Food for thought: Amazon Kindle DX for pilots

[Genghis the Engineer]

Originally Posted by dusk2dawn

Great! Anyone with a reference to EASAs requirements for handheld electronic devices?

Genghis, does your Sony-thingy have sort of a flight-mode permitting it to be turned on during the entire flight?

It has no capability for wireless communication, so that shouldn't be a problem.

If anybody gets anal about it, there's a single on-off switch, and it doesn't change anything about the display or mode whilst switched off, and only takes a couple of seconds.

I admit that I wouldn't mind a slightly larger screen, so would quite like to have a play with the new big-screen kindle.

PDFs are usually fine, it has a reasonable greyscale and good resolution: I often use it for reading scentific papers, which can be quite hard on anything. The biggest headache is that the zoom can be a bit clunky, so if the pdfs are A5ish for A5ish content it's fine, but if they're A5 in the middle of a page of A4 then whilst you can read them, it becomes really quite irritating.

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[Test Eagle]

If you are considering an eReader which will work with your Jepp plates, and is apparently easy to update, then you might want to look at the SolidFX FX10 portable electronic chart reader, which uses specialised software to display Jepp e plates.

It is based on the iRex DR1000S digital reader, and has pretty well all the same capabilities, as the other readers. It is slightly bigger, and is quite expensive compared to the other models already mentioned. Presumably, the additional cost is for the specialised software added to handle the Jepp e plates.

[Superpilot]

For anyone with JeppView on their PCs wishing to convert to pdf.... Download a (free) piece of software called CutePDF. Then "print" your charts to the virtual printer object that it creates. The result is: beautiful looking pdf files on your desktop which you can then drag and drop onto your eReaders.

[swish266]

Airbus will get rid of paperwork by the end of 2011. After - companies will keep a master paper copy of their FCOMs only if they wish and at a premium.
This thread is spot on.
I gave my wife a BBook and she already has 100s of books on it. The idea of the "electronic ink" is great for books but not for diagrams. Not enough resolution.
Let's wait and see what Airbus and Boeing will come up with!
For the time being I put up with my iPhone PDF reader...

[Miserlou]

I have all my docs on my iPhone with a searchable PDF Reader which works perfectly.

Approach plates are carried on board so I don't have to break my back with them. The other docs are onboard too but less accessible.