Handheld GPS (Lowrance and pocket flymap)
Hi All,
First if this has already been covered my apologies. Here is my choice.
Im heading to the US shortly and intend picking up a handheld GPS.
My choice is the lowrance 600c or the pocket flymap(i know its only available to purchase in europe)
I have the user manual for the lowrance and it appears to be a handy piece of kit but is it designed and optimsed for the USA eg,the airspace maps for uk and eire might not be as good? the pocket flymap appears to be excellent but is very expensive compared to the 600c. Is the flymap worth the extra just to confirm where you are on the paper map?
And if any one actually owns one or both of these your views on how user friendly they are and any other quibbles (eg screen hard to read, unstable gps signal reception,poor/good battery time or anything at all fire ahead)
If Genghis the engineer reads this - hows the flymap working out?
And finally the unit purchased will be used for only vfr flying in a number of different aircraft so portability is a big issue and so is mounting / securing the unit in each plane.If anyone feels that im ignoring a particular product feel free to recommend but please state why. Thanks in advance