Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yoke mounted PDA

2010-04-13 Thread George Patterson
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Victhor victhor.fos...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm, AFAIK we couldn't get things like moving map displays anyway... and some of those GPSes have turn-by-turn navigation for use with cars, which is kinda cool, as they're pretty expensive :0) With the better car GPS

[Flightgear-devel] Yoke mounted PDA

2010-04-12 Thread Alex Perry
Has anyone made a 3D model of a PDA that attaches nicely to the existing yoke XML files? I'm thinking of portrait orientation with the form factor of an iPhone, android phone, etc, etc. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yoke mounted PDA

2010-04-12 Thread Victhor
I made an iPad that looks pretty OK, but it used images from the Apple website as textures, so not completely GPL :) Has anyone made a 3D model of a PDA that attaches nicely to the existing yoke XML files? I'm thinking of portrait orientation with the form factor of an iPhone, android phone,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yoke mounted PDA

2010-04-12 Thread David Megginson
Cool, but wouldn't it make sense to support common portable aviation GPS's first? As far as smartphone-type-things go, it's hard to get any wireless coverage in the air (they started blocking upward transmission about 3-4 years ago), and the iPad is so big it would block most of the primary

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yoke mounted PDA

2010-04-12 Thread Victhor
Hmmm, AFAIK we couldn't get things like moving map displays anyway... and some of those GPSes have turn-by-turn navigation for use with cars, which is kinda cool, as they're pretty expensive :0) Cool, but wouldn't it make sense to support common portable aviation GPS's first? As far as