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Old 8th May 2006 | 21:08
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Mike Cross
 
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From: Savannah GA & Portsmouth UK
Errrr....

Wot's wrong wiv using a proper GPS wiv a proper updatable Jepp database and uploading your route from Navbox? That way you get runway headings, freqs etc.

Being a bear of very little mental capacity I prefer a "track up" orientation so all I have to do is keep the little aeroplane on the line that's running vertically up my screen. Fortunately this is not too difficult so I have plenty of time to indulge in plane-spotting. The downside of Memory Map is that, while it can give you "track up" it can't turn the place names the right way up so you either spend your time figuring whether it's a right or left turn to regain track or else you try to turn your head upside down to work out the name of that airfield in your 2 o'clock.

Oh - and the other thing was that the pocket PC I was using kept crashing (is Windoze the best OS for aviating?)

Mike
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