Go to http://www.garmin.com/pressroom/aviation/110906.html and read "enabled." The new ones are enabled, the old ones upgradeable.



Mxsmanic wrote:
RomeoMike writes:

Suggest you go to the Garmin website, where you will find that the 430
and 530 ARE WAAS enabled.

I did, and I actually read what was on the page, where it is clearly
written that the 530 is WAAS-UPGRADEABLE. Obviously, if it is
upgradable, it doesn't use WAAS out of the box.

There is a version of the 530 that includes WAAS capability,
designated 530W. What that means, obviously, is that the base version
of the GNS 530 does not include WAAS.

It would in your
words be quite an omission for any NEW GPS unit to not be WAAS enabled,
though I certainly don't know that ALL of them are.

No, it would be an omission to provide WAAS capability and not mention
it in the manual. In the Garmin lexicon, "enabled" apparently means
"compatible with," but not "equipped with."