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I just pulled by Skymap IIIc out and relaced it with the Garmine 296.
There are certainly things I like better about the large screen IIIc but I really like the crisp colors of the 296 and the fast update rate. The turn coordinator seems really good and may work in a real IMC emergency. In anycase, I just too it on a test flight from Sacramento to Albuquerque (any excuse to fly right?). One thing I do not like is that if I set the GPS to the 50nm scale (the one I like on long trips) I only see large airports. I really like to know where all the little airports are without having to query the GPS for nearest (I'm in a single engine Mooney). I have tried but cannot find how to configure the anticlutter algorithm to not drop airports. Has anyone else tried this and gotten it to work? -Robert |
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I have a 196, I presume it's the same on the 296:
Go to the Airport tab on the Map setup page, where you can set the zoom level at which different sized airports appear. They are all set to Auto by default, you can set them to appear at any of the zoom levels you please. On the other tabs, you can do the same for all kinds of other map features, like airspace rings, nav aids, roads, and cities. Jeremy "Robert M. Gary" wrote in message om... I just pulled by Skymap IIIc out and relaced it with the Garmine 296. There are certainly things I like better about the large screen IIIc but I really like the crisp colors of the 296 and the fast update rate. The turn coordinator seems really good and may work in a real IMC emergency. In anycase, I just too it on a test flight from Sacramento to Albuquerque (any excuse to fly right?). One thing I do not like is that if I set the GPS to the 50nm scale (the one I like on long trips) I only see large airports. I really like to know where all the little airports are without having to query the GPS for nearest (I'm in a single engine Mooney). I have tried but cannot find how to configure the anticlutter algorithm to not drop airports. Has anyone else tried this and gotten it to work? -Robert |
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