Garmin Aerial GPS vs Nuvi vs Bendix King
This is a very difficult subject and one that has
taken many hours of research by all the crew,
especialy me.

We started by checking out the Garmin 196 and
296 models. Great though they are we found that
there just wasn't enough detail for us when flying
at 20-50mph. These units seemed to be designed
for other aircraft flying at higher speeds but for us
there just didn't seem to be the kind of detail that
we needed.

We also looked at other systems that work
on palm top and notebook PC's. But some systems
only did certain maps of the world and not others
so the quest still goes on.

With that said we also looked at the
Bendix-king AV8ER, but sadly they didn't have
that one in stock when we went so we will
have to look another day.

It was only when I was messing about with my
car satnav that I put it into offroad mode that I
noticed that it could be used for aerial
navigation. We have used it a couple of times
and it seems to work very well indeed. The only
problem is that there is no airspace on it which
means that we still have to fly with a map, but
then you're supposed to anyway. We use the
airmaps to plan the route then put it into
Google Earth and then transfer it as a route to
the Nuvi 770. It's a bit of a faff but it seems to
work for the time being. We are still waiting to
see the Bendix-King.