One of the essential parts of any aviation or navigation vehicle is a map. Back in those days navigators rely on their conventional maps and analog compasses to locate its position and to go from point A to point B. Luckily, GPS technology is now available not only to the high funding institutions but even to the entry-level users. GPS maps are now small enough to fit a pocket.

The Garmin 96C (Americas version covers North, Central & South America) is one of the many models to choose from. It operates with a pilot-friendly operating system and powerful features even with a small form factor. This model is for all types of users with a value so low and features fully packed.

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Why buy one for each when you can have it all in one gadget? Garmin specializes in GPS gadgets that are widely known to be top of its class and of multiple use. Finding directions and locating a place has never been easier. One of its latest GPS equipment is the GPSMAP 196. This gadget is a must have not only for pilots but also to nautical navigators and most of all car owners. Yes, this equipment runs in three different modes, in aviation, water and land with stored preferences for each.

Just when you thought you’ve seen everything. The GPSMAP 196 has more tricks up its sleeves just like the turn-by-turn route guidance. While at the streets this nifty equipment dictates your directions on each turn you take. You also get panel page, this gives users the ability to access graphical GPS-derived flight information. Aside from that, it has a logbook function, which enables users to store and record arrival, departure and flight time.

Another great feature every user should be happy about is its speed. Unlike previous portable GPS equipments, the GPSMAP 196 redraws and scrolls the maps twice as fast. Another expected success for Garmin and we will never know what they will come up to next.

Garmin, the leading name in GPS, have come up again with the most technologically advanced mini multi-function display Aviation GPS. Introducing the worlds most highly evolved aviation portable, the Garmin GPSMAP 496 Aviation GPS.

A marvel of technology, the 496 is equipped with a lot of pretty amazing and practical functions that range from a full color screen to satellite weather and terrain alerting. With Garmin 496 Aviation GPS, you can view position on Taxiways as Garmin SafeTaxi data provides detailed taxiway diagrams and position information for over 650 U.S. airports. This preloaded information will help your way through unfamiliar airports with confidence and shows your aircrafts exact position on the field.

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Looking back to the early years of flight technology, aircraft pilots only relied on CAA maps to plot their course and measure the distance, wind direction and strength with the use of a flight computer. Just imagine how hard it was for pilots to be precise and minimize errors every time they go into flight. Good thing, with today’s technology this will never happen again.

Aviation GPS is widely used by most modern aircrafts, which plays a very vital role in an airplane. Low clouds covering the aircrafts were almost impossible to steer clear but with GPS everything can become smoother. With Satellites circling around the globe, transmitting signals to a GPS hardware is a piece of cake. Calculations are almost irrelevant due to its reliability and precision.

With the Aviation GPS, pilots are now more confident no matter how unfamiliar the territory is. During the GPS’s early years only a few were able to own one because of its high cost but these days it is easy to come by an affordable aviation GPS system. Even car companies around the world are vastly utilizing this technology for its benefits. Directions and tracking location problems are a thing of the past thanks to Global Position System.

Around the world when it comes to navigational Technology, Garmin tops the list. There are so many competitors but none has made a bigger name than this company. Its equipments are used by entry-level navigators down to the professional users. To be able to lead the competition the company has put on time and effort in each model they release, thus success is inevitable.

One of its great products is the Garmin 196 (Americas version covers North, Central & South America). This is a perfect portable GPS map that works from air to water to land with accuracy.

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The old adage “the bigger the better” is no longer used that often when it comes to gadgets but in some cases it still applies to a particular device. In the aviation industry precision and accuracy is the main key and hindrances such as smaller screen displays can make a pilot’s life miserable.

GPS maps are widely used in planes around the world and one of which is the Garmin 696 with XM Weather Capability with Americas version covers North, Central & South America.

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The new generation AvMap EKP-IV Aviation GPS is a portable navigation system specially designed for aviators and alike. It features a brilliant and sunlight-viewable 7" color LCD display with compact profile and sleek design. The menu keys are strategically located along the sides of the case to make it easy to operate either in portrait or landscape mode.

The AvMap EKP-IV is equipped with a 128 MB Compact Flash CF for greater versatility in data management. The fully detailed Cartography integrates regional road charts and Jeppesen data. This aviation GPS uses the Jeppesen aeronautical database system as well as the AVIOportolano database that covers over a hundred of airfields. Its advanced navigation functions include full flight planning capability and approaching waypoint alarm; multiple views of full or split screens with data fields navigation data or full map view; import and export capability for flight plans, routes and way points directly from the device to the computer; land elevation with color coded map that shows information on the terrain altitude and a lot more.

The AvMap EKP-IV Aviation GPS can also be integrated with other on-board navigation systems including autopilot, GPS and external antenna.

The AvMap EKP-IV has redefined the portable GPS moving map systems. This revolutionary device brings the aviator's situational awareness to the next level in a portable Aviation GPS device.

The aeronautical market has the best and most advanced GPS technology for so many reasons. Small errors are not a pleasant thing for pilots and it could mean their life. Of all the equipments for aviators the GPS devices are the most important. It keeps track of the location as well as post alerts for obstacles ahead.

The new generation portable systems like the AvMap EKP-IV Aviation GPS (Americas version covers North, Central & South America) is now available for the aeronautical market. Previous models offer small-sized displays that make it so hard for the user to view while on flight.

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