There are a few things that can be done to make the most of the PDA
displays:

- try to orient the display so it is nearly vertical, in order to
minimise reflections from the sky/sun.

- use an anti-glare screen protector.  In my experience, glare is a
bigger problem than brightness

- opt for high contrast, black on white schemes.  Viewing terrain
in-flight is very difficult.

- avoid using polarised sunglasses

- become familiar with whatever program you are using while on the
ground, so in flight your eyes don't have to hunt the display to find
the information you need.


On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 13:33, Penedo wrote:
> On 11/29/05, Jim Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Essentially all of these devices suffer from being difficult to read in
> > sunlight . . . especially when we wear sunglasses . . .
> 
> So what do people do about this?  Taking off the sunglasses to read the
> display is not an option.
> Do you just get something to shade it? Do these programs have an option
> to turn to black-and-white display for better contrast or what?
> 
> BTW - Thanks for the hardware recommandations.
> 
> (My lost Lowrence Airmap 100 was quite readable under any conditions,
> I suppose it helped that it was plain black-and-white display).
> 
> --P
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