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[ChrisD]

UMPCs will be great for pilots


Not being a pilot, I actually had no idea about this stuff until he told me - its good to see how these will be useful for a specific segment that is currently not served well by technology.

Craig writes:

It's a hot form factor for use in the cockpit. Laptops and traditional
tablets are too big. Something about the size of a paperback or even a
hard-cover book is better. There's a lot of software for displaying all the
charts that we normally have to carry on paper. Instead of taking a couple
dozen folding paper maps when I fly from here to the coast I just load up
the hard drive. All the maps are georeferenced to GPS so if you have a
portable GPS you can see your position all all the maps.  (Source: Darryl on Mobility, GeekZone)

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