g'day threado
Threado!
How nice to spot you in print. Just browsing. I have a magellan bought about seven years ago and it reads nicely thanks. Clipping along in the old Boynngg before I retd I was always amazed to see how positionally accurate and speed accurate it was in relatively poor signal conditions. Vertical dimension good enough to figure out which Flight Level and give food for thought in the hotel. Mine is just a basic hiker version but when I was private flying (Piper not Cessna) it'd be in my bag or velcro'd somewhere safe and useful. The more I checked it out the more confident I became that it could be helpful one day. KO Sally my other half has a later model backpacker's Garmin with virtually identical performance. On a different note I'm never surprised to find technology in unusual places. For example there was radar in Fairey Swordfish. Not to mention ashtrays in the cockpit once and I have a Boyyngg pilot's jacknife complete with bottle opener and corkscrew!
Best Rgds
The "E"