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Article: Garmin's G600: no instructions needed: the G1000 and Entegra may be the big dogs in EFIS, but the new G600 has just the right screen size at an affordable price. Operation is simple and elegant.(Product/service evaluation)
- Article from:
- The Aviation Consumer
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Sometime during the brief history of glass cockpits for little airplanes, it seems to have been decided that the displays themselves should be as large as possible--great yawning computer screens rather than the watch-like steam gauges they're designed to replace. We're not quite sure this is a human factors triumph, to be honest.
For one thing, the big screens tend to dominate the pilot's attention to the exclusion of actually looking out the window for things like pitch cues, bank angles and other airplanes. If you don't believe that, pop the Entegra breaker on some newly minted Cirrus pilots and get to know the face of befuddlement.
Second, Chelton's ...
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Article: Garmin launches Plug N Play Sat-Nav for Your Phone.
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October 4, 2007 ;
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...M2 PRESSWIRE-4 October 2007-Garmin: Garmin launches Plug N Play Sat-Nav for Your Phone(C)1994 ... COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04102007 The satellite navigation company, Garmin has launched a unique, all-in-one software solution that ...
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