av8or426

If you dont want to put out the effort to be the FTF then dont. Personally, I could care less if I was the FTF or not. But there's a lot of cachers out there who enjoy the challenge. Why water down the achievement by making it the first 10? If you dont want it to be competative then do what I do & dont make it that way. Just remember, second place will always be the first loser.

Actually, the 60CSX is mearly a toy & pretty much usless in an airplane. If you care to enlighten youself, go to Garmin's website and look up the Garmin 196, 296, & 396. Those are BASIC VFR only GPS's, not even legal to use to shoot approaches in the clouds. If you want check out REAL "conspicuous consumption" go check out the GNS430 & 530, download the simulator and play around with that for a while.

I agree. I have the csx, and the altimeter isn't worth the trouble of regular recalibration. When I step out my door, at 500 ft, the csx barometric altimeter typically reads 100 to 150 feet too high. The gps elevation (to which you have the option of calibrating it) is always more accurate, usually within 20 ft. It'd be nice if Garmin offered the option of turning off the barometric altimeter and just getting the gps elevation, but they don't. actually, there is such a feature on the CSX. On the satellite page hit MENU then select GPS elevation.

For a while all I was using were magellan units. I started with a GPS 2000, to a ColorTrak, to a MAP410 then finally I got my hands on a magellan Meridian gold. Loved the big screen and all the features. Then my dad bought a Garmin Etrex Vista the screen was too small for his old man eyes to see so he gave it to me to use. I parked the Magellan and used it only in my truck because of the big screen. I liked the garmin it for its size. But the Meridian did get a better signal & had expandable memory, which took Garmin forever to come out with. I was sooo close to buying a 60C then I saw the 60CSx wth SiRF, glad I waited! I do think now that Garmin does make a superior GPS unit. I think their technology is trickeling down from their aviation department. While Magellan is focusing on Car Navigation. I have spent many hours in my airplane with my 196 (which I have recently upgraded to a 296) and my GNS430. For recreation I now have a 60CSx. All these units are so similar in operation its incredible. All their units have operation standard. I can use the same shortcuts with my 60CSx as I do with the 296 or even the GNS430! Ive havd such good experience with Garmin's aviation GPS systems that I didnt even consider a Magellan for my next recreational GPS.