(Aaaagh - first reply lost when PPRuNe decided to log me out when I hit Submit Reply
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Thanks for the feedback so far. It seems to be a choice between the GPS-III and the Skymap-II, which I guess I expected. We're going to go and have a play in Transair at the weekend, but it's not easy to guess if something that's cool in the shop is still so good in the cockpit, so it's good to have some views.
FFF - Money isn't too much of an issue, and the budget just came from skimming through the Harry M. advert and seeing what price caused him to start to sweat. He's a fairly recent PPL with 70-something hours, and is just starting to look at leaving the local area and those familiar airfields visited during the course of the PPL. The club aircraft all have VOR/DME and ADF equipment, but GPS is just something else to hold his hand.
(edit: forgot to ask, what is the difference between an 'Aviation' GPS and an 'Outdoor' GPS such as the 12XL linked above. The aviation ones seem far more expensive - no surprise there - and presumably come with waypoints loaded, but is there any practical difference if you just need position and distance/track to waypoint?)
Oh, and I know that real pilots only navigate using a sextant and one of John Harrison's chronometers...
