Hi,
I've had an Aera 500 for over a year, and am more than happy with it. Never had an issue with it, and it's seen at least 80 hours of use in the air.
I found it a little tricky to get to grips with, But after a couple of hours of use, well at home with it. There's nothing I can think of on the dislike side with it really. Nifty little unit. Good battery performance, Excellent European database, Icludes most farm strips, and parachuting/gliding/microlight strips, On the routes I've used it with, there's been nothing missed that are enroute that are on the UK 500mil charts.
Love the touch for info on any feature, including freq's etc, and alos particulary usefull I found is setting up custom time/distance to infringing CAS.
Having set mine up for a PA28-161, the only irritating issue I've found is the thing telling me to change tanks every 30 mins... which I guess in the big scheme of things isn't a bad thing...
Nifty little unit for the cost
