"Jonathan Goodish" wrote in message

I will be very interested to
hear user reports once they start coming in, but until then, I'd rather
not try to sell a product that hasn't shipped yet.

That is an excellent point. It could well be that when it arrives the smart
antenna is too big to be practical or that the screen is to small to view
the wealth of available information.

On the other hand, Garmin used portable GPS receivers have always held their
value well on the used market. A great feature of portable avionics is that
if you do not like them there is no cost to uninstall them from your
airplane. The risk is not too great to buy a 396 and then sell it used on
Ebay if you do not like it; availability will probably be so tight initially
that the economic risk to doing so will be minimal.

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Richard Kaplan

www.flyimc.com