Re: embedded aviation computers.

["D.F.S." <dfs@xmission.com>]

I'll just try to combine these and save some bandwidth.

> Todd Shirey:

> Is there a web site for the displays ?

www.eio.com
www.computerchopper.com

The VGA displays with the controllers and buttons, no longer 
have the buttons. 
The sold out of the units with the frame that had buttons.
They now only have the same units without the frame.

In the end, it would be more trouble to build the captive
button caps in the face plate then to just install complete
push-buttons anyway.

in any event, ignore the frame and buttins in the picture, 
but in my case, presume a similar scheme built into the case.



> By the way...where do I send my share for the FAA data ?
John Peterson <jaypee@netcom.com> bought it.
Maybe he can give us the info, unless he doesn't WANT cash.


> From Larry Walls:

> Where do you see this computer going?  Is it going to be 
> your flight management system (engine instruments, etc.)?

As far as I can legally get away with, with portable and
not legally installed electronics.

Both the loran and GPS I'm getting installed have serial
interface ports. I have hundreds of Trimble OEM GPS rcvr
modules. A cool moving map would be nice.
Part of the "Problem" in a way is the Garmin GPS 155XL I'm
getting installed has many of the features I wanted to
build into such a system, now many are not as big of an 
issue anymore.

Off The top of my head...
A system to calculate winds-aloft, I figure flying a complete
2 minute turn and processing the output from the GPS should do 
it. Granted, the garmin can do it, but it is based on user
input heading and indicated speeds and altitudes.

I think I could get a better solution another way.

A good flight planning and waypoint generation system, which
could integrate with my GPS, and run independently on the
moving map within the system in addition or in place of the 
GPS for other people.

My GPS will accept a user generated flight plan and waypoints.
I'd like the added flexibility of good flight planning in the 
cockpit and uploading from a laptop as well.
Something that could connect to duats from home, download all
the info including the 20-30 pages of weather and NOTAMS and 
display it in a nice format in flight.
Something that will drive a standard small portable printer,
I don't want to trust this system that much.

Flight parameter logging 100% of the time in the background.

A system I could go back to and see how well an approach was 
flown.
Exactly where did we see that glacier on the trip 2 
years ago?
Exactly how well was the plane performing on that trip to 
florida before we installed STC "X"?

If you included all the parameters, including alt, temp, 
RPM, MAP, position, time, weight and loading, after a 
while you could generate and extremely accurate profile
of how your plane would perform in any given situation.

Something like, Either loading is Legal, but if we put 
X here, and moved X there, the CG would move here, and 
get us an additional 3 kts...

Integration with the intercom system.
I need to build a digital intercom system to get all the 
features I'm looking for, and not spend $1,000.00

The sound card in my system could record all ATC communication
and allow a GUI interface to play them back, something as simple 
as:
  Xmissions:    XX     X   XXXX   x    XX    x   XXX  XX
Seconds ago: 1   5    10   15   20   25   30   35  40+++ Scroll ->
 
It could play individual segments, and it would seem simple to
find the one you are after, it would stomp all over the 23 seconds
some systems will save IF you push record BEFORE whatever you
want to save, that is the tricky part.

Audio prompts, messages and warnings would be great.
Voice recognition as well as soon as or if, it becomes
reasonable to implement.


As close as it is to treason in this group, and as much as I hate
to run MS-anything, Jeppesen has all the approach charts on CD
on a subscription basis just like the paper ones.
It only runs under windows, the good thing is it supports windows
3.1, and as such maybe I can get it to run under linux.

That system would need to run a decent portable printer.
the only problem, so far is the good portable printers will kill you
in consumables, as in ~50 Cents/page. I'm still looking for the answer
to that.

That is a sample of ideas, I could go on for hours, but you get
the idea, and I'm sure others have some killer uses I have not
even considered yet.

Marc

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