The manual that Garmin wrote for this unit is despicable. You can't find
anything in it. The manual also contains several inaccuracies.

The 296 itself is beautiful, light weight, and it works very well. It is
missing a few features the 295 had, notably the RMI indicator option. I am
getting about 7 hours of battery life out of a charge.

CJ,

I don't have a 296, just a 196. However, I have played with the 296. If
you go to the HSI page and press menu, you can change the HSI BUG to
indicate BEARING. This essentially gives you an RMI and HSI combined into
one. If I remember correctly the pointer on the EFIS option is BEARING,
which makes it a big RMI for the arc that it covers.

John Bell
www.cockpitgps.com