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Old 1st Sep 2011, 09:13
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KRONOS
 
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Was in the States recently and where the pilot shops used to stock kneeboards, you now have a Ipad-kneeboard.

Again North America now has a multitude of Ipad applications for aviation, even big boy's like JetPlan have a licenced app for your runway perfomance, W&B, fuelplanning, crazy stuff.

I use a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook, runs the Jepp NavSuite, with bluetooth GPS, touch screen and the lot, but paid almost $3000 for it two years ago, but the screen brightness is a problem, and about 30% smaller than the Ipad, Fujitsu now launched the Stylistic Q 550, a 3G tablet, that runs windows 7, slightly larger than the Ipad, better resolution, but most importantly it runs the dreaded windows, ( just shy of $1000) that all other flight planning and inflight software was desighned to run on, also multiple programs can run in sync, something the Ipad still stuggle with.
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