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March 28th 04, 02:54 AM
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What's an AM1000?
wrote in message ... Well................ It arrived yesterday... And 1st impressions are... WAY beyond expectations... Well constructed, high quality components.. LOVE the HSI ! Manual is very good, and unique... "we would like you to start here, but if you JUST HAVE TO start playing with it, go straight to page whatever and go to it" etc... G They did not screw with the mounting, just included TWO of the great "RAM" mounting systems. It fits the yoke of our 172 perfectly, although we used the socket section from the RAM suction mount 'cause it was shorter and positioned the unit closer to the yoke cushion. Active antenna velcro'd to the cowl ahead of the handhold, we gonna try it there..3 other antenna mounts supplied... Accquires FAST.. and seems to do all expected of it.. and dims down very well for night operations, also has a "night" (negative ) setting... LOVE the big screen! ...can have the HSI & a map up, (split screen) and these 55 yr old eyes can still see it! and it does not interfere with reading the panel instruments.. Like the vertical orentation of the screen as well... We operated it in the car and it responded well to all changes on direstion, speed alt etc.. Weather permitting, we fly it tomorrow... I will post our experiences, comments etc. with this unit here as we use it IF any one is interested. Thanks to all that offered suggestions / advice here while we were shopping! Oh yea, we decided on the ICOM portable with VOR as well... Two new toys in one day! G Dave 
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March 28th 04, 03:29 AM
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OK, we got the AM1000!
Well................
It arrived yesterday... And 1st impressions are... WAY beyond expectations... Well constructed, high quality components.. LOVE the HSI ! Manual is very good, and unique... "we would like you to start here, but if you JUST HAVE TO start playing with it, go straight to page whatever and go to it" etc... G They did not screw with the mounting, just included TWO of the great "RAM" mounting systems. It fits the yoke of our 172 perfectly, although we used the socket section from the RAM suction mount 'cause it was shorter and positioned the unit closer to the yoke cushion. Active antenna velcro'd to the cowl ahead of the handhold, we gonna try it there..3 other antenna mounts supplied... Accquires FAST.. and seems to do all expected of it.. and dims down very well for night operations, also has a "night" (negative ) setting... LOVE the big screen! ...can have the HSI & a map up, (split screen) and these 55 yr old eyes can still see it! and it does not interfere with reading the panel instruments.. Like the vertical orentation of the screen as well... We operated it in the car and it responded well to all changes on direstion, speed alt etc.. Weather permitting, we fly it tomorrow... I will post our experiences, comments etc. with this unit here as we use it IF any one is interested. Thanks to all that offered suggestions / advice here while we were shopping! Oh yea, we decided on the ICOM portable with VOR as well... Two new toys in one day! G Dave
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March 28th 04, 04:21 AM
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Dave,
The wife and I just returned from a vacation trip, (16.8 hour flight time) to Santa Fe, the meteor crater, Sedona, AZ, and the Grand Canyon. My new AirMap 1000 performed like a champ and quickly became my preferred NAV source even though I have a panel mount GPS as well. I predict you'll like yours... a lot. One of the features I hadn't foreseen being too useful was the Map Create software and associated database. I loaded the whole route before we left and I was glad I did. The added detail provided when you zoom in is fabulous. We have been following the old Santa Fe trail with my old AM 100 by programming waypoints in before the flight. I started doing that again for this leg and found the whole trail was already on the map! We used the GPS to do everything from find our way around unfamiliar towns in rental cars, follow 4X4 trails in our rented Jeep, and find restaurants and hotels. It even lists the phone numbers of the business establishments. Want seafood? Search the units database pick the seafood category, hit nearest button and you'll find your closest fish places. Call their supplied phone number and make a reservation. Slap the unit in the rental car using the extra suction cup RAM mount and let it lead you to the eatery. We used it to find ice cream establishments on two different occasions and a Rite-Aid pharmacy as well. Program the Grand Canyon Corridor waypoints into the unit and follow them over the big hole. What a trip! Beautiful weather the whole way. BTW, my favorite airborne navigation display is the one that combines the map and vertical altitude and airspeed and vsi ribbons. My wife isn't into electronic toys, but once she saw how useful it was she kept reminding me to bring it along every time we left the hotel. Joe Schneider Cherokee 8437R - Grand Canyon Crosser Extra-ordinaire wrote in message ... Well................ It arrived yesterday... And 1st impressions are... WAY beyond expectations... Well constructed, high quality components.. LOVE the HSI ! Manual is very good, and unique... "we would like you to start here, but if you JUST HAVE TO start playing with it, go straight to page whatever and go to it" etc... G They did not screw with the mounting, just included TWO of the great "RAM" mounting systems. It fits the yoke of our 172 perfectly, although we used the socket section from the RAM suction mount 'cause it was shorter and positioned the unit closer to the yoke cushion. Active antenna velcro'd to the cowl ahead of the handhold, we gonna try it there..3 other antenna mounts supplied... Accquires FAST.. and seems to do all expected of it.. and dims down very well for night operations, also has a "night" (negative ) setting... LOVE the big screen! ...can have the HSI & a map up, (split screen) and these 55 yr old eyes can still see it! and it does not interfere with reading the panel instruments.. Like the vertical orentation of the screen as well... We operated it in the car and it responded well to all changes on direstion, speed alt etc.. Weather permitting, we fly it tomorrow... I will post our experiences, comments etc. with this unit here as we use it IF any one is interested. Thanks to all that offered suggestions / advice here while we were shopping! Oh yea, we decided on the ICOM portable with VOR as well... Two new toys in one day! G Dave
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March 28th 04, 06:48 AM
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I was wondering the same thing. Did a search for it on yahoo but no luck.
Tom Sixkiller wrote: What's an AM1000? wrote in message ... Well................ It arrived yesterday... And 1st impressions are... WAY beyond expectations... Well constructed, high quality components.. LOVE the HSI ! Manual is very good, and unique... "we would like you to start here, but if you JUST HAVE TO start playing with it, go straight to page whatever and go to it" etc... G They did not screw with the mounting, just included TWO of the great "RAM" mounting systems. It fits the yoke of our 172 perfectly, although we used the socket section from the RAM suction mount 'cause it was shorter and positioned the unit closer to the yoke cushion. Active antenna velcro'd to the cowl ahead of the handhold, we gonna try it there..3 other antenna mounts supplied... Accquires FAST.. and seems to do all expected of it.. and dims down very well for night operations, also has a "night" (negative ) setting... LOVE the big screen! ...can have the HSI & a map up, (split screen) and these 55 yr old eyes can still see it! and it does not interfere with reading the panel instruments.. Like the vertical orentation of the screen as well... We operated it in the car and it responded well to all changes on direstion, speed alt etc.. Weather permitting, we fly it tomorrow... I will post our experiences, comments etc. with this unit here as we use it IF any one is interested. Thanks to all that offered suggestions / advice here while we were shopping! Oh yea, we decided on the ICOM portable with VOR as well... Two new toys in one day! G Dave
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#5
March 28th 04, 08:28 AM
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http://www.lowrance.com/Aviation/Products/AM1000.asp
Jeff wrote: I was wondering the same thing. Did a search for it on yahoo but no luck. Tom Sixkiller wrote: What's an AM1000? wrote in message ... Well................ It arrived yesterday... And 1st impressions are... WAY beyond expectations... Well constructed, high quality components.. LOVE the HSI ! Manual is very good, and unique... "we would like you to start here, but if you JUST HAVE TO start playing with it, go straight to page whatever and go to it" etc... G They did not screw with the mounting, just included TWO of the great "RAM" mounting systems. It fits the yoke of our 172 perfectly, although we used the socket section from the RAM suction mount 'cause it was shorter and positioned the unit closer to the yoke cushion. Active antenna velcro'd to the cowl ahead of the handhold, we gonna try it there..3 other antenna mounts supplied... Accquires FAST.. and seems to do all expected of it.. and dims down very well for night operations, also has a "night" (negative ) setting... LOVE the big screen! ...can have the HSI & a map up, (split screen) and these 55 yr old eyes can still see it! and it does not interfere with reading the panel instruments.. Like the vertical orentation of the screen as well... We operated it in the car and it responded well to all changes on direstion, speed alt etc.. Weather permitting, we fly it tomorrow... I will post our experiences, comments etc. with this unit here as we use it IF any one is interested. Thanks to all that offered suggestions / advice here while we were shopping! Oh yea, we decided on the ICOM portable with VOR as well... Two new toys in one day! G Dave
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March 28th 04, 02:57 PM
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Sorry!
Should have used the full name... Lowrance AirMap 1000 GPS Previous threads refered to it as the AM 1000.. My bad..  Dave On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:54:43 -0700, "Tom Sixkiller" wrote: What's an AM1000? wrote in message .. . Well................ It arrived yesterday... And 1st impressions are... WAY beyond expectations... Well constructed, high quality components.. LOVE the HSI ! Manual is very good, and unique... "we would like you to start here, but if you JUST HAVE TO start playing with it, go straight to page whatever and go to it" etc... G They did not screw with the mounting, just included TWO of the great "RAM" mounting systems. It fits the yoke of our 172 perfectly, although we used the socket section from the RAM suction mount 'cause it was shorter and positioned the unit closer to the yoke cushion. Active antenna velcro'd to the cowl ahead of the handhold, we gonna try it there..3 other antenna mounts supplied... Accquires FAST.. and seems to do all expected of it.. and dims down very well for night operations, also has a "night" (negative ) setting... LOVE the big screen! ...can have the HSI & a map up, (split screen) and these 55 yr old eyes can still see it! and it does not interfere with reading the panel instruments.. Like the vertical orentation of the screen as well... We operated it in the car and it responded well to all changes on direstion, speed alt etc.. Weather permitting, we fly it tomorrow... I will post our experiences, comments etc. with this unit here as we use it IF any one is interested. Thanks to all that offered suggestions / advice here while we were shopping! Oh yea, we decided on the ICOM portable with VOR as well... Two new toys in one day! G Dave
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March 28th 04, 03:04 PM
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Hi Joe!
TY for your comments.. We shopped awful hard, and this is the choice, time will tell if we were correct, but early indications are that we are going to have to come up with a HUGE disappointment somewhere in this unit to reverse our initial impressions. We gona test fly it today.. a litle gusty.. but we gotta play with this! And , yes, I did read the whole book...  Dave On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:21:12 -0600, "JJS" jschneider@REMOVE SOCKSpldi.net wrote: Dave, The wife and I just returned from a vacation trip, (16.8 hour flight time) to Santa Fe, the meteor crater, Sedona, AZ, and the Grand Canyon. My new AirMap 1000 performed like a champ and quickly became my preferred NAV source even though I have a panel mount GPS as well. I predict you'll like yours... a lot. One of the features I hadn't foreseen being too useful was the Map Create software and associated database. I loaded the whole route before we left and I was glad I did. The added detail provided when you zoom in is fabulous. We have been following the old Santa Fe trail with my old AM 100 by programming waypoints in before the flight. I started doing that again for this leg and found the whole trail was already on the map! We used the GPS to do everything from find our way around unfamiliar towns in rental cars, follow 4X4 trails in our rented Jeep, and find restaurants and hotels. It even lists the phone numbers of the business establishments. Want seafood? Search the units database pick the seafood category, hit nearest button and you'll find your closest fish places. Call their supplied phone number and make a reservation. Slap the unit in the rental car using the extra suction cup RAM mount and let it lead you to the eatery. We used it to find ice cream establishments on two different occasions and a Rite-Aid pharmacy as well. Program the Grand Canyon Corridor waypoints into the unit and follow them over the big hole. What a trip! Beautiful weather the whole way. BTW, my favorite airborne navigation display is the one that combines the map and vertical altitude and airspeed and vsi ribbons. My wife isn't into electronic toys, but once she saw how useful it was she kept reminding me to bring it along every time we left the hotel. Joe Schneider Cherokee 8437R - Grand Canyon Crosser Extra-ordinaire wrote in message .. . Well................ It arrived yesterday... And 1st impressions are... WAY beyond expectations... Well constructed, high quality components.. LOVE the HSI ! Manual is very good, and unique... "we would like you to start here, but if you JUST HAVE TO start playing with it, go straight to page whatever and go to it" etc... G They did not screw with the mounting, just included TWO of the great "RAM" mounting systems. It fits the yoke of our 172 perfectly, although we used the socket section from the RAM suction mount 'cause it was shorter and positioned the unit closer to the yoke cushion. Active antenna velcro'd to the cowl ahead of the handhold, we gonna try it there..3 other antenna mounts supplied... Accquires FAST.. and seems to do all expected of it.. and dims down very well for night operations, also has a "night" (negative ) setting... LOVE the big screen! ...can have the HSI & a map up, (split screen) and these 55 yr old eyes can still see it! and it does not interfere with reading the panel instruments.. Like the vertical orentation of the screen as well... We operated it in the car and it responded well to all changes on direstion, speed alt etc.. Weather permitting, we fly it tomorrow... I will post our experiences, comments etc. with this unit here as we use it IF any one is interested. Thanks to all that offered suggestions / advice here while we were shopping! Oh yea, we decided on the ICOM portable with VOR as well... Two new toys in one day! G Dave
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