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To: IrishCatholic
We've already had similar technology onboard our Gulfstream for a while now.

CMA-1100 Electronic Flight Bags (EFB's) I've been using these for a few years now and love'em. They do performance calculations, display checklists, moving map, weather applications, video display and wireless communications.


11 posted on 02/16/2011 6:19:45 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Thanks for the picture. That is way cool. Is that what you fly? Are you on the high end of private aviation? So what are they talking about here? Something for the lower price range? Something a weekend pilot could use?


12 posted on 02/16/2011 6:46:09 PM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
A "killer app" is defined as an application (or more than one competing application) that, all by itself, justifies the purchase of the device. Electric pencil, VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, Pagemaker, Final Cut all were worth the price of the systems they ran on.

Jeppesen looks like a killer app for the iPad (in aviation; other fields have their own). The iPad hardware is about 1/5 the cost of the dedicated EFB systems I could find in a quick Google, and they're a lot more versatile when you exit the cockpit.

All you need is one of these:


14 posted on 02/16/2011 10:30:50 PM PST by ReignOfError
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Performance calculations? Did Gulfstream quit putting perf computers on their airplanes?


17 posted on 02/17/2011 10:36:46 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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