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Old 25th Aug 2010, 08:27
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IO540
 
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The Q is what exactly you are trying to achieve.

Pre-flight, the job is well defined: route planning, notams, weather, airport contacting for PPR/PNR/etc.

This is easily done with a very common item known as a "laptop" You can get them from £100 to £2000, and a normal windoze one will run everything needed including - at the top of the GA food chain - Jeppesen stuff.

Airborne, people look for different things. A VFR pilot might want to run a decent GPS moving map (something better than you can buy, or something which can run downloaded/"shared" maps ). An IFR pilot might wanto to see approach plates. Both might want to get weather data, if it is a long flight.

The platform for this is less clear, largely due to a near total lack of sunlight readable hardware which is light, thin, etc. A lot of people are looking at solutions but most of them deliver only a part of the job, so one would end up with a pile of gadgets, which need charging, etc.
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