I've been using the 695/696 for about 18 months now and really like it. The only problem I found was that the road and town info was sparse and not very accurate in places. But uploading a SD card with Garmin City Navigator NT 2009 transformed that and now I have more detail than on the good old Skymap. I particularly like how easy it is to link via usb and upload flight plans and waypoints that have been built in the Memory Map CAA 250k software i have on the PC.