Hand Held Weight and Balance

[Paterbrat]

Using the Panasonic Toughbook from Flight Deck Resources with Jeppesen Flightstar/Flightmap 9.0 Corporate version in which we have modeled our aircraft. Also have Flight Deck and JepView installed.

Print out via a USB IR dongle which allows communication/connecting to an IR port in a Cannon BJC 50 portable printer. The program gives weight and balance chart with T/O C/G and landing C/G, Flight Logs, flight plan forms FAA/and ICAO . We can also print out and have hard papercopies of our landing plates selected from JepView, and use Flight Deck on the PED in the cockpit as a back-up and data base. of departure destination and alternate plates for each sector.

The new Centrino chip 900mhz Pentium means the battery lasts about six-seven and a half hours between charges. Full Windows XP operating system 256 expandable to 786 and a 40Gig hard disc , wireless LAN means you can use it down route as a fully functional laptop. It's waterproof shockproof and has colour TFT active matrix touch screen which is smaller than the dimensions of an A4 sheet is less than two inches thick and very light about 4 pounds. Good screen visibility in sunlight or night and very fine resolution.