Sale Garmin aera 796 Portable Touchscreen Aviation Navigators

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Garmin Aera 796 Portable Touchscreen Aviati Navigators , Escort Passport 8500 X50 Radar And Laser Detector , Beltr Ics Vector V995 Radar Detector , Beltr Ics Vector V940 Radar Detector , 9escort Passport 8500 X50 Radar And Laser Detector , Escort Inc 0109500 6 Passport 9500ix Radar Detector , Cobra Xrs 9970g Voice Alert 15 Band Radar , Cobra Xrs 9945 Voice Alert 15 Band Radarlaser Detector , Beltr Ics Rx65 Red Professi Al Series Radar Detector , Beltr Ics Vector V955 Radar Detector , Escort Passport 9500ix Radarlaser Detector Black , Jensen Nav102 Gps Navigati System , Rand Mcnally Tripmaker Rvnd 5510 5 Inch Rv Gps , Loc8tor Plus Pack , Clari Nz500 7 In Dash Single Din Touchscreen Dvdcdmp3usb Receiver Built In N, Delorme Earthmate Pn 40 Waterproof Hiking Gps , Kenwood Kna G610 Add Navigati Box 4 In Dash M Itors , Fluke 115 Compact True Rms Digital Multimeter , Equus 3130 Innova Diagnostic Code Scanner , Equus 3140 Innova Diagnostic Code Scanner , Garmin's most visionary portable GPS yet, the aera 796 features a unique 3DVision perspective view of the topography beneath your aircraft. With a choice of portrait or landscape orientation, the aera 796's "virtual reality" flight graphics can be framed with GPS-derived indications of ground track, altitude, groundspeed, vertical speed, and turn indication-all updated 5 times per second. The large 7-inch hi-res touchscreen brings tap-and-go simplicity to navigation. And geo-referenced FliteCharts, IFR Enroute Chrts, VFR Sectional Charts, SafeTaxi diagrams, AOPA Airport Directory, and more, all come pre-loaded! A built-in digital document viewer expands the unit's utility as an electronic flight bag (EFB), letting you view an entire approach at a glance. You can add airways, satellite weather with NEXRAD, and XM audio entertainment. The aera 796 is the future in your flight bag.
This review is from: Garmin aera 796 Portable Touchscreen Aviation Navigators with 3D Vision (Electronics)
Unlike the trouble free Garmin 696 when it came out 3 years ago, the Garmin 796 has been riddled with software issues. I have about 50 hours now on it. I was one of the first to buy it several months ago. A month ago I was ready to return mine. There were too many bugs. In addition to running too hot to touch in my airplane in the afternoon sun, there were a number of menu items that were included in the 696 that were missing from the 796 such as measuring distance between two points and rubber banding of flight plan legs. I sent Garmin my list of problems with the unit. They paid attention and now with system 2.3 the bugs, as far as I can tell, are down to four: the flight logging which was so useful on the 696 is totally intermittent in its logging of flights: the data logging doesn't separate out individual flights as it does on the 696: sometimes the flight plan is not displayed on the map after a flight plan is entered; and finally sometimes while scrolling through the XM channels, the whole unit freezes and needs to be rebooted. However, I'm not willing to send mine back just yet. While the pages are not set up as conveniently as in the 696, I have found that I can get around much,faster than with the buttons of the 696. Garmin added some new shortcut menu features with System 2.3, and a new system is forthcoming. I haven't had the heating issue, since I got a new exchange unit. I recommended some upgrades that could make navigating the screens easier. Garmin support has been very open to suggestions. When the 696 came out, I quickly was able to enthusiastically recommend it. While at present I cannot recommend purchase of the 796, if Garmin continues to fix the problems that make it unreliable for use in the cockpit, I hope to be able to update this review with a positive recommendation in the not too distant future.