i have a garmin 296, but it has the asia pacific intt'l region only. anyone know a cheap way of geting the firmware for africa?
Check the Garmin website, for most units all you need to do is to 'update' the database with a different region. This means your original region is lost. If you do this, back up any data you have on there, such as personally input waypoints first. Also be aware, that the Atlantic database which has Namibia on it, only shows a couple of airports in Nam. Great fun inputting all the other coordinates by hand
On a different note, buy an external antenna. Satellite reception isn't the greatest there and with the unit mounted on the yoke it's easily lost, which can lead to some interesting moments
Attaching the external antenna solves the issue.
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