[Elecraft] IC-7300 video - things to come

[Don Wilhelm]

As far as I know, touch-screens cannot be easily be navigated by 
unsighted operators.
How would touch-screens be implemented in keeping with Elecraft's 
promise to allow handicapped operators full access to the operation of 
the Elecraft line of products?

73,
Don W3FPR

On 3/29/2016 8:50 PM, Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft wrote:
> As a private pilot I fly with a Garmin GTN750 touch-screen GPS NAV/COM 
> in a Cessna 182. Its powerful and quite intuitive to use, even in 
> turbulence. (They included ridges along the four screen sides when 
> needed to steady your hand.) It actually reduces the amount pilot load 
> and time spent looking inside the cockpit when used properly - Though 
> you can certainly abuse it dangerously if you treat it like a video 
> game and forget to look outside the cockpit..   I wouldn't go any 
> other way now.   (And I came from a full-on knobs based flight 
> environment prior to that.)
>