Paul kgyy wrote:
On Mar 9, 3:28 pm, John Taylor wrote:
I'd like to buy a portable uplink weather display for single-engine
piston aircraft I fly recreationally along the east coast. I'm
impressed with VistaNav by Mercury, but it's expensive and large. I've
been looking at Garmin's 396 and 496. I see another solution is
Anywhere Map, but I've been told PDAs just crash too much.

Does anyone with extensive experience on the Anywhere Map have
performance comments to pass on?

Also, what's the deal with the uniformity of Garmin pricing? Isn't
there anyone who sells a new 496 below $2795? If so, I won't tell! In
olden days, when Head skis were at a fixed price, the way to get a
discount was to buy other items of indeterminate cost at the same time.
The only concession I've found with the 496 is shipping below cost.

Thanks!

-John T.


I've used the AWmap GPS with XM weather for several years on an Ipaq
5550 and it has never crashed during GPS operations. I think it's a
bargain right now, actually.


I used Anywhere Map on a 3850 iPAQ for 5 years and NEVER had a crash.
Recently upgraded to a 4710 to get a faster processor to run XMWX and
same story... so far NEVER had a crash.

I particularly like the 'portrait' presentation... I want to see more of
'where I'm going' rather than what's off to the side.

Rich