>Thomas in Germany enquired about further information on Skyforce's new colour
>mapper. Sorry for the delay in responding.
>
>Skyforce do have a web page on www.indus.co.uk/skyforce which may be worth
>checking out. Apparantly there is a active demo but whether it has been updated
>with the latest product I am not sure.
>
>Without is sounding too much like a free ad the features and benefits claimed
>are:
>
>Ultra high definition TFT colour LCD display (lovely)
>
>Front loading PCMIA Datacards which will contain Jeppesen databases, geographic
>features and the operating system (makes for easy machine upgrades)
>
>Joystick controlled screen pointer (a doddle for offline route planning)
>
>Screen customisation which allows normal landscape or portrait format (nice if
>you are squeezed for space or want to set up the screen display to suit your
>own tastes)
>
>Triple parallel processing, Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring, WAAS and
>differential ready receiver. (basically lots of bells and whistles to make
>certain it doesn't start telling you garbage especially one day when GPS
>approaches become possible)
>
>Input and Output options for all industry standard protocols to allow
>autopilot
>and EFIS interfacing. (it works with many other bits of avionic hardware)
>
>Bracketed comments my "translations" into user speak.
>
>All this in a box 6.25" wide x 4" high x 6.9" deep. Also watch out in the press
>for the next product announcement due shortly.
>--
>Graham Edward Laucht
>Birmingham UK
Hmmm, I'll have one of their panel mounts and one of their...err to be
announced things too...
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