Re: Laptop or GPS?

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Check this out. It's a mix between your laptop and GPS. Gives you the
mobility of a palmpilot and the moving map GPS. Just think, when you land
at a destination you could have a streets program loaded and then drive
right to your destination.

Curtis

"kitepilot" <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote in message
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> I want a GPS. No explanations needed there. Then, I came across of
> http://teletype.com/aopa/, which seems to be some sort of antenna that
> I attach to a laptop and, in combination with some software, PRESTO!,
> instant GPS! :)
>
> On the pro side, I kindda like the idea of the laptop on board because
> it can assume many roles, one of them becoming an interactive log book
> for purposes yet to be found, but unquestionable convenient.
>
> On the minus side, that clunky, heavy, bulky laptop in the front seat
> may become annoying sometimes. From my experience, anything beyond a
> local flight will become a clean up project upon landing. Maybe one
> single piece of junk lying around is not that bad and, when flying with
> someone in the copilot seat, they can (WILL!) hold on to it.
>
> The price of the antenna, software, decent PC power seems to be
> equivalent to that of a high end Garmin and, then again, the Garmin
> doesn’t get all the perks of the laptop (like playing solitary when
> stuck in an airport for IMC... :)
>
> Am I overlooking anything? Is there something wrong in this setting
> that will ultimately lead me to dump the plane in the ocean and move to
> a cabin in Montana to become a Software Developer?
>
> Well, I already AM a Software Developer, so it doesn’t get any worse
> than that, but it also means some computer knowledge which will
> probably allow me to find more and more uses to this toy combination.
>
> Any one out there using this aberration?
> Any ideas?
> Thanks!
> Enrique A. Troconis
> http://www.kitepilot.com/
>
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