Price Drop in Garmin Portables

texasflyer wrote:
Garmin needs to drop their prices on much more than just a measly $400
off their top end model.

They need to quit being such greedy bastages and come out with a nice
basic, easy to use, portable aviation GPS with large color "portrait"
screen, with WAAS, terrain/obstacle data, airport data, built-in
flight log and E6B calculator features, "land mode", etc, etc, etc,
and sell it for under $800 with all the common accessories such as
cables, yoke mounts, etc, all included in the package price.

Oh wait... I've just described the Lowrance 2000C !!!!!!

One could easily counter that Lowrence needs to stop being greedy and ADD XM
weather.

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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texasflyer wrote:
Garmin needs to drop their prices on much more than just a measly $400
off their top end model.

They need to quit being such greedy bastages and come out with a nice
basic, easy to use, portable aviation GPS with large color "portrait"
screen, with WAAS, terrain/obstacle data, airport data, built-in
flight log and E6B calculator features, "land mode", etc, etc, etc,
and sell it for under $800 with all the common accessories such as
cables, yoke mounts, etc, all included in the package price.

Oh wait... I've just described the Lowrance 2000C !!!!!!

One could easily counter that Lowrence needs to stop being greedy and ADD
XM weather.

At SnF, I spoke with the founder of Lowrance (Darrel, if I remember
correctly). He indicated that when the company was purchased by a company
more closely aligned with the Marine/boating industry, assets were shifted
to create some upscale products for marine navigation. This kept Lowrance
from having the first XM aviation weather GPS.

He also indicated that Lowrance would be bringing an XM product to the
aviation market.

FYI, he's a big aviation enthusiast and owns several airplanes, including a
Pilatus, an Extra, a Sukhoi, a couple more I can't remember. He was looking
for a Cub or similar..

KB

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:27:11 -0400, "Kyle Boatright"
wrote:

He also indicated that Lowrance would be bringing an XM product to the
aviation market.

Bendix/King's KDR610 is an XM unit which replaces the KDR510
ground-station uplink, which has been EOL'd for 6/30/08 according to
their upgrade bulletin. Looks like XM is just about it for in-flight
weather.

Kyle Boatright wrote:
"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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texasflyer wrote:
Garmin needs to drop their prices on much more than just a measly
$400 off their top end model.

They need to quit being such greedy bastages and come out with a
nice basic, easy to use, portable aviation GPS with large color
"portrait" screen, with WAAS, terrain/obstacle data, airport data,
built-in flight log and E6B calculator features, "land mode", etc,
etc, etc, and sell it for under $800 with all the common
accessories such as cables, yoke mounts, etc, all included in the
package price. Oh wait... I've just described the Lowrance 2000C !!!!!!

One could easily counter that Lowrence needs to stop being greedy
and ADD XM weather.

At SnF, I spoke with the founder of Lowrance (Darrel, if I remember
correctly). He indicated that when the company was purchased by a
company more closely aligned with the Marine/boating industry, assets
were shifted to create some upscale products for marine navigation. This
kept Lowrance from having the first XM aviation weather GPS.

He also indicated that Lowrance would be bringing an XM product to the
aviation market.

FYI, he's a big aviation enthusiast and owns several airplanes,
including a Pilatus, an Extra, a Sukhoi, a couple more I can't
remember. He was looking for a Cub or similar..

KB

I hope they put one out but seeing as Garmin is on their second generation
XM unit and my well be about to release the 3rd all I can say is Lowrence
needs to get off the pot becuase Garmin has XM on some of their marine
products as well.

Marco Leon wrote:

The 496 is now down to $2,395 for many stores. Since the vendors need an OK
from Garmin to do this, it may mean a new one on the horizon... Anyone know
more info?

Marco


Yep, it will look like this. Think 3D.


https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=148&pID=9158#

Yep that is what it is going to look like. I have a nice one on my boat and
was wondering when garmin would do this. I bet that sucker is going to be 3k
or more. I can wait I have an MX 20 in my airplane that sucker is nice.
"Newps" wrote in message
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Marco Leon wrote:

The 496 is now down to $2,395 for many stores. Since the vendors need an
OK from Garmin to do this, it may mean a new one on the horizon... Anyone
know more info?

Marco


Yep, it will look like this. Think 3D.


https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=148&pID=9158#

"Newps" == Newps writes:

Newps https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=148&pID=9158#

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"Newps" wrote in message
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Marco Leon wrote:

The 496 is now down to $2,395 for many stores. Since the vendors need an
OK from Garmin to do this, it may mean a new one on the horizon... Anyone
know more info?

Yep, it will look like this. Think 3D.
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=148&pID=9158#

3D as in the Chelton PFD or 3D in terms of satellite imagery? If it's the
former, I can't see how they would do the AHRS in a portable for a
reasonable price. If it's the latter, I don't see satellite imagery adding a
significant capability over the current terrain feautres in the 496. I
believe I even posted a while back about the possibility of satellite
imagery (soon after the marine portables came out with them) but the
consensus was that it was no big deal.

Marco