What GPS do you use?

[mhorowit]

I've got a Magellan 315 handheld and load it using DataSend and an aviation db I got off the 'net. I have an external battery.
It works fine, but it was designed for hiking and I'm wondering if I should upgrade to something just a little more reliable. The 315 cost $125.

What GPS (if any) do you use? - Mike

[Howard Wilson]

(G)ood (P)ointing (S)ystem. Finger on sectional ;-)

[taylorcraftbc65]

GPS

I'm going to buy a Garmin 195. They are a bit expensive at
$1000.00, but they feature a satelite driven 5 pack of instruments
that are very useful when coming through the deck if you fly
VFR on top.
I will have it in the plane when I come down to La Grange in
May. I'll let everyone know how well it works then.
I'm sorry to read about the problems people are having with the
factory,I hope they are due to the factory's teething problems, and not a lack of ethics. People can always handle "we are still fighting the government over the paperwork on that part" or
"we are backordered at the supplier, and do not know when we are going to get the materials to build the part" better than something that later proves to be a fabrication.
It is far better to fabricate parts that excuses.
Sabrina

[Carl Ellis]

Garmin GPS Pilot III.

It's a nice unit :

1) price is OK
2) does everything I really need
3) no science project with loading another data base

but here are the downsides:

1) 10 hour batterly life (four AA)
2) display is too small for good moving map detail. The only value I get out of the map are the rings for airspace so I can skirt the edge. Otherwise I use bearing and track.

3) update is slow on the moving map
4) the up/down/left/right center button can be a little flakey sometimes. Press left and you go up, that sort of thing. Maybe just me.

[CraigH]

Garmin 295 mounted on the glare shield. Have it powered with the cigarette lighter, the thing goes through batteries too fast to use them.

[mhorowit]

And here I am with some kind of bug... .
I ought to report you to the moderator for that!!! - Mike

Originally posted by Howard Wilson
(G)ood (P)ointing (S)ystem. Finger on sectional ;-)

[Garry Crookham]

I have a Garmin 196. I use it in my Taylorcraft and Fly Baby and at work when ferrying airplanes. I've compared it to the high dollar panel mounted GPS receivers while on ferry flights and found it to be as accurate, and to have almost as many bells and whistles as the Garmin 530/430 series. I actually prefer the 196 over the color Garmin 295 and it is several hundred dollars less expensive. My 196 has been all over the U.S. with me for over a year in many different kinds of airplanes and has worked flawlessly.
A word of caution about the instrument panel display on the 196: it's really not a legal substitute for the required IFR instruments (see FAR 91.205). Also be aware that what appears to be an airspeed indicator is actually displaying groundspeed and the turn indicator has no ball so doesn't provide slip/skid info. You can't fly needle/ball/airspeed IFR with the Garmin 196 panel display.

Garry Crookham
N5112M
Tulsa

[Buck]

4) the up/down/left/right center button can be a little flakey sometimes. Press left and you go up, that sort of thing. Maybe just me.

Nope, mine does that too

[taylorcraft078]

I have a Magellan 315A (aviation version). You aren't missing anything. I have used the aviation features exactly once since I bought it about 3 years ago. Just program in where you are going and some other useful points along the way. Mine is held on the dash with a strip of velcro. The 315 is fine for our purposes.

Dave
N36078 '41 BC-12-65

[Taylor Maid]

I too have a Garmin 195 and it works great! Very user friendly and so far, I haven't found myself surrounded by F-16's due to busting Class B. Anyways, if you are looking for a GPS, Ebay has some great deals. You just have to be patient. The 195's usually go for around $500.

By the way....what's a sectional?

[airacer]

When I make the time to get in the air, I really dont want to look at some darn gadget... I enjoy and appreciate looking out the window Yes when I need to go somewhere, I fly the Bonanza and on occasion look at a Garmin 48, just to confirm where I am (ok and how fast). It has no data base unless I program it into it. I fly NEXT to restricted airspace and through MOA's.
In summation just have fun and fly, the t-cart is and was intended to be a stick and rudder airplane, in the most simple terms.

Cheers,

Jerry

[taylorcraftbc65]

Stick and rudder

Jerry,
Your "other" aircraft is a Bonanza, My "other" aircraft is an ultralight. Therefore my Taylorcraft is to me, as your Bonanza is to you, an aircraft to get there cross-country, VFR on top. If I had electrics, I'd do it at night too.
By the way, the absence of a "ball" on my "five pack" is no problem. I fly gliders, and a yaw string is very sensitive, and
reacts faster to boot. Sabrina

[CraigH]

Ron and Sabrina,
I'm with you guys. Yeah, I keep my GPS turned off for local fun, low and slow, game spotting, etc. But my airplane is also used as a cross country machine - it's the only one I've got. The GPS sure comes in handy since I don't have any other NAV instruments. And since it sits right on the glare shield, I don't have to divert my view out the window to make sure I'm on course.

[Len Petterson]

Gps

I have purchasd a used Garmin 95 and would like to udate my database, does anyone know if and where I can do it over the net? Garmin seams to want to sell me a New one instead.
Len

[Homsie]

I bought a Garmin Vista Etrex model. I can download tripticks from aeroplanner.com to include aviation data. Generally I don't use it to tell me where I am, or how to get where I'm going. I like it for the constant ground speed and constant ETA updating. I find those features to be the most useful.