wickedsprint

Why need a memory card if it has city select already loaded for the entire country? , 140mb should cover alot of topo maps.

And we wonder why stores have stopped stocking items. You might try West marine, they will also pricematch online prices, at least the one in pensacola would.

http://www.garmin.com/whatsNew/ The new qwest has detail maps for the entire USA plus 140mb to use for topo or other maps, not really needed for city select since it is all pre-loaded, and the new street pilot has the ability to intercept traffic and weather signals, and then color codes the map for congested areas and whatnot. They also have a mini streetpilot that is the size of a baseball.

395 at www.gpsdiscount.com (the one with free tee shirt)

It is not certified, it just happens to have the jep database, you cannot certify a handheld for aircraft navigation, they only fall under the grey realm of VFR aids to navigation.

for 20 more bucks you get the Garmin V with a quad helix antenna and auto routing

Like the 296 except with XM weather..holy crap. http://www.garmin.com/products/gpsmap396/

If he can live with 3 meter accuracy just about any consumer gps for cheap will do it for him. Is 6 feet worth 3 grand? Justhaving a hard time figuring why he needs submeter unless he is a surveyor.

Let us not forget the e-map which took up to a 128mb card. The 276 series and the 196 also take memory cards.

www.cycoactive.com makes a better mount that has a more secure means of attaching the power cord, checkit out, it can be used with the rest of the ram parts for mounting.

Yes, but most of the garmin units still have an HSI, just not as badass of one as the 96 series. They have a basic HSI, no glide slope bar or heading bug. Even my gps V has a nice HSI.

I see alot of people asking questions on how to properly use an HSI, people with flying backgrounds disregard, but an excellent website to REALLY learn precision navigation with your reciever can be found at www.cockpitgps.com or www.smallboatgps.com depending on which suits your fancy. They focus on using non aviation handhelds mainly with some screenshots from a few aviation units for examples.

On my 96C yes, but usually it shows bearing amd course info to the same waypoint, unless you set it up to do an approach, the heading bug will show bearing to the final approach fix in the published approach for whatever runway you choose while the HSI will align itself to thepublished final approach course, so in that sense you are navigating with reference to two points in space. The heading bug is like having the bearing needle, except only the head of it. The 60C still does an HSI, just without the heading bug. If you have a route with multiple legs and turns at each waypoint, the HSI will align to the desired course, but won't read up and down untily ou make the correct turn. For a fantastic article on how an HSI works, go to www.cockpitgps.com

It is a 96C, which you can set up the vertical nav based on preset altitudes and descent rates, essentially making an ILS wherever you want.

Close, an HSI shows numeric track, crosstrack error and with my 96C even bearing to the next waypoint all visually. Your magellan is showing desired bearing, with actual groundtrack in rough numbers since it does not show it on a detailed compass card. The arrow on an HSI will ALWAYS read the same course and show it relative to your track, and the middle of the arrows body will displace to either side to show crosstrack error. For example, if your desired groundtrack (course line drawn on the map) is north/south and you make a turn to the east, the head of the arrow will be at the 9'0clock, the tail at the 3 oclock and the middle of the arrow will start to get displaced towards the bottom of the screen, if you turn back north to paralell the course, the head of needle will return to 12'oclock, but the bar is way over to the left, you have to turn west ish to start seeing the bar come back to join the rest of the needle, when it joins you are on the course line but not the right heding, so now turn back north. I hope this is not confusing you too much.

I assume you meant that you wanted TO debate or A debate, since we are ribbing each other. LOL is not a word, linguists don't argue in acronyms. I suck at english(only took the minimum classes to graduate with my crim degree) so I expect a funny response since I am sure I broke all sorts of rules. I just learned last week a period is always followed by two spaces..imagine that.

To add garmin ha done right by me, they even replaced my GPS V after I ran it over with my truck for the standard 150 replace fee.

To add, does magellan do this?

In the above example if we turn to make the needle vertical, we will be parallel our desired course and be right of course. It shows us right now on a good intercept to get back on course, then put the needle back to the vertical to stay on course. In aircraft it represents heading so sometimes keeping course shows the head of the needle off to the side due to a crosswind, this is your crab angle. On a gps it shows ground track, which means you need to keep it vertical, do this and the cdi will stay centered and you will remain on course. You can set up a multiple leg route and fly the whole thing with this screen since it will move the needle to the desired groundtrack at each turn, so you keep the needle centered for all legs as it switches and you stay on your route. To put an HSI in a plane can cost more than some cars, to have this available in a handheld is amazing. Here is a screenshot of a garmin HSI. Right now it shows us on desired groundtrack, on course and the bearing bug is centered showing that we are on the original course line. The needle will ALWAYS be on 347 since 347 degrees was the original course line, if you turn, it gets displaced as in the displaced HSI pic I showed.

HSI shows a course deviation needle superimposed over your ground track compass card Really quite wonderful for course intercepts. The aviation units also have a bearing bug that will show realtime bearing to a waypoint at the same time, in case you leave your desired course and need a direct bearing right away. Here is a pic of one in an airplane, most garmin handhelds have a variation of this.

Funny I thought the oposite, Garmins have alot more serious navigation pages like an EHSI that can simultaneously show bearing and course information to the same or even different waypoints plus completely user configurable data field pages, what order you want the pages to display..etc What does magellan have, a compass and a needle pointer? Do they even have an HSI ?

Bueller?

I would have to give the durability nod to garmin for having 90 percent of their units completely waterproof (submersible) and for making some pretty rugged cases.

How did they do this??? Somehow got a map display and symbols from FAA database into a sportrack color. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...sspagename=WDVW

I would have to give the durability nod to garmin for having 90 percent of their units completely waterproof (submersible) and for making some pretty rugged cases.