"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
Now that my son is taking flight lessons, I'm letting him fly in
(Read: Mary is relinquishing) the front seat more often. This plants
him squarely in front of our panel-docked Garmin 496, the latest-and-
greatest portable GPS from Garmin.

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His comments are on the money.

Of course the problems a
certification and development cost.
Real Estate space ( how big/bulky do you want you hand held) (How much panel
space are you wanting to give up)
I'd like to see a way to display the output on a larger yoke mounted
display.
The user interface is terrible on all GPS units I've seen or read about.
And ,of course, are the units sellin? They are then why change a good thing?