Garmin Aviation GPS

Aircraft maintenance refers to a series of periodic checks which are done after a certain amount of time or usage on all the aircrafts. These are casually referred to in aviation terms as A check, B check which are the lighter checks and are take smaller duration, C check and D check which are the heavier checks and take relatively longer duration.

GPS or the Global positioning system has become one of the irreplaceable components of aviation. These portable handsets are of great help to pilots during flights beside the advances in technology allow them to access weather related and other critical information through them.

Aviation GPS

The GPS technology now comes integrated with the modern all glass cockpits and in some cases installed by licensed market providers. The Aviation GPS makes the aircraft costly by around $20,000 or more. However, considering the benefits, the cost doesn’t stand anywhere in comparison. There are lots of benefits of portable GPS and it provides great supplement to plane’s instrumentation by intuitive, moving map views and navigation overlays. Some of the Aviation features include Terrain page, position data page, taxi diagrams, map page, “direct to” navigation, route page, page on nearest airport, city and flight service, airport criteria and directory information along with various alerts.

The price for these aviation GPS units is around $700 to $2400.

Garmin GPSMAP 696 Aviation GPS

With the split screen functionality or the multi-function display model known as MFD the Garmin GPSMAP 696 takes the portable GPS aviation to the next level. The 696 boasts of a big 7 inch diagonal bright and a high resolution display which when operated in its special split screen mode lets you display instruments and maps simultaneously. Obviously it’s your choice if you wish to use all of the display for maps, weather, terrain, taxiway diagrams or more. The Garmin GPSMAP 696 aviation GPS is for pilots who want to use every feature of this advanced aviation GPS and has room for mounting 8X6 inches device or can use a yoke mount. The pros for 696 GPS are that it has a high resolution terrain alert feature apart from the facility to simultaneously view maps and instruments on a big high resolution screen and an integrated weather display layer and XM satellite weather radio. The cons for Garmin GPSMAP 696 GPS include the big size which may find it difficult to fit in and it would require putting some decent effort to study and come to terms with all its features and controls.