Hi every one.

Please PLEASE Help me.

i have a 2 in 1 laptop and it has a location sensor. im sure of it and tried it with maps with wifi off. its acer aspire 10 sw5-012


when i go to skydeamon i cant use GPS. what should i put in the COM Port ???


i tried everything. please please help





Thank you very much

I doubt this computer has a GPS built in. I am also not sure whether it has Bluetooth. You can use the micro USB port to connect an external GPS, though.

It Has a GPS.
I emulated android and I could use the android version of the program with GPS.

So again I verify it has a Huawei GPS chipest

And it has Bluetooth too!

SkyDemon for PC only has quite rudimentary navigation capabilities and currently requires a GPS attached to a standard COM port. Newer tablets may not have such a GPS, so may require a piece of additional software to emulate that. I believe such software has been recommended before on this forum but I can't remember personally what it was.

Really SkyDemon for iOS and Android are our full mobile navigation software.

You should use Centrafuse localizer. It simulates the com port you want. I don't understand that Skydemon was not adapted to the Windows devices for navigating. I use a lenovo tablet, now i buyed a iPad ro use Skydemon. Its a horrible device. Now i try with Android, it's better, but  i hope really thei adapt the programm for Win devices soon.

I agree. iPads are poor in the cockpit. I have used all types including minis and retina. Hopeless. Reflective screens that perform poorly in any daylight, leave alone in direct sun. Added to which they shut down when hot. This happened to me at a very inconvenient moment when I really needed Skydemon.

I won't be using iPads in the cockpit in future. They are a poor option, until Apple releases a sunlight readable, polarised screen version that does not overheat.

Tim, I hope you continue to develop the windows version in the meantime. When I looked at the comparison table, there didn't seem to be any deficiencies in the comparison of windows and iOS versions. My new device, which runs on windows, whilst early days is infinitely better than than an iPad in the cockpit.

I think the far majority of the people use SD with an iPad. The readability is fine as long as you don't wear polarized sunglasses. The combination of polarized sunglasses and iPad in portrait mode blacks out the screen because the iPad IS polarizes. But hey you should not wear polarized glasses in the cockpit anyway. I use an iPad air2 and had flights up to 2 hours and no problem with overheating at all.

Regards, Tom

Must have a different cockpit from mine. Any light on the iPad and it and it is useless. They do overheat and switch off - you have been lucky. It will get you one day. I was referring to a polarised screen for the device which is a feature of sunlight readable display screens, not sunglasses. SD is by far the best VFR software and I have flown with iPads for 600 hours and tried every mounting option before concluding there are better options if I'm to carry on with SD. I just hope the development concentrates on iOS devices because until and unless the devices are improved it is a culdisac.

I meant to say - does not just concentrate on iOS devices