Crazy technolgy and all In my A150K !!
When I bought my first GPS, A Trimble FLightmate way back in 1990, my dad about fell over backwards, thinking the Trimble was crazy technology for a Cherokee 140. My father retired flying corportate jets all over the world, but some of his best flying adventures were back in the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, flying DC-3, Twin Bonanza Excaliburs all over the US. He said he wished he had GPS technology back then, when flying over the Rocky Mountains, at night, during Winter... Shortly before my dad passed away, I bought a Garmin 196... My dad then said, I wish I had that technology back in the 1970s when flying the Grumman G-2... It only had inertial nav and he was flying that jet into Russia and other European airports (at night, in Winter, in snow and bad weather) but the 196 impressed the heck out of Pop.
Man, if he could have seen the Garmin 396, he peobably would have though he had died and gone to Heaven... Since my dad is there now, he's probably hollering at me very hard saying "Hey, you ain't seen nothing yet!"
I will probably get the 396 since I can get the family plan on XM with my current subscription.
Thanks for the information.
Roy,
5TA6, San Antonio Sectional
