GPSMAP 195 or 196

Mike Spera wrote:
but the current Apollo is vertical and does get in the way of the panel.
The 195 looks even taller than the Apollo, so it may not be so good. I
have a Cherokee 140 with bowtie yokes. Any good/bad reports in yoke
mounting either unit?

I have a 195 on a 140's bowtie yoke. My plane is also old enough to
have the "scattered" panel layout, so the 195 partially blocks the clock.
I've been able to live with that. The Garmin yoke mount is plastic and
tends to flex a bit. I changed to an aluminum mount that I bought from
Chief, but switched back to the Garmin one after a few years (because
the aluminum one broke!).

The 195 does have a psuedo-HSI display, rather than an entire
psuedo-panel, but my opinion is that you'll be using the moving map
screen 99% of the time. The screen update rate of the 196 is probably a
lot faster than the 195, and the resolution and grey scale levels are
better on the 196. That might make it worth it. I guess it all depends
on how much you want to part with the extra $325.

--- Jay


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