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You might consider one of garmins "aircraft" models. I haven't looked in a while but the ones about 2 years ago had all the functionality of the 76 including autorouting and it added aircraft navigation functions. If you dont fly then maybe not so important but I found mine interesting when flying commercial because you always knew why you weren't flying towards your destination cause you were heading towards some "navaid" out there. Also, you always knew when you were entering restricted airspace. Kinda irritating when driving..LOL heading up the road and then it flashes that a restricted airspace is ahead. As a X pilot (possibly will take it back up later in life) I liked having that stuff.

OK, just do what 75% of us did and get the 60csx (then wait for garmin to fix the few bugs that still exsist like altimeter screwing up). Get the 60CSX and then add mapsource city select (or is it navigator) and order a 1 gig transflash card (or live with the 60meg oem until the 2 gigs come out). Also, get a ram mount for your car 60csx $400 mapsource $110 transflash 1g $40 Ram mount $60. dadgum, do I have that much into my GPS??? :-)

Wow, prices are dropping fast on these..I paid like 435 for my 60csx chumbo had them for like 415. Now down below 400. Wonder how low they will go before they stablize? there are a lot of places that their regular price is 399 or around there. gpsdiscount.com has them for 399 everyday. And they are super fast.

A "mini" SD card wont fit but a "micro" SD does fit (transflash) and they dont make 2 gig cards yet as far as I know. The unit comes with a 64MB card so I really think you meant 1GB and not 1MB. Anyway, get a 1Gig transflash (microSD) card for about 30bucks after rebate or wait for the 2 gig version...It is suppoesed to work but know one knows for sure. The 1 gigs do work.

If its anything like my new 60csx it has the next turn ready for you in just a second or two. I think the 2710 is as fast or faster.

Well, I know that if I get on a plane and fly to CA from Indiana it has a hard time locking up when I get there unless I do the "move the pointer to where I am" to get it started trick. Also, if you leave your gps without batteries for a while it will be super stupid and mine even came up and prompted me (gps V) if I had left it stored without batteries and if so I think it has to go through some SUPER "figureing out where it is" routine. So, did you do any of those things?

What I want is the entire city select mapset in my card..2GB. What I have now is the 1GB card and half the us installed. I do travel for work so I need boston to huntsville to el paso and more. What I need is really much less since USB allows much faster map loading. With the bigger cards your buying convenience. Honestly, what you need is the abiltiy to have everymap installed from your orgin to destination so that autorouting can work correctly. Only you know how much memory you absolutly need.

Hey, so what is the best tool for looking at my tracklog and view elevation and times??? I ahve a garmin 60csx

Had: Lowrance airmap 100 Have: Garmin gpsV Garmin 60csx

FYI NiMH data sheet http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/nh15-2500.pdf Lithium data sheet: http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/l91.pdf

Their must be a regulator in there to convert external volages to what the gps wants to see. You normally want to avoid putting battery voltage through a regulator since the regulator will steal about 0.2 to 0.7 volts right off the top. Lithium anode batteries are the NEW technology and researchers are trying hard to find ways around thier limitation since they have such a high energy density.

Of the two (compass and altimeter) I like the pressure trend readout. I never had that before and its neat to watch a storm come in (pressure drop) and then rise again as it goes out. Pressure drop can give you an indiation of stormy weather so I like it. The compass is nice to have, but I find myself always questioning its accuracy. I would want a "real" compass in any case.

Here's omething I found on slickdeals...I paid 67 a few weeks ago... Good luck http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.ph...=34506&t=234851

Do you honestly expect a 10 yr old piece of technology to work as well as todays? Back when these were built I remember a friend bought one and let me borrow it. The thing never did lock in the twenty minutes I had it on my dashboard. They recieved NON simultanious reception of the birds. These things were the early answer to gps but nothing like just a few years later then the receivers that could track 12 birds simultaniously were introduced. You can get a bargan on some of the "newer" 12ch units today. That old 45 was first generation. Much like the old 286 PC's...not a serious tool and especially when you see whats out there today. IMO drop that old unit and pick up one of the older 12ch models (lowrance gps100 or something like it..there are many out there). Good Luck

Funny, It happened to me just this afternoon...was thinking of posting on here.. You beat me to it.

So, gpsbabel doesn't support the .low extension of the old lowrance airmap 100? dadgum. I've got a track on their that I desparately want to save to my garmin. Anyone help me? ' You did at least skim this http://www.gpsbabel.org/readme.html, right?

Humm, I get a "compression error" when I run the install??? anyone else? http://www.grimlabs.com/bablerror.jpg

I love the ram mounts...Mine is a suction cup for the windshield. expensive though but very moveable. and no worries about coming loose. hmmm ... good idea !

I think they are more concerned about being robbed or haveing their cars vandalised more than getting dirty. I know when I picked up my sister in law from the greyhouud bus station in st louis at 3am I was surprised to see 20 yr olds rideing their bicycles around the sidewalks in the neighborhood and also having folks begging from me at that hour. Didn't seem to be a very safe area to be in. It would be nice to have those types of areas that are known for crime to be routed around. Nothing to do with poor...everything to do with safety of my family.

1gig transflash works AOK in my 60csx

I would like to see them release another beta with more features....heck, 2.62 works fine for me so far...not issues that I have seen. I want them to add back some of my old gpsV features though (add via to route, hotkey for navigation to "HOME", I also would like more realestate on the map screen...maybe they could add another map screen that saves different display options than the first that would be easy to flip back and fourth to.

I agree, I just upgraded from a gpsV and I miss my "add via to route" feature and my "hit find twice to go to the HOME waypoint" feature. I never used detour on my V and I'm not sure how it would work..I know you told it to stay off your normal route for "X" number of miles and then it would resume. I think my csx recalcluates fast enough that it is a good enough substitute for the detour option. I want my VIA option though!!! Garmin..doyouhearme!!! Yes, I remember & used to use that feature. I did question [here] about that feature NOT being available in my 60c?? That is an excellent intuitive feature that would NO DOUBT be useful!

city select has smaller map segments so you can pick and choose your areas more easily. Navigator has much larger areas and I think some have said that there are areas that wont fit into a 64meg card? All of city select maps use about 1.5Gig (I have a one gig card and have eastern US to Elpaso give or take do a search on city navigator and It hink you can find some info on the two on these forums

I'm confused...why do I need the POI loader (that pops up automatically when I plug in my csx) when I have the mapsource software? Dont both allow the uploading of POI's...now that I think of it, maybe mapsource doesn't do this...?? I need a good FAQ on the way memory is used in the gps....the use of POI's and waypoints and loading maps and proximity alarms. Well, I haven't tested this in the field by driving by one, but I will tomorrow on my way to work. When you have your "X" connected to the PC and power it on, the POI Loader opens (as you know). Once you point to the folder where your POIs are, you will see the "What units should be used for ditance and speed?". I have mine set to Feet and MPH. Then, below that box you have a choice for Manual, or Express. Choose Manual. You will then check the box that says "This file contains proximity alert points". I did not pick the Speed option, but entered 500 feet in the "Alert at this distance". I'm thinking this will now give a tone prompt when I get within the 500 feet I set. It is not quite the same as seeing a proximity circle but it will set all the designated POI waypoints to a proximity distance. Again, I say this but have not tested it in the field. A drawback to have your POIs this way is your comment field can not have any of your hints, etc. It puts in two items. One line reads: Alarm Range: 499ft (in my case when I specified 500 feet), and Alarm Speed: Unknown (in my case because I didn't assign a speed).

really, I thought this was the opposite??? I need to get rid of my blue flags too....I havne't tried yet. Is it in the manual or is it just on the way point page? Can it be set up so the default waypoint marker is something diffeerent than the blue flag?