I’m looking to go through my various module manuals more in depth, but I’m running into the issue of HOW?
I don’t know about you, but sitting at a desk reading a giant PDF on a PC monitor is neither comfortable for me nor conducive to learning well.
I have a Kindle Fire and I’ve been trying to email them to it so I can read them there. I can also have it open on the desk or in my lap while in DCS itself, like the paper manuals of yore and ye olde flighte sims. The trouble is some of these are 10’s of MB’s in size and email is not working due to various limits.
How have you been able to most readily peruse these manuals? Any luck with direct USB connect to a tablet to copy them over? Alternate methods? Are some email services more lax when it comes to max file size than others?
This is what I do when proofreading my novels, I just send them via USB to my phone. I’d think any tablet would work the same way, provided you have the storage space.
That’s what I am going to be doing as soon as I have some disposable income and all other more pressing wants taken care of. Should come to about 30 to 40 bucks a pop with a ring binder etc.
At least here in the US, any of the big office supply places would be a good choice for printing. I used to run 200-300 pages docs, coil bound, with heavy plastic covers, B&W only, for about $8.
Also all the kindle series should allow for direct USB transfer to the HD for reading. They should all display a PDF as well. I still have my ancient Kindle Keyboard, and while a PDF isn’t optimal (you usually end up with the page being a bit wider than the Kindle screen) it still works just fine.
I have a Kindle Fire as well, and have downloaded the Chuck’s Guides and manuals to the local hard drive for the planes I fly most. Problem being, you have to stay on top of manually updating any time there’s a newer revision. Also, the Google Drive app for Kindle is hot garbage, so sign in via the web browser and access files that way.
If I want to have it ready during flight I actually use my phone (Samsung Galaxy S9)
I have very good eyes so the size is not a problem (And yeah that’s an invitation for a “that’s what she said” joke I guess).
Other than that I do what I am used to do, which is just reading the PDF on my PC.
Sometimes I hang around on the couch and use my Notebook.
My wife’s tablet would also be suitable, I sometimes used it in the past. In that case I just put the PDF on my NAS and get it by WiFi.
I just put them on Dropbox in a DCS manuals folder, and read them on my Samsung Note 10.1 using the basic Adobe Acrobat reader app.
As tempting as it is to print them on actual physical paper, I find that they get updated so often that it’s simply not practical to do so.
Well that, and I have sort of gotten used to reading technical manuals on a crappy 13" Toughbook screen by now, as that is how we get the maintenance manuals for the Seahawk. Oh how I wish we could get issued a tablet insted, but probably not happening anytime soon.
I priced up on a whim a few weeks ago to have @Sryan’s f15c guide, chucks guide to the harrier and the natops manuals I have for the tomcat and harriers and the price in ring binder form for all of them was over £250!! PLUS DELIVERY! I can get a brand new tablet for that! So I bought a big sd card and just use wifey’s galaxy tab now
I also work my way through PDF’s on either the desktop or the laptop. What I usually do is make an extra copy and save it under a different name. That way I can open it twice and have them side by side. On one copy I have the relevant diagram and on the other the actual text. I found that I can learn new cockpits much faster this way. Since I spend considerable time with the diagram, I also feel at home much faster in the new pit.
Moonreader Pro on my Samsung tablet. It can directly connect to Google drive. I put whatever manuals I want into Google drive and open them in Moonreader. Moonreader also has way more customizations than.Adobe reader for things like zoom, page flip, landscape, and so on. Easy.
