Disclaimer (gotta say it): These tools do not have formal approval from ours, or any other company to be deployed on a company-issued device. Your company may have an "official" policy prohibiting such use. In the FOM that we use, the policy in section P1.16.6 explicitly prohibits downloading applications such as these to a company device. So "on the record" I make these available for you to install on your personal BlackBerry. That said, I've tested them on BlackBerry models 7290 & 8700, and am satisfied that they won't interfere with any other function of the device. They should theoretically work on other BlackBerry models as well, although I haven't tested it so I can't promise anything. They will not work on other (non-BlackBerry) PDA's or mobile platforms.
IMPORTANT: These applications will only run on a BB device running version 4.1 of the BB OS or later. Do not attempt to install on a device running v4.0 or earlier - you will regret it!! (The OS version can be found in "Options / About" on your BlackBerry.)
Known issue: When you download & install, it may require a reboot on your device. This is a nuisance, but not harmful. I'm looking for a fix and will update if/when I find it.
I fly a Cessna Citation for a little outfit in Columbus Ohio. I'm a recovering Software Engineer, and had some ideas for a couple of things I thought would be handy to have on the BlackBerry when I'm at work. A big part of my motivation for building these was just to play around with BlackBerry software development. (Sort of a "hello world" program that's functional). And since I know a few people who also happen to fly airplanes and carry BlackBerries, I thought there might be a market there, albeit a pretty narrow one. (Although the interpolation calculator does a generic linear interpolation that could be used for anything). But if by some bizarre set of circumstances you might get some use out of these, I'd appreciate hearing any comments, questions, feedback, etc:
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