Garmin 696: A Giant Leap Ahead
If you hadn’t noticed, the Garmin 696 is bigger. Anyone who has seen the advertising for Garmin’s new …
Portable Electronics
Choosing Your Handheld
Pilots today are increasingly dependent on electronic navigation and communication equipment: GPS for navigation, satellite radio for weather avoidance and …
Tech Talk: Spot Satellite Personal Tracker
My first exposure to the Spot Satellite Messenger came on a rainy March afternoon when air show pilot Gene Soucy …
Control Vision Anywhere Map XP & ATC
For years now, Control Vision has offered GPS moving-map software on portable devices based on assorted versions of Microsoft …
Zaon PCAS XRX
Zaon’s PCAS (portable collision-avoidance system) XRX is “the first ever portable, passive, stand-alone collision-avoidance system for …
Staying Safe
Remember when CB radios were actually useful? Like CBs and just about everything originally intended for emergency purposes, many of …
Mercury Computer Systems VistaNav
If you’re like me—a pilot who mainly flies airplanes with “steam gauge” instruments that look increasingly out of …
Face Weather With More Confidence
The trip was to be a long one: Watsonville, Calif., to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It was supposed to take about …
Garmin GPSMAP 396
Fourteen years ago, when I met Tim Casey of Garmin International, we were at the Paris Air Show, and Carl …
Garmin GPSmap 296
I count myself lucky that I’m allowed to fly with virtually all the new portable GPSs, and I’m …
