Aviation Safety Magazine Profiles the Garmin 696's Top Safety Features

[rapidcolt]

I'm bummed about the horrible battery life of this thing. I know this thing is doing A LOT of different things, but why is its battery life 1.5 hours, compared to an ipad which runs for 8?

[mechmove]

sounds like a winner. BTW, just a word of caution.. technology won't prevent all accidents. If it did, flying about be 100% safe all the time. In fact toys like this can give you a false sense of confidence, better just to remember the basics of flying. That said,I love technology in the cockpit, things are so much easier..!

[forces077]

what aircraft is he sitting in?

[zero2cool0]

I recentley got to use one of these bad boys when i went flying with a friend of my families. Although i only used it in the car ride to the airport(the airplane we were flying already had a gwiz100) i was still very impressed with what i saw.

[stevenpam]

Wow, very nice. I'd better start saving... not sure if Santa's budget stretches that far :-)

Thanks Jeb, for your nice explanation. But what's the punchline?

[lucaberta68]

Just ordered my own Garmin 695, the Atlantic edition for us on this side of the pond, the other day... resistance was futile! :-D

Looking forward to using the vertical profile with terrain mode, looks like an awesome feature to have. Think of how many CFITs we could have avoided with such a feature...

Ciao, Luca

[aescobar32]

can these GPS devices be conected to a transponder somehow and work as a TCAS?

[lucaberta68]

If you fly in the US and have a TIS-enabled mode S transponder like the Garmin GTX330, then the answer is yes, as you will be able to display TIS-derived data on the GPS screen, much like it was on the Garmin 496.

Also, products such as the Zaon XRX should be able to work too, as they "emulate" the TIS data by using their passive ranging technology, less precise than TIS but nonetheless quite useful.

I am not aware of any active TCAS device that would interface with a Garmin GPS.

Ciao, Luca

[AirDude1213]

Thank you for this, helps improves my decisions.