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Old 11th December 2000 | 20:40
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Canuck_AV8R
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Hi Folks:

I recently treated myself to a Visor Prism. One of those wonderful things you can do with a good profit-sharing cheque.

I have been using it for about a month now and I LOVE it. The colour screen is bright and clear. It is fast (33Mhz processor). The native apps like Date Book + is a great scheduling tool. I use mine for all the usual organizing stuff plus I have my logbook on it (Captain's Keeper, pricey but very versatile) I also run a program called FlybyE6B which is a quite good flight computer app.

The only concern I have is with battery life the rechargables say they have a 6-8 hour life but with heavy use and the screen set to full brightness (needed in bright sunlight) I find battery consumption quite high and until Handspring makes a travel adapter available for the Visor I have to lug around the Hotsync cradle to recharge the batteries on the road.

Anyone have any recomendations for good aviation related software for the Palm/Handspring PDAs. Mine are mentioned above.

Cheers

Canuck