GPSMAP 195 altitude

"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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In a previous article, "S Narayan" said:
up to 3.01, but don't see any way to add this capability. Are the newer
GPS's like the 196 or 296 storing altitude information?

A while back I looked at the specs on the Garmin web site, and while the
195 definitely does NOT store the altitude, it appears that the 295
*might*. I don't remember what it said about the 196, but I think it was
the same as the 295.

The 196 DOES store altitude in the track. You can view the track on the
map. If you select the track, you can then select: view | profile and see
the altitude profile for the track. You can also look in the log table.

It's all in the user's manual which can be downloaded from Garmin's web
site.

Gerry

And when I first got my 196 it would nag the snot out of me that I was
approaching the destination and I needed to start letting down NOW, showing
a fpm rate based on my present altitude... I finally got tired of the back
seat driving and shut that feature off...
denny
"Gerry Caron" wrote in message
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"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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In a previous article, "S Narayan" said:
up to 3.01, but don't see any way to add this capability. Are the newer
GPS's like the 196 or 296 storing altitude information?

A while back I looked at the specs on the Garmin web site, and while the
195 definitely does NOT store the altitude, it appears that the 295
*might*. I don't remember what it said about the 196, but I think it
was
the same as the 295.

The 196 DOES store altitude in the track. You can view the track on the
map. If you select the track, you can then select: view | profile and see
the altitude profile for the track. You can also look in the log table.

It's all in the user's manual which can be downloaded from Garmin's web
site.

Gerry

In a previous article, "Dennis O'Connor" said:
And when I first got my 196 it would nag the snot out of me that I was
approaching the destination and I needed to start letting down NOW, showing
a fpm rate based on my present altitude... I finally got tired of the back
seat driving and shut that feature off...

My 195 does that too. I like it when I'm VFR, but of course it's not much
help when IFR.


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"Gerry Caron" wrote in message
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"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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In a previous article, "S Narayan" said:
up to 3.01, but don't see any way to add this capability. Are the newer
GPS's like the 196 or 296 storing altitude information?

A while back I looked at the specs on the Garmin web site, and while the
195 definitely does NOT store the altitude, it appears that the 295
*might*. I don't remember what it said about the 196, but I think it
was
the same as the 295.

The 196 DOES store altitude in the track. You can view the track on the
map. If you select the track, you can then select: view | profile and see
the altitude profile for the track. You can also look in the log table.

It's all in the user's manual which can be downloaded from Garmin's web
site.



Well, looks like I have to be satisfied with time, speed and position
information with the 195. It would have been nice to log the altitude and
play it back later.

Thanks for the responses.

On 28 Jan 2004 19:19:34 EST, "S Narayan" wrote:



Well, looks like I have to be satisfied with time, speed and position
information with the 195. It would have been nice to log the altitude and
play it back later.

Thanks for the responses.




Or you could always upgrade to the GPSMAP 196! It is an awsome piece
of equipment. I recently upgraded my GPS Pilot III for the 196 and I
am very impressed. But thanks to this thread, I learned about the
altitude recording feature. Using OziExplorer, you can view the
profile of the track, very nice. And now I realized I can use
OziExplorer to print a sectional with the track overlaid and give it
to passengers after the flight. Thanks for all the info in this
thread!

Glenn

"Glenn Westfall" wrote in message
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On 28 Jan 2004 19:19:34 EST, "S Narayan" wrote:



Well, looks like I have to be satisfied with time, speed and position
information with the 195. It would have been nice to log the altitude and
play it back later.

Thanks for the responses.




Or you could always upgrade to the GPSMAP 196! It is an awsome piece
of equipment. I recently upgraded my GPS Pilot III for the 196 and I
am very impressed. But thanks to this thread, I learned about the
altitude recording feature. Using OziExplorer, you can view the
profile of the track, very nice. And now I realized I can use
OziExplorer to print a sectional with the track overlaid and give it
to passengers after the flight. Thanks for all the info in this
thread!

Glenn

If your passengers are not pilots they may prefer the track overlaid to a
civil map. My favorite source is
http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl because it's very flexible
about what features you may want to show up. (A tip though: to get an image
bigger than 422x359, click on "download GIF image", then manually change the
URL parameters at the end of the URL from "ht=359&iwd=422" to whatever you
want, and hit enter).

Cheers,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas
N7NZ