Friday, February 10, 2006
The Palm in the world of aviation
It is no secret that Palm may become indispensable tools of a professional to do their daily work. There are many areas where their applications are endless. The first of which I speak is to aviation. Many pilots have a Palm as inseparable from the path they plan to continue until they complete the flight. Gathering all the applications that they can be useful, we find the page Palmflying.com.
The collection of applications that are really wide, shows the fruitful relationship that has occurred for years between the Palm and piloting. You can try to sort all that software into categories. Still, each of them there are hundreds of programs. He commented on each of them the best applications on the basis of Publishers Palmflying.com:
- Calculators: allow easily make all kinds of specialized calculations. Niborex E6-B is recommended for his versatility, while such Yauco specializes in converting units, or WinterOPS, allowing decode summaries map, or perform calculations related wind.
- Newspapers: the Palm is the ideal tool to keep track of flight, with all the details and incidents. Airline Pilot-s Daily Log is recommended for this task.
- Navigation: long before the comenzásemos to use in our cars, the pilots have made good use of GPS. The best GPS navigator is elected AeroPalm GPS. Although there are other good choices as Cetus GPS or Flight Buddy.
- Planning: Before you start a flight, everything must be correctly calculated and prepared. For the tasks of planning, there are many utilities, which have stressed 1st officio. Another interesting option that runs on PalmOS is CoPilot.
- Reference: a pilot has to carry a lot of information in the head. So you do not have to rely on his memory, and avoid carrying a bulky docuemntación, we have lots of information converted into electronic format to be able to consult at any time at the Palm. Airline Websites encapsulates the identification codes of individual company s air APCodes does the same, but with the public and international airports, and so many others.
- Training: for those who are learning. Aeronautical Terms teaches us the meaning of all terms of the jargon of aviation. Airplanes is a comprehensive document with descriptions of the different models of aircraft in aviation history, and so on.
- And other hardware: catergoría are reflected in this program that did not correspond to any of the other, as 2red, which changes the colors of our Palm applications on a black background with red, very fit for when we travel at night.
- Forecast: The weather forecast is crucial to plan a trip by plane. In this section we find any programs that allow us access to various online services of this type. For example AccuWeather Mobile allows us to access the forecasts published on Accuweather.com.
AeroPalm includes many features into a single program
This comprehensive site not only programs. He also compiled an interesting collection of electronic books related to the theme of aviation. We may get in touch with more people interested in these subjects in their forum. And on the home page have a search engine where you can find all kinds of information related to aviation, as well as a list of the latest news and updates on the software collected.
In conclusion, as an example of using a Palm that gives you a pilot, we have this excellent article published in PDAExpertos. Really enlightening.
By: Mark Gonzalez Troyes in Palm Analysis
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Very good article but site to which they mention is inaccessible.
Since my PC can access without problems, it may be your connection problem, try a few hours.