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Anywhere Map WX vs Garmin 396
From my buddies at the airport to this newsgroup, there is a lot of interest
in the Garming 396. No doubt it is a fine system with great features. Why don't I hear anyone talking about the AnywhereMap WX, which seems to have a roughly equivalent feature set for $800-$1,000 less up front cost? Thoughts? Anyone own (or borrow) an AnywhereMap WX and care to comment? KB |
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Anywhere Map WX vs Garmin 396
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"Kyle Boatright" wrote: From my buddies at the airport to this newsgroup, there is a lot of interest in the Garming 396. No doubt it is a fine system with great features. Why don't I hear anyone talking about the AnywhereMap WX, which seems to have a roughly equivalent feature set for $800-$1,000 less up front cost? Thoughts? Anyone own (or borrow) an AnywhereMap WX and care to comment? KB I would recommend a Google search, but here's my quick opinion: For weather display, AWM is decent but not complete. For navigation, AWM is decent by not complete. For portability, reliability, and ease of use, AWM is fair to poor. The Garmin 396 isn't perfect (can't stand that horizontal screen orientation), but its features are much more complete and very well implemented. Garmin's support is also outstanding. AWM support was always very responsive, but the end result was usually, "I don't know when that bug will be fixed," or "We don't know anything about that problem," even though AWM staff would specifically respond to posts about the problem on their own forums. I don't think that I have ever seen more over-promising and under-delivering in my life than from the AWM folks. AWM also does not include auto-route street mapping, marine capabilities, or XM audio capabilities, if any of that matters to you. JKG |
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Anywhere Map WX vs Garmin 396
I've owned AnywhereMap for about four years and am quite satisfied with
it. It's been reliable and the newest version is tight on all the most important features. I do not currently have weather on it but would like to add that soon. Did you know that the 28-day update subscription on database changes is only $95 per year for AnywhereMap? Nobody I know comes anywhere near that. If I owned a Garmin or Lowrance, I might not be willing to pay the three or four times that amount per year to keep the database up to date. Kyle Boatright wrote: From my buddies at the airport to this newsgroup, there is a lot of interest in the Garming 396. No doubt it is a fine system with great features. Why don't I hear anyone talking about the AnywhereMap WX, which seems to have a roughly equivalent feature set for $800-$1,000 less up front cost? Thoughts? Anyone own (or borrow) an AnywhereMap WX and care to comment? KB |
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Anywhere Map WX vs Garmin 396
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"Grumman 236" wrote: Did you know that the 28-day update subscription on database changes is only $95 per year for AnywhereMap? Nobody I know comes anywhere near that. If I owned a Garmin or Lowrance, I might not be willing to pay Ddid you know that the quality of the AWM database is poor compared with the Jeppesen database that Garmin and Lowrance use? You aren't saving money, you're simply paying less, and getting less. JKG |
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Anywhere Map WX vs Garmin 396
Well the PocketFMS database update every don't know how often is free. To
be come a donor is US$60. This is about as good as it gets and it's a great package. They don't have wx (yet). I looked at the Anywhere product, but couldn't get a response from the company to a couple of simple questions. The PFMS team get back right away. YMMV, Cheers, Kevin "Grumman 236" wrote in message oups.com... I've owned AnywhereMap for about four years and am quite satisfied with it. It's been reliable and the newest version is tight on all the most important features. I do not currently have weather on it but would like to add that soon. Did you know that the 28-day update subscription on database changes is only $95 per year for AnywhereMap? Nobody I know comes anywhere near that. If I owned a Garmin or Lowrance, I might not be willing to pay the three or four times that amount per year to keep the database up to date. Kyle Boatright wrote: From my buddies at the airport to this newsgroup, there is a lot of interest in the Garming 396. No doubt it is a fine system with great features. Why don't I hear anyone talking about the AnywhereMap WX, which seems to have a roughly equivalent feature set for $800-$1,000 less up front cost? Thoughts? Anyone own (or borrow) an AnywhereMap WX and care to comment? KB |
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Anywhere Map WX vs Garmin 396
Can you cite an example of erroneous or missing data, Jonathan? I'm
sure we'd all be very interested to see the validity of this claim demonstrated! =Jonathan Goodish wrote: =Ddid you know that the quality of the AWM database is poor compared with = the Jeppesen database that Garmin and Lowrance use? = = You aren't saving money, you're simply paying less, and getting less. |
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Anywhere Map WX vs Garmin 396
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"Grumman 236" wrote: Can you cite an example of erroneous or missing data, Jonathan? I'm sure we'd all be very interested to see the validity of this claim demonstrated! Yes. Go to KPIT and look within 200 miles to find numerous airports with missing or incorrect frequencies, runway information, incorrect MEAs on airways, missing obstacles (used to be everything under 400AGL, not sure whether they fixed this), and mislabeled roads. Need I go on? JKG |
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Anywhere Map WX vs Garmin 396
Jonathan Goodish wrote: In article .com, "Grumman 236" wrote: Can you cite an example of erroneous or missing data, Jonathan? I'm sure we'd all be very interested to see the validity of this claim demonstrated! Yes. Go to KPIT and look within 200 miles to find numerous airports with missing or incorrect frequencies, runway information, incorrect MEAs on airways, missing obstacles (used to be everything under 400AGL, not sure whether they fixed this), and mislabeled roads. Need I go on? Yes, if you would be so kind as to list an airport, nav-aid, fix or obstacle that is correct in the Jeppesen database and incorrect in AnywhereMap's FAA database, it would help immensely! |
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Anywhere Map WX vs Garmin 396
Grumman,
Yes, if you would be so kind as to list an airport, nav-aid, fix or obstacle that is correct in the Jeppesen database and incorrect in AnywhereMap's FAA database, it would help immensely! Oh, you want facts? ;-) -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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Anywhere Map WX vs Garmin 396
I've had the AWM system for 2-3 years with Wx. There have been some problems with software, and I consider Control Vision to be somewhat sloppy, although in their defence I recognize the difficulty of making all their features work with the big variety of PDAs that people use. They have many extended features (gliding range circles to passing airports) but most of the fancy stuff is just that to me - I don't really need the built-in logbook, for example. I do like having a single PDA that I can use both for flying and other purposes. On the other hand, my experience with Garmin has been that the equipment is much more reliable. I made a recent IFR trip in rain and found the Wx display on the Ipaq to be accurate and wonderfully helpful. |
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