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Garmin Mobile PC

Garmin Mobile PC 010-11018-00 Maps & GPS Applications

Add full-featured navigation to your laptop or ultra-mobile PC with Garmin's Mobile PC software. Packed with preloaded maps, millions of destinations, and full GPS navigation capabilities, Garmin Mobile PC turns your laptop into a powerful street navigator.

The software's intuitive interface delivers easy-to-follow turn-by-turn directions .
The software features an intuitive interface that greets you with two simple options: Where to? and View Maps. With Garmin Mobile PC, you can easily look up addresses and services and get turn-by-turn directions, with spoken exits and street names (English only) to guide you to your destination. The software also automatically corrects your route if you stray off course. You can even upload custom points of interest, such as safety cameras, or conveniently navigate to people's homes or businesses on your Outlook Contacts list.
No one likes to worry while traveling, which is why Garmin Mobile PC includes advanced navigational features to take the guesswork out. With route planning, you can save routes, specific via points, and preview simulated turns on your computer. In addition, Garmin Mobile PC automatically sorts multiple destinations to provide an efficient route for errands, deliveries, or sales calls. And you can see where you've already been on the map thanks to the trip computer, which automatically records trip data, and the trip log, which provides an electronic crumb trail. The software even makes it easy to avoid certain roads and areas.
Garmin Mobile PC also makes a great companion for business travel, with options for checking the weather, gas prices, flight status, and hotel information. The software makes it easy to get the weather forecast for your current location or anywhere else in the world. The software's hotels.com compatibility lets you view hotel rates, ratings, and amenities information with the click of a button, or check the status of your flight along with departure and arrival information. These free, real-time services from Garmin Online put essential travel information at your fingertips.
Garmin Mobile PC is available with or without a GPS sensor depending on your laptop configuration.
Specifications

High-sensitivity receiver: Yes
PDA-compatible: No
Smartphone compatible: No
Offboard navigation: No
Navigation software: Yes
Street maps: Yes, including points of interest
Waypoints/favorites/locations: 1,000
Routes: 50
Voice prompts: Yes
Speaks street names: Yes (English only)
3D map view: Yes
Auto sort multiple destinations: Yes
Auto reroute: Yes
Choice of route setup: Yes
Route avoidance: Yes
Bluetooth wireless technology: No
Garmin Online or Dynamic Content services compatible: Yes (traffic excluded)
PeerPoints: No
About Garmin
What began as a brainstorming session of a handful of engineers around a card table in 1989 has evolved into a worldwide collaborative effort of thousands of colleagues. Garmin's goal now, as it was then, remains simple: To create navigation and communication devices that can enrich customers' lives. The company's innovative products span various areas of interest, including automotive, aviation, marine, fitness, outdoor recreation, and wireless applications.

Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk

Mission
The RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system with an integrated sensor suite that provides intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or ISR, capability worldwide. Global Hawk's mission is to provide a broad spectrum of ISR collection capability to support joint combatant forces in worldwide peacetime, contingency and wartime operations. The Global Hawk complements manned and space reconnaissance systems by providing near-real-time coverage using imagery intelligence or IMINT, sensors.

Features
Global Hawk offers a wide variety of employment options. The Global Hawk system consists of the RQ-4 aircraft with an integrated sensor suite, launch and recovery element, or LRE, mission control element, or MCE, sensors, communication equipment mission planning equipment, support element and trained personnel. The IMINT sensors include synthetic aperture radar, electro-optical and medium-wave infrared sensors. The Global Hawk will eventually carry the airborne signals intelligence payload. One version of Global Hawk will carry the Radar Technology Insertion Program active electronically scanned array radar.

The LRE, located at the aircraft base with the aircraft, launches the aircraft until handoff to the MCE contains functions required to launch, recover and operate an aircraft while en route to or from the target area. The LRE contains one pilot station providing the capability to operate one aircraft with no sensor operations.

The MCE controls the Global Hawk for the bulk of the ISR mission. Like the LRE, the MCE is manned by one pilot, but adds a sensor operator to the crew. Command and control data links enable complete dynamic control of the mission aircraft. The pilot workstations in the MCE and LRE are the control and display interface (cockpit) providing aircraft health and status, sensors status and a means to alter the navigational track of the aircraft. From this station, the pilot communicates with outside entities to coordinate the mission (air traffic control, airborne controllers, ground controllers, other ISR assets).

The sensor operator workstation provides capability to dynamically update the collection plan in real time, initiate sensor calibration, and monitor sensor status. The sensor operator also assists the exploitation node with image quality control, target deck prioritization and scene tracking to ensure fluid operations.

The system offers a wide variety of employment options. The long range and endurance allow tremendous flexibility in meeting mission requirements.

Background
Global Hawk began as an Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration in 1995. The system was determined to have military utility and provide warfighters with an evolutionary high-altitude, long-endurance ISR capability. While still a developmental system, the Global Hawk deployed operationally to support the global war on terrorism in November 2001. The Global Hawk UAS provides near-continuous all-weather, day/night, wide area surveillance and will eventually replace the U-2.

In the RQ-4 name, the "R" is the Department of Defense designation for reconnaissance and "Q" means unmanned aircraft system. The "4" refers to the series of purpose-built remotely piloted aircraft systems.

The Global Hawk is operated by the 12th Reconnaissance Squadron. The 1st RS provides formal training; both squadrons are located at Beale Air Force Base, Calif.

General Characteristics:

Primary function: High-altitude, long-endurance ISR

Contractor: Northrop Grumman (Prime), Raytheon, L3 Comm

Power Plant: Rolls Royce-North American AE 3007H turbofan

Thrust: 7,600 pounds

Wingspan: RQ-4A 116 feet (35.3 meters); RQ-4B 130.9 feet (39.8 meters)

Length: RQ-4A 44 feet (13.4 meters); RQ-4B, 47.6 feet (14.5 meters)

Height: RQ-4A 15.2 (4.6 meters); RQ-4B, 15.3 feet (4.7 meters)

Weight: RQ-4A, 11,350 pounds (5,148 kilograms); RQ-4B, 14,950 pounds (6,781 kilograms)

Maximum takeoff weight: RQ-4A, 26,750 pounds (12,133 kilograms ); RQ-4B, 32,250 pounds (14628 kilograms)

Fuel Capacity: RQ-4A, 15,400 pounds (6,985 kilograms); RQ-4B, 17,300 pounds (7847 kilograms)

Payload: RQ-4A, 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms); RQ-4B, 3,000 pounds (1,360 kilograms)

Speed: RQ-4A, 340 knots (391 mph); RQ-4B, 310 knots (357 mph)

Range: RQ-4A, 9,500 nautical miles; RQ-4B, 8,700 nautical miles

Ceiling: 60,000 feet (18,288 meters)

Armament: None

Crew (remote): Three (LRE pilot, MCE pilot and sensor operator)

Unit Cost: RQ-4A, $37.6 million; RQ-4B, $55-$81 million

Initial operating capability: fiscal 2012 (multi-aircraft control capability)

Inventory: Active force, RQ-4A: 7; RQ-4B: 3

Our cabin crew are using the latest iPad model to bring a new dimension to customer service in the air.

The iPads enable cabin crew to have prior awareness of customer preferences and a greater understanding of each customer’s previous travel arrangements, allowing them to offer a truly bespoke, personalised service.

The iPad lets crew quickly identify where each customer is seated, who they are travelling with, their Executive Club status and any special meal requests. It gives cabin crew a whole library of information at their fingertips including timetables, safety manuals and customer service updates. It also means any issues can be logged with ground-based colleagues around the network prior to departure so solutions can be delivered while the flight is airborne.

When all the passengers have boarded and just before the doors are shut, cabin crew are currently handed a long scroll of paper, listing up to 337 customers. With the new iPads cabin crew will simply refresh their screen when the doors have closed through wireless 3G networks and they will have a complete list of passengers on board.

The iPad is currently being trialled with 100 cabin crew with the aim to roll it out to all senior crew members across the airline in the coming months.

The new TuneUp Utilities helps you get the most out of your PC. That's because the highly successful tuning suite doesn't just optimize Windows, it also provides peak performance for games and programs. And with more than 30 intuitive tools, users can be sure of increased performance and top speed, solutions to a large number of PC problems, greater system reliability, optimal maintenance, recovered disk space, and a fresh looking Windows interface. Benefits: the user is actively working with. Games flow smoother thanks to increased frames per second. 1-Click Maintenance and Automatic Maintenance for all-around maintenance of your PC. Windows registry cleaning that is intensive yet safe. Live Optimization to ensure your programs start up and react at top speed. System Requirements: Windows XP SP2/Vista/7. Processor with at least 300 MHz. 256 MB RAM. Screen resolution at least 1024 x 600 pixels.