Hello all,

Just recently purchased a Palm Tungsten C. Great piece of kit!! Seeing as how this is my first ever Palm or other handheld, I am quite new to the technology that is packed into these units. I have heard that there is aviation related software out there for the Palms. The question is not where to find it necessarily, (I've seen the www.palmflying.com web site) but how do I know if it's the "latest and greatest"?? I guess what I'm trying to say is that there is so much stuff out there, how do you determine which is the best one to suit your needs?

Any comments or suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Joe

First of all, use the search facility to search this topic for 'palm software', it has been discussed before and some useful stuff was tossed around.

Second, although not the latest and greatest, I have a few programs that have established permanent residence in my m100:

"CoPilot" by laurie davis. Excellent flight planner, got it free from Handango. Useful from a C172 to jets, dead useful for diversions, etc, where is such and such a waypoint, etc. Combine it with the excellent waypoint generator http://navaid.com/CoPilot and you have a powerful pre and in flight planning tool

"YAUC" ('yet another unit converter') small unit converter that converts just about every known SI unit to imperial (and Roman) units. Want to explain how powerful the new Ford 260kWatt V8 is to a Yank ... YAUC.

"FlyBy E6B" is an excellent whizz-wheel replacement, cost about US$15, I was happy to pay for it after the trial. Download trial version for free

Likewise, "eSixB+" is a good whizz wheel replacement, with the ONLY daylight/darkness calculator i have seen that allows you to choose 'evening civil twilight' as against sunset.

If you don't have Documents to Go, get yourself a mini-Excel spreadsheet. TinySheet is good. I use it for other calculations including one inop PNR/LPSD/ETP and similar.

AvantGo will allow you to download the flight schedules of local airlines so if someone asks 'will the pax in 8D be able to catch another flight to SYD if he misses his connection..." you can see if there is another scheduled flight. Etc

Palm. Dont leave home without it!!

Thaks ITCZ,

I had left this topic for dead, but thanks to you, you were able to shed some light onto the topic at hand.

I liked your closer, "Palm, don't leave home without it". Very true!!

All the best,

Joe