Re: Avmap 4 GPS - anyone knows anything about it???

[Jay Honeck]

> I've finally located the manuals at
>
> http://www.pilotmall.com/page/1/PROD/26/17390

Mary and I own (and LOVE) the AvMap EKP-IIIC, the predecessor to the EKP-IV.

We played with the IV extensively at OSH this year, and I fell in love with
it. It's smaller, thinner -- yet still has a BIGGER, brighter color screen
than the III -- and the controls are more intuitive. It can also be
displayed either "portrait" or "landscape" -- a trick the III can't perform.

Unfortunately, Lowrance was running a fantastic deal on their 2000C at the
show (they gave me an absurd trade-in allowance for my old, partially
functional Airmap 300), so we opted to buy the 2000C and put it on the right
yoke for the co-pilot.

The IV is a fantastic product, and I hope to obtain one, perhaps at OSH '06?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Mitty]

<snip>
> Basically I am looking for a very good VFR GPS. Especially now that
> Jepp have dropped their Flitemap product, so there *appears* to be no
> way to display charts containing elevation data on a moving map GPS.

Depending on your budget, you might be interested in
ChartCase running on the Motion LS800. It's the same
screen, I think, as the AvMap IV and is pretty spectacular.
I'm not sure about the size; I think the AvMap is thinner.

ChartCase gives you a complete desktop flight planner plus
all the NACO charts (hi, low, WAC, sectional) and plates for
the US, all georeferenced. Even the airport diagrams are
georeferenced.

On top of that, V3.0 will give you synthesized flight
instruments and georeferenced LandSat imagery. You can
actually fly "contact" above the clouds, watching the lakes
& forests go by underneath!

And, yes, there is a TAWS screen and a WXWORX option.

http://www.flightprep.com/rootpage.php?page=HomeEFB

seattleavionics.com just introduced an apparently-similar
product, but I am not familiar with it. I was/am a beta
tester for ChartCase 3.0. No pay. No freebies. But it's fun.

[Darrel Toepfer]

Peter wrote:

> The only way I know of to get a GPS moving map with charts showing
> elevations is

http://www.pocketfms.com has terrain and now allows for user scanned
charts as well. Oh, and the charts are free, donations accepted...

[Mitty]

On 11/23/2005 3:58 PM, Peter wrote the following:
>
> I am in the UK.
>

Oops. All that NACO stuff is not much good, then.

> Yes, there are various Tablet (WinXP) devices. Some of
the 800x600
> ones are compact enough, but then (for European coverage) one has to
> run Windows based software, which usually looks poor in 800x600.
>
>

Yes. I am waiting for a small form factor 1024x768 screen
from Motion or someone. "LS1000" maybe.

If you are thinking about this route, be sure to test fly
the computer screen. I have an HP TC1100 and it is very
difficult to read in the cockpit, though I think it is as
good as other non "View Anywhere" screens. I think you will
want the view-anywhere type design. (The AvMap IV screen is
excellent BTW; a friend just bought one and I got to play
with it a bit.)

HTH.