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Goodbye, AvMap...
Well, we've now flown behind the Garmin 496 for 10 weeks, and around 20
flights, and we've decided that -- despite having an awful screen and a slow processor -- we'll keep it. The fantastic benefits of having on-board weather simply outweigh the painful truth that the 496 represents a bad compromise in an aviation GPS display. We thought about keeping our favorite GPS -- the AvMap EKP-IIIC Gold -- on the copilot's yoke, but we've already got the Lowrance 2000c planted there. The 2000c represents the best value in GPS today, with a screen nearly as large as the AvMap's, at a fraction of the price. It's also current technology and a current model, which means that it will be supported (I hope!) by Lowrance for a while longer. Thus, sadly, we've decided to sell the AvMap. If only those stupid *******s at AvMap had come out with XM weather, like they promised at OSH '05, we'd have kept the unit forever. It is still hand's down, head & shoulders the finest moving map display I've seen in a portable GPS -- it's a far better display than either the 2000c or the 496 -- and we hate to part with it. Buy I've simply got no use for it, now. It's on Ebay right now. See it here, if you're interested: http://makeashorterlink.com/?W186264FD -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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