"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Damned freakin' gadgets.

Didja figure out a work-around to the magnet-in-the-antenna problem?

That one has got my friend buffaloed, too. It's sending his compass
all over the place.

Nope. I haven't even put the thing in the airplane yet.

Garmin furnishes an extension power/USB cable with the 396, so if I
can't find a good spot on the glare shield, I may be able to come up
with some kind of velcro'd shelf solution near a rear window.

I've been playing with the 396 at home a lot. So far, only two gripes:
the magnet and the battery saver bug. It's really cool to plug a set of
laptop headphones into your portable GPS and listen to some tunes while
you enter flight plans, etc. The 396 will plug directly into my
intercom, so this will gige me a really no-sweat XM Radio installation
(well, for as long as I have this airplane, anyway).

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Right now, I'm kind of preoccupied with the storm. Katrina is expected
to come ashore as a Cat. 5 somewhere between New Orleans and Biloxi.
That would put Mobile on the bad side of possibly the worst storm to hit
the Gulf Coast in recorded history, potentially producing a storm surge
as high as 25 feet in Mobile Bay. BFM elevation is 26 feet MSL.

....and I had a very interested buyer flying in from Oklahoma to look at
the airplane this afternoon, too, dammit.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM