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Old March 27th 06, 09:22 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Handheld GPS adaptible to aviation

Robert M. Gary wrote:
If you are looking for something loo cost, consider buying a PDA with a
CF slot and just running something like PocketFMS (its free). You could
also buy a $15 copy of MS streets for it for use in the car too.


Finally got a chance to use the Navman PiN 100 today in flight with
PocketFMS... Works great... Visible during daylight -- unlike my laptop...
With the 2G memory card, I was able to put all the aviation and road maps on
the machine... Unfortunately, the road map software loads extremely slowly
when you have that much configured on the machine... Not sure if it is
better than the aviation GPS units, but it's good enough that I won't be
taking my laptop on every flight with me from now on...