Hmmm.... I see the device is no longer advertised by Wingsandwheels, Glider Guider or Vertica Airsports.

Mike



At 09:50 AM 4/3/2016, you wrote:
Sounds like the Glider Guider/V2/Avier device.

Mine runs Windows Mobile 6 and runs XCSoar. The screen is highly sunlight readable and has an anti glare coating.

Now can anyone figure out how to load Android or Linux on it to take advantage of later XCSoar implementations?

As for Greg's original question, it depends what sort of motorglider we are talking about. If it is a travelling type that is going to operate in and around controlled airspace and being used as a cross country point to point machine you really need to run OzRunways or AvPlan on an iPad mini. There is an Android version of the latter but it is pretty crippled as yet. Good as a backup on an Android phone though.

Interesting about the Kobo. This exact cycle was gone through nearly 20 years ago when the first PDA's came out. They had grey scale screens which were transflective and highly visible in bright sunlight(the brighter the better). Then they went colour and became nearly useless. Screen technology has improved since then but the colour feature looks pretty and is a nice eye magnet with lots of background clutter to get in the way without doing much for situational awareness. Bad design that failed to actually ask which problem was being solved (this is a common problem in many areas of life - there are few real problems which can't be made worse by imposing solutions for the wrong problem - see much of aviation regulation).

Mike




At 07:39 AM 4/3/2016, you wrote:
Greg,

Not a tablet, but Malcolm Crampton (Tasman Instruments) has a generic 5 inch pda which has a good bright screnn, runs LK8000 (free) and is good value for money.

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Greg Wilson <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote: Can anyone recommend a bright (daylight) readable tablet for use as nav device in a motor-glider?




---- On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 23:06:13 +1100 Mark Fisher<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote ----
Jezuz...... Because they do!
Checkout some antenna theory.

On Monday, 28 March 2016, Peter Champness <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
Why is that?
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Richard Frawley <[email protected]> wrote:
they point the wrong way to get good reception. not optimal.


On 28 Mar 2016, at 7:42 PM, Peter Champness <[email protected]> wrote:

maybe
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Adam Woolley <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello all,
Has anyone got a spare (or two) of the old canopy mounted Flarm antennas that they'd be willing to part ways with?

SeeYou,
WPP

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