Portable Electronics 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 … By Bill Cox
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 … By John D. Ruley
Portable Electronics 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 … By Bill Stein
Portable Electronics 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 … By John D. Ruley
Portable Electronics Zaon PCAS XRX Zaon’s PCAS (portable collision-avoidance system) XRX is “the first ever portable, passive, stand-alone collision-avoidance system for … By John D. Ruley
Portable Electronics Staying Safe Remember when CB radios were actually useful? Like CBs and just about everything originally intended for emergency purposes, many of … By Tim Kern
Portable Electronics Mercury Computer Systems VistaNav If you’re like me—a pilot who mainly flies airplanes with “steam gauge” instruments that look increasingly out of … By John D. Ruley
Portable Electronics 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 … By Joe Shelton
Portable Electronics Garmin GPSMAP 396 Fourteen years ago, when I met Tim Casey of Garmin International, we were at the Paris Air Show, and Carl … By Douglas Colby
Portable Electronics Garmin GPSmap 296 I count myself lucky that I’m allowed to fly with virtually all the new portable GPSs, and I’m … By Douglas Colby