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Old 16th Aug 2009, 10:42
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I've experimented with my Navigo car satnav with TomTom software installed hoping it may have been of some use in showing me extra detail on road names (for traffic spotting). Our built-in Bendix aviation GPS is great but only shows major road numbers (ie A34, M3 etc).

The major problem for me with TomTom was that the map zoom function cannot be switched off so even if you zoom out when airborne - the software "auto zooms" back in after around 10-20 seconds. You don't really want to be hitting the "-"button every few seconds while trying to fly the aeroplane as well.

I am investigating installing the Memory Map CAA charts on my Navigo so I can have a cheap backup to my chart nav in an aircraft with no inbuilt GPS.

Memory Map can
apparently work on many car satnavs but requires some "adjustment" to the registry/desktop on products built by Navigo. Not sure if this is case with other manufacturers devices.

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