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Old 24th Mar 2007, 09:52
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Footless Halls
 
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Dead right.

I fly VFR most of the time, with a little IMC now and again.

I use 'fly' and the grea thing is I can access if from the ''thought Police' constrained PC at work or at home. And at the airfield I can just about use it using GPRS (or wi fi when available) on my xda Exec. I can also get met and winds from the Met Office website via GPRS/wi fi on the xda.

I can type any route I plan on 'fly' into my Garmin 196 quite easily and draw it onto my map by hand. This "manual intervention" forces me to make a sense check and to review the planned route against the map.

I hanker after something more sophisticated for the PC, but perhaps such does not exist? I've got enough clunky second-grate shelfware already.

The only thing I lack is some similar pda/handheld GPS combination for IFR.
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