB ($300 I think)

They also have larger internal batteries, and memory upgrades for other
brands. This is the place: http://www.pocketpctechs.com/ Located in Fountain
Valley, CA. (Orange County, south of LA)

For anyone interested, The IPAQ's have by far the brightest screens out
there. To save battery power my light (which can be incredibly bright when
needed) is turned off. I can all my data and pictures in anything from
sunlight to a darkened fluorescent lit meeting room.....I read racing
stories at lunch in my car today. Awesome screen!

As far as communicating between devices...start thinking Bluetooth! It comes
standard on the top end IPAQ, and can be added to any.

JET

 
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