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Looking4Lower · August 25th, 2004, 23:16

I use a PDA regularly for flight-planning and W/B. There is a super program that does both exceptionally well for GA use - it's called CoPilot and you can find it on palmflying.com (it's free). I can't say enough about this little program- it's perfect.

You can customize a W/B envelope with loading stations - it makes a W/B situation so quick and easy that you will never have an excuse for being out of the envelope! The flight planner is easy to use, too - you can download a database of airports, navaids and waypoints that can be used to build flightplans. Just plug in the points, plug in your winds and go. You can customize aircraft performance profiles too (just use the numbers from your POH).

You can have a complete set of W/B and flightplan data ready for a trip in about 2 minutes - and it's all very accurate based on my experience.

I run this program on an old Palm VIIX that I bought on ebay for $28.

Stuff I also have in the palm, but don't use too often: a web browser and a telnet program that I can use to dial the 1-800 DUATS number to get text weather.

August 25th, 2004, 23:16	#6
Looking4Lower Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: On your TCAS Posts: 539	Re: PDA\'s in the cockpit. I use a PDA regularly for flight-planning and W/B. There is a super program that does both exceptionally well for GA use - it's called CoPilot and you can find it on palmflying.com (it's free). I can't say enough about this little program- it's perfect. You can customize a W/B envelope with loading stations - it makes a W/B situation so quick and easy that you will never have an excuse for being out of the envelope! The flight planner is easy to use, too - you can download a database of airports, navaids and waypoints that can be used to build flightplans. Just plug in the points, plug in your winds and go. You can customize aircraft performance profiles too (just use the numbers from your POH). You can have a complete set of W/B and flightplan data ready for a trip in about 2 minutes - and it's all very accurate based on my experience. I run this program on an old Palm VIIX that I bought on ebay for $28. Stuff I also have in the palm, but don't use too often: a web browser and a telnet program that I can use to dial the 1-800 DUATS number to get text weather.