Here is Garmin's reply to the "Lock to Road" feature..........

"In land mode it won't remember the 'off' setting, but the default aviation
setting is 'off' and it will stay off until changed manually. If they are
experiencing something different, their units should be updated with current
operating software and potentially need to be reset. The 196 will not
autoroute in aviation mode, and autorouting is the reason for 'lock to road'.
There should never be a reason that it should turn that feature on in aviation
mode unless you actually go to the proper menu and turn in on manually.

Best Regards,

Andrew Haaven
Aviation Support Specialist
800-800-1020





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I haven't had that problem. I did have it on lock to roads whe I first
got it and it was annoying in that is would kind of jerk the little plane
sideways (changing the picture of where the plane was heading). I turned it
off and have not had the problem again.

I don't know about yours, but mine does definately remember the
preference of lock to roads when changing modes. I don't see why yours would
be different. Maybe you are remembering an older software release.

Even if it does go back to lock to roads, I don't see the big deal. i
would expect them to fix it, but it wouldn't really bother me for
navigation. I use the other screen with the bank indicator when doing
approaches and such.

Wayne

"Ted Lindgreen" wrote in message
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Wayne wrote:
The "lock to roads feature " can be turned on or off and remembers your
preference in each mode (Aviation, Land, Water). The 196 is an awesome
unit.

Sorry, but this is only partly true:

The "lock to roads feature" can be turned on or off, but it does
NOT remember the "off" preference: in land mode it gets turn on
automatically as a side-effect of a mode change, a "go to", a route
selection, and many other key-press-seqences which seem unrelated
to this "feature" (like merily switching it on and off). In aviation
mode I have observed it to be turned on for no obvious reason
several times. In marine mode I've not yet seen it turned on, but
I hardly ever use it in this mode, so I don't know how it behaves
here..

I agree that it is a great unit, but having to check (and sometimes
reset) "lock to road" in aviation mode every time after switch-on
is silly. Actually I think it's silly that "lock to road" is present
(and can be silently working!) in aviation and water mode.

-- ted