Garmin 496 Training

Jim Burns wrote:
Let's get rid of the wires. Rechargeable or AA battery powered compact
remote mountable Bluetooth GPS and WX/XM radio transceivers? Garmin
already makes the G10, a little handy dandy Bluetooth GPS smaller than
a large pack of gum. WXWorx already makes a Bluetooth Weather and XM
radio transceiver.

How do the Bluetooth devices react when you press the PTT button and hurl
several watts of amplitude-modulated fire into the ether from an antenna
that's only a few feet away?

If you have a metal airplane, at least the COM antenna is on the other
side of the metal, but I still wonder how well it would work.

Matt Roberds

wrote:

How do the Bluetooth devices react when you press the PTT button and hurl
several watts of amplitude-modulated fire into the ether from an antenna
that's only a few feet away?


Fine.

I flew with a Bluetooth WxWorx setup for several months with no problems.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

I flew with a Bluetooth WxWorx setup for several months with no problems.

That was one of the great temptations about the Palm-based weather
solutions that were available at OSH -- no wires! However, I spoke
with *just* enough people who claimed that they had problems with
Bluetooth in flight to steer me back to the old "wired" versions.

If I can ever get the plane up to our avionics shop (I had to scrub
Tuesday, due to freezing fog), I think panel-docking the 496 into an
AirGizmo (and having all the wiring neatly behind the panel) will truly
make it a much nicer product. It won't make the screen any bigger, but
it will (a) give us XM radio through our headsets, and (b) get a mess
of wiring off of the co-pilot's yoke -- both very good things.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

The Bluetooth part of my FlightPrep package is rock solid. It's the
windows/HD combination that sucks.
Jim

Garmin's competitors are a bunch of weenies.

Boy, isn't that the truth? Lowrance, with all of its nautical might,
has proven to be nothing but a bottom feeder (and I own and like a
2000c, BTW). And AvMap may as well go back to Italy, because they
clearly don't understand marketing in the US.

It's really a shame, cuz without competition Garmin can just keep
stuffing their over-priced dinky x96's down our throats, knowing that
they're the only weather game in town.
--

Strange that no one has mentioned the King Skymap IIIC

Big screen, intuitive software, terrain info, etc.

Cheers:

Paul
N1431A

Strange that no one has mentioned the King Skymap IIIC

Big screen, intuitive software, terrain info, etc.

Stranger still (and sad to say) -- I'd never even heard of it before
now. I had to Google it to even see what it looks like.

How come King wasn't pushing these things out the door at OSH?
Wouldn't you think that even ONE of the dozens of vendors there MIGHT
have mentioned it to me?

Oh, wait -- it doesn't have live weather. Bingo -- it's out of
contention.

Too bad. Just another AvMap.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote:

I flew with a Bluetooth WxWorx setup for several months with no problems.

That was one of the great temptations about the Palm-based weather
solutions that were available at OSH -- no wires! However, I spoke
with *just* enough people who claimed that they had problems with
Bluetooth in flight to steer me back to the old "wired" versions.

I should have said "no *Bluetooth* problems."

I had plenty of the usual Windows glitches.

--
Dan

"The opposite of science is not religion; the opposite of science is wishful
thinking."
-John Derbyshire

Jay, live weather is NOT trivial. And for all your griping about
Garmin's lack of innovation, they were the innovator on that one (for
handhelds). Early on cockpit too. And they did it RIGHT (satellite to
plane, NOT ground antennae to plane like King did it).

I don't think anyone else does satellite to plane weather, EXCEPT
Garmin, do they?

Frank Stutzman wrote:
In rec.aviation.ifr Sam Spade wrote:


My Garmin 195 has full IFR approaches. Garmin figured out later that
wasn't a good idea.

I turned the old thing on. It has one fix prior to the FAF, which is
usually (but not always) the IF. The Garmine 295, and onward only have
the FAF (and runway ot MAP).

Doug wrote:

Jay, live weather is NOT trivial. And for all your griping about
Garmin's lack of innovation, they were the innovator on that one (for
handhelds). Early on cockpit too. And they did it RIGHT (satellite to
plane, NOT ground antennae to plane like King did it).

I don't think anyone else does satellite to plane weather, EXCEPT
Garmin, do they?

You mean for handhelds I guess. There are several vendors piping NEXRAD
for MFDs.