John Baker
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John Baker
It seems promising that I am actually going to get a private certificate, so I'm thinking I would like to have a GPS for my 1978 Warrior II. I have never used a GPS. My airplane is IFR certified with all the steam gages and cheap replacement radios that actually work most of the time.
I'm 66 and not all that sophisticated when it comes to todays technologies, but I can usually blunder my way through most of the simpler ones.
So I'm wondering what y'all would recommend that would not be all that expensive. I could do a Garmin 430 panel mount, although I would really like to do something for less money, much less. I'm thinking more along the portable lines. The new $3,000.00+ Garmin seems like overkill for a non IFR jr. pilot. After reading this months AOPA magazine it just seems like it is geared more to the IFR community, having many features that a VFR hamburger chaser would never use.
My aircraft is a tie down, security is not all that great. Someone was messing with my plane just B 4 Thanksgiving. The cover was not the way I left it at all. Another reason not to go with panel mounted gear.
Any opinions would be appreciated.
John
I'm 66 and not all that sophisticated when it comes to todays technologies, but I can usually blunder my way through most of the simpler ones.
So I'm wondering what y'all would recommend that would not be all that expensive. I could do a Garmin 430 panel mount, although I would really like to do something for less money, much less. I'm thinking more along the portable lines. The new $3,000.00+ Garmin seems like overkill for a non IFR jr. pilot. After reading this months AOPA magazine it just seems like it is geared more to the IFR community, having many features that a VFR hamburger chaser would never use.
My aircraft is a tie down, security is not all that great. Someone was messing with my plane just B 4 Thanksgiving. The cover was not the way I left it at all. Another reason not to go with panel mounted gear.
Any opinions would be appreciated.
John
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