Mark Kolber wrote:
Ian Shere wrote:
Don, I've toyed with buying a handheld with Nav in it for years. When I became a CFI I thought, "Now I can justify it!" But never did - the school has one if I really need it, but no way I'd really want to have to rely on that tiny screen to do nav, let alone fly an approach! :-) I'd be trusting iFly to do it if it came to that. To that end, I purchased extra batteries for my Stratux and tablet so that I always have power.
Feel the same way as you. Years ago I decided to get a handheld radio. When I thought about the difference between a VOR or LOC/ILS on a handhekd radio and a GPS, I decided to save my money for the GPS.
How many years ago? The handheld GPS I bought was a brand new Lowrance Airmap 100 :D
Airmap 100 !!! Yow! Good for you! I missed that one, but navigated all over the eastern half of the US and Ontario with an Airmap 500 before jumping on the 2000C when it came out. I loved those Lowrance GPSs. (They both still work.) My first aviation GPS, before the 500, was a PalmPilot app called "Fly," the first to have moving sectional charts. It used an external GPS plugged into the PalmPilot. Lowrance's design philosophy was a lot like Adventure Pilot's--pilot-centered, relatively intuitive, shallow menus, and bulletproof.