"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
After working the 496 for a few flights, with all of its bizarre
hiccups (I.E.: The screen completely disappears when you slew the
cursor across the screen) and horrible graphics (displayed on a
postage-stamp-sized screen), his priceless comment was:

"If Microsoft built the X-Box the way Garmin built the 496, they'd
have sold about five of them..."

And if Garmin was as reliable as Microsoft, the majority of the pilot
population would be dead right now! :~}


And you know what? He's absolutely right. We pilots were so
desperate for in-cockpit weather that we willingly paid $3000 (!) for
a $250 dollar unit that performs worse than a video game.

Well, Jay, why don't you lug a X-Box and a 27" TV around with you in the
cockpit? :~)

{titter}