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Old 16th May 2012 | 22:38
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mikehallam
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The ordinary vanilla AWARE is pretty damned good.

Got me out of serious trouble two years ago in nav on the spot, out of 20 miles of low cloud. Then last year flew well down into, & back from France inc. missing all the no-go bits around Paris whilst dodging cloud and rain on & off the preferred route.

Personally its less cluttered screen, no need to plot anything in, the (almost) impossibility of pressing the wrong tit in the air and the swordfish type nav. needle makes it an excellent nav aid.

Battery is OK if one forgets to plug into the a/c 12 volts source, or when I sometimes use it in a microlight without volts.

Mind you I do have a chart and an old Garmin with GSpeed and true track on board.

mike hallam.
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