On May 20, 7:54 pm, Newps wrote:
Paul Tomblin wrote:
In a previous article, Charles Talleyrand said:

Does anyone know of any reasonable cost GPSs suitable for both street
and aviation use. I'd like to have turn-by-turn directions and be
able to look up com frequencies.

There's no such thing as a "reasonable cost" aviation GPS.

That said, I'm pretty happy with my 296, both in the air and on the
ground. I have the optional car kit that gives you a charger cord with a
speaker for spoken turn-by-turn directions, a CD with detail maps, and a
bean-bag mount so that I can throw it on the dash of a rental car after I
arrive at the destination airport.

I'll second that. I've used two separate programs on my PDA for
driving, Mapopolis and Pocket Map Navigator, with Mapopolis being much
better. The 296 is every bit as good, I was suprised it was as good as
it is being as it's primary function is aviation. The 296 gets the nod
as the GPS is built in and an all in one unit is simply more stable than
the PDA. I hardly use my PDA anymore.

I would recommend WingX for the aviation software, and Tomtom for the
street software, both running on the pocketpc.