Thanks for the story Brian. I was swaying with the idear of getting something cheaper and you just convinced me to get the "real thing" when it comes to GPS for aviation.
Logging on to Garmin WEB page now...................................................... :-) regards Barry Kruyssen Cairns, Australia RAA 19-3873 k...@bigpond.com http://www.users.bigpond.com/kr2/kr2.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Kraut To: KRnet Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:14 PM Subject: RE: KR> GPS I have been using a Garmin Etrex Legend for a while. It works great and is a whole lot cheaper than aviation units. There was the time though when I was flying back from somewhere and the weather started looking pretty bad. I checked the AWOS at a nearby airport and got the dreaded "Lightning in all sectors" in the comments section just as I saw a bolt that was probably 30 miles away but looked like it was right by wingtip. The thunderstorms in Florida pop up out of nowhere pretty quick sometimes. As I was franticly typing in the name of the closest town to the airport since the airports are not in the database on the unit and hoping I could fly towards the town and see the airport I was wishing that I had sprung the extra couple hundred bucks for a GPS with an aviation database. That is not the first time I had wished that either. I will have a 396 before next summer's thunderstorm season with XM weather. Brian Kraut Engineering Alternatives, Inc. www.engalt.com
