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Old 17th May 2011, 14:20
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Plasmech
 
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Thanks Genghis. I have 1000 waypoints and 50 routes available to me with that unit. I can enter waypoints manually, and it's easy enough to get lat/long data for airports, VOR's, intersections, cities and towns. I can also mark no-go areas with waypoints as a make-shift way of avoidance.

I am not planning on actually "flying" this GPS but rather just having it by my side in case I need it on a cross country. If I rely on it too much, or at all really, during my PPL training, I will be basically cheating the system and thus cheating myself.

It was around $210.

This unit is killing two birds with one stone for me though, currently I do not own a trail/hiking GPS and plan to use it for that as well.
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