Any opinions on the new Garmin touch screen portables?

John Baker said:
I think rather than doing the obstacles when I get the money, I will instead sign up for the weather add on.
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Good call - the terrain obstacles really aren't going to change and the other obstacles like towers and such are generally not a serious threat - you probably shouldn't be flying that low anyway.

John Baker said:
The last data base is set to expire later this month. I have no clue what they will want to update that one. This GPS stuff is not cheap. It's starting to make me appreciate my VOR capabilities and the good ol paper charts a whole lot more.
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You are just using it for VFR stuff right?

I've found that updating the database once a year is typically plenty sufficient.....If there is a local procedure that I know changed, then I might do a special update (like when they renamed ALL of the fixes on the ILS 28R approach to MYF a couple years ago)
 
Fearless Tower said:
Good call - the terrain obstacles really aren't going to change and the other obstacles like towers and such are generally not a serious threat - you probably shouldn't be flying that low anyway.



You are just using it for VFR stuff right?

I've found that updating the database once a year is typically plenty sufficient.....If there is a local procedure that I know changed, then I might do a special update (like when they renamed ALL of the fixes on the ILS 28R approach to MYF a couple years ago)
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I agree. Also, if you're going to OSH, I think you may be able to score some free updates there, IIRC.
 
I would love to go to OSH, but it will never happen. One of the great truths about running a small two bit business such as mine is that if you have the time, you don't have the money. If you have the money, you don't have the time.

In my 45 years working in the picture framing industry, I have had a total of two one week vacations. If things are slow, you can not close and risk losing a sale. If things are busy, you have to stay and get the work out.

This is not a government job. I earn a living, but there are absolutely no benefits. But then I also don't have to work like a robotron in a rule governed atmosphere with my whole future planed out for me on paper from day one.

I do not have to listen to numb brained "superiors". I do not have the threat of being fired or laid off from out of the blue. In other words I do not have all the stress most other people have at their 9-5 jobs. I really do not need the vacations, I enjoy what I do for a living.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to have a nice long vacation for say two weeks or so, but I have resigned myself to the fact that the only way out of this is on a gurney.

Even so, I would not trade my lot in life with anyone, it has been, and still is, a darn good one.

John
 
If only you could sell your picture framing services at OSH.... then you'd have the worst of all possible worlds: Being there, unable to actually participate. That's your answer.
 
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