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Needed: comparison of popular Aviation GPS units, Garmin, Lowrance,AvMap, etc.
Anthony wrote:
C. Osbourne wrote: Maybe another way to describe what I'm looking for, is a Consumer Report's type of grid that shows features of each of the GPS's and ranks them as "good, better, and best" Anyone know of comparative review of several GPS's in one place? Thanks for answering here. I think Aviation Consumer has done that??? have you seen that publication? Tony For VFR: Garmin 296 (or 396 if you want the XM weather add-on) For IFR: Garmin 480 (not as intuitive as the Garmin 530, but the 480 will do LPV now, not later). These are the clear winners. |
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I've been happy with my Garmin. I'm also buying an automotive Garmin
and a motorcycle Garmin. My auto one for navigating the courtesy car and my motorcycle one so I dont get lost. |
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"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message online.com...
I *am* eager, though, to hear about flying behind a 480 wrt flight plan entry. The ability to enter flight plans as we've always described them (waypoint, airway, waypoint, airway...) seems like a fantastic "innovation". Is it as good as it sounds? - Andrew I felt it was actually *better* than it sounded, at least to me. I suggest you download Garmin's 480 simulator for Windows, and try it out to see how it seems to you, Andrew. But be assured that the knobs and buttons on the actual unit are easier to operate than the clunky mouse-clicks of the simulator. |
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Andrew Gideon wrote:
wrote: Garmin 480 (not as intuitive as the Garmin 530, but the 480 will do LPV now, not later). Why "not as intuitive"? I've yet to fly behind a 480, but my club's aircraft all have 430s. I'm confortable with them, but I'd not call the interface "intuitive". Is it perhaps that you learned the Garmin units first? I didn't (my first IFRing behind a GPS was the BK units in new Cessnas), and that may make the difference. No, I learned in a 767 first. The 530 was a pretty easy transition for me. I will admit that I haven't gotten nearly as deeply into the 480. But, everyone I chatted with who has mastered the 480 likes it, and the airway database/LPV makes it great. I don't know the level of difficulty of entering airways. I do know that all these G/A panel mounts, with all their knob twisting, is much more difficult than entering data on a FMS. I *am* eager, though, to hear about flying behind a 480 wrt flight plan entry. The ability to enter flight plans as we've always described them (waypoint, airway, waypoint, airway...) seems like a fantastic "innovation". Is it as good as it sounds? - Andrew |
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