GPS of Choice?

[AR Dave]

1100 miles on the speedo.

Boxer's are way the way to go!

I'm waiting to here how you're liking that GPS Mr Wildharber.

[W.J.Langholz]

1100 miles on the speedo.

Boxer's are way the way to go!

I'm waiting to here how you're liking that GPS Mr Wildharber.

There are several new GPS's out there that would be nice to get a report on......I looked at a 560 for about 30 monutes and just couldn't pull the trigger. We were about 1 1/2 hours into our flight back home and wished I had it had to layover for several hours and wait it out instead.


W.

[GAHorn]

[...There are several new GPS's out there that would be nice to get a report on......I looked at a 560 for about 30 monutes and just couldn't pull the trigger. We were about 1 1/2 hours into our flight back home and wished I had it had to layover for several hours and wait it out instead.


W.

If you're wanting weather depiction, the 510 is the way to go, IMO. The only addt'l feature* the 560 provides of any value is taxi/airport charts and you likely don't need that unless you fly into a LOT of BIG, BUSY airports....and even then, you'd likely resolve that by printing out the taxi-chart for FREE at Airnav or other.

*(The 560 also can provide cloud-cover, but that is a "busy" feature IMO and can be determined already from the easy METAR depictions of the 510.)

[jlwild]

ARDave, Love my new Garmin 510 My problem is prying it away from my wife She really enjoys keeping me on course with it. And, as George said above, METARS are great for cloud cover. Plus,renting it for $49/mo from Air Power in Dallas has given me the chance to try it out flying to the Benton Harbor Convention. Currently have it mounted on the Co-Pilot yoke but will try other locations when I get back home to Texas.

Lolly and I are still wandering thru the NE. As mentioned in another post, we stopped in Niagara Falls and are now in New Haven CT visiting the grandkids. Next on the agenda is stoping in Williamsberg, VA to visit the historical Williamsberg Colonial Village.

More to follow.

[AR Dave]

Hey George - should we move the GPS discussion to a diff thread?

[AR Dave]

Hey George - should we move the GPS discussion to a diff thread?

Lolley's 510 is fanciest GPS I've ever seen! I hadn't looked at any, in 10 yrs, and my Garmin 150 has been in need of service, which I found is not being service anymore. So I borrowed a friends Lowrance 150 (I think that's what it was) so we could fly down to florida. I thought that little thing was the neatest thing ever. Now I've seen the 510.... OK, New Millennium!

As much as I don't fly I probably just need something simple.
Show's a map, up coming airspaces/airports, and has a little plane figure tracking a dashed line.
Then again - that 510 was really something.
So what's the GPS of choice, in the lower priced units, these days?

[cessna170bdriver]

Pardon my being so anal, but this is an EXCELLENTexample of a new thread being called for...

Hey George - should we move the GPS discussion to a diff thread?

Lolley's 510 is fanciest GPS I've ever seen! I hadn't looked at any, in 10 yrs, and my Garmin 150 has been in need of service, which I found is not being service anymore. So I borrowed a friends Lowrance 150 (I think that's what it was) so we could fly down to florida. I thought that little thing was the neatest thing ever. Now I've seen the 510.... OK, New Millennium!

As much as I don't fly I probably just need something simple.
Show's a map, up coming airspaces/airports, and has a little plane figure tracking a dashed line.
Then again - that 510 was really something.
So what's the GPS of choice, in the lower priced units, these days?

Dave,

You might like Adventurepilot's Ifly700. It's a touch-screen moving map with a much larger screen than the 510, and displays your position on a sectional chart. The subscription for updates is $69/year -- I assume that includes Alaska, but I don't know for sure. It also includes IFR plates and airport taxi diagrams. The unit costs $500 unless they've raised the price. One drawback is that it has no internal battery -- it has to be plugged into a cigarette lighter that is powered up, or an external rechargeable battery that they sell as an accessory.

One peculiarity: it comes with a remote. I told them it needs a loop for a lanyard, because the first thing I would do with the remote is drop it down the flap-handle slot! I'm not sure how I'd use a remote control for a hand-held GPS in an airplane, but maybe it's an answer to the potential problem of a touch-screen being hard to use in turbulence.

The web site for this is http://ifly.adventurepilot.com/

[W.J.Langholz]

Pardon my being so anal, but this is an EXCELLENTexample of a new thread being called for...

Hey George - should we move the GPS discussion to a diff thread?

Lolley's 510 is fanciest GPS I've ever seen! I hadn't looked at any, in 10 yrs, and my Garmin 150 has been in need of service, which I found is not being service anymore. So I borrowed a friends Lowrance 150 (I think that's what it was) so we could fly down to florida. I thought that little thing was the neatest thing ever. Now I've seen the 510.... OK, New Millennium!

As much as I don't fly I probably just need something simple.
Show's a map, up coming airspaces/airports, and has a little plane figure tracking a dashed line.
Then again - that 510 was really something.
So what's the GPS of choice, in the lower priced units, these days?

Dave,

You might like Adventurepilot's Ifly700. It's a touch-screen moving map with a much larger screen than the 510, and displays your position on a sectional chart. The subscription for updates is $69/year -- I assume that includes Alaska, but I don't know for sure. It also includes IFR plates and airport taxi diagrams. The unit costs $500 unless they've raised the price. One drawback is that it has no internal battery -- it has to be plugged into a cigarette lighter that is powered up, or an external rechargeable battery that they sell as an accessory.

One peculiarity: it comes with a remote. I told them it needs a loop for a lanyard, because the first thing I would do with the remote is drop it down the flap-handle slot! I'm not sure how I'd use a remote control for a hand-held GPS in an airplane, but maybe it's an answer to the potential problem of a touch-screen being hard to use in turbulence.

The web site for this is http://ifly.adventurepilot.com/

Is that what they call people with all those pens in the shirt pocket..........I just thought they were smart


W.

[cessna170bdriver]

Pardon my being so anal, but this is an EXCELLENTexample of a new thread being called for...

...

Is that what they call people with all those pens in the shirt pocket..........I just thought they were smart


W.

Actually I'm a bit less anal than some, as I put my pens* directly into my pocket (to the occasional consternation of my laundress. ) The really hard-core guys use a pocket protector...

*(No pencils... No need for erasers; I only make mistakes on the computer )

[jrenwick]

At Oshkosh this year I learned there's another solution to display weather radar in some areas without the costly XM subscription. "Skyradar" is an app for iPad or iPhone or iTouch that displays your position in reference to aviation waypoints, airspace, etc. The same company (Radenna, http://www.skyscope.net/) sells a $1200 ADS-B receiver that transfers weather information, including NEXRAD radar images broadcast by the FAA to the map displayed on the Skyradar app. The Ifly700 guy said they're going to support this device at some point.

The FAA has NEXRAD radar in its ADS-B signal only for certain areas of the US, so it isn't as complete a solution as XM weather so far. But this is coming, and it sounds like we won't always have to pay XM to get weather radar images in the cockpit. I'm sure there will be many solutions coming out pretty soon to make the FAA images available to pilots.

I have a cousin who's very interested in the Radenna ADS-B receiver, and if he ends up buying it, I may have some pireps on it.

[GAHorn]

Pardon my being so anal, but this is an EXCELLENTexample of a new thread being called for...

...

It's not anal, but it's an increased workload/example of how complicated life can be made for a moderator who is "out of town" for a while. I just got home yesterday and (because my laptop died while travelling) just now checked the forums. I agree, Miles, that a new thread should be made of this subject. The situtation is that it's easy to "split" a topic into seperate threads, but it's time consuming to "merge" posts into a new thread that's already been created by a participant. Generally, it is preferable (from the moderator's point-of-view) for the moderators to be notified via email or PM of the request and let them do it.

But Thanks! for the suggestion! I know it was genuine.

[AR Dave]

A fellow pilot, at our airport, bought an Anywhere Map Quadra $595.00
It has all the usual neat stuff + 4.3" color touch screen - Sectionals - Weather - WiFi - Street Navigation

[W.J.Langholz]

Dave

Isn't XM weather another $600.00 ?

W.

[akviperdriver]

My wife surprised me a few days ago with the Garmin Aera 550 for our anniversary. (Sure sign of an awesome wife!) The first thing I did was buy the AirGizmo panel dock for it and moved the power from our old yolk mount. Our neighbor bought a 550 about two months ago, so we had already been impressed with it. We've been messing around with ours now, and are completely in love with it.

True, it doesn't have the XM capability, but we live in Alaska and we wouldn't get the XM coverage anyway. If we do move back down to the "lower 48", then we would definately "trade up."

I'll try and post pictures soon of what the panel mount looks like later this week.