GPS Compass Displays

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Do most hand held GPS compass displays indicate true or magnetic track?

(I understand some are loaded with magnetic variation but I have a new Garmin 496 and the instruction manual appears quite non-discript on this)

What's the latest on the world going to true as a datum rather than magnetic?

Regards

[Bushfiva]

496 works with auto mag var, true, grid and user mag var as you wish. See page 121. My own GPS has the same options but names them differently.

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Thanks Bushfiva, I hadn't found that gen on p121. I'm trying to put forward a briefing on navigation for glider pilots this winter and wanted to highlight some of the problems with GPS.

Best regards