I have almost lost all hope about Garmin's aviation "handhelds" - I love
their products but the Lowrance 500 is calling my name. (I owned a GPS
III Plus and a 195, for a while.) Garmin is seeming to take a geologic
age to update the GPS III Pilot into something more desireable....

Here is what I want Garmin to do:

Make a unit that has the same (or thinner) form factor as the GPS III
Pilot, but with a COLOR, higher resolution, backlit color display.
Maintain or improve the battery life. Provide a large amount of RAM in
which I can load RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE ($50 for my area - e.g.
California) terrestrial (highway/road/street) data. ("Go to/Turn Here"
instructions would be nice but this is IMO a luxury.) Provide a
rechargeable battery (preferably NiMh), an NMEA-capable USB data cable,
and perhaps a yoke mounting device of some kind, as Lowrance did with my
Airmap 100. Include the 195's pseudo-IFR approach capability. Keep it
under $600.

I'd also like to download TFR info from Jepp Flitestar, but I know
that's a stretch...

Garmin: make it, and I will buy it.

Dave Blevins

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:27:31 -0800, R. Hubbell
wrote:



Any prognosticators out there that know what's next from Garmin in
the handheld category? I like the size of the Airmap 1000 but I also
like the company, Garmin, a little better.



R. Hubbell