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Re: DR plotting techniques
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Oct 17, 07:23 -0700
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Oct 17, 07:23 -0700
On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 07:00 AM, Axel Vis wrote: > I do not trust the software that you need to 'read' e-charts. From my > own > experience: The software crashed with very nasty error messages on a > rather crucial point of my trip. Aha! I see what you mean, and I agree with you. I bought and used Nobeltec's Visual Navigator on a PC laptop for a year or two. It had some neat features, but between it, serial ports, the GPS, and Windows, it really had a ton of quirks. I have stopped using this system for navigation. Instead I bought charts on a chip for the Garmin GPS and just use the GPS -- with no more crashes! I now use a Macintosh laptop with the GPS to download/upload waypoints and track logs. It all works quite nicely. Oops -- that was electronic navigation I was talking about! Sorry about that! ;-) Dan
