Might be a winner...

www.pacific-coast-avionics.com/detail/9 ... ING/AV8OR/

That looks pretty cool. I went to the site to check it out and was impressed.
I wonder how it stacks up against the Garmin-396

I recently had a chance to check out the AV8OR. It is an impressive unit. The touch screen feature really makes scrolling a snap and the screen graphics are excellent... The large screen is great for us folks who wear glasses.


http://www.av8or.com

hmmm... less expensive then a Garmin 496 too

Desert185 wrote:Might be a winner...

www.pacific-coast-avionics.com/detail/9 ... ING/AV8OR/

Does it have "Terrain " like the 296 ? Does it have a Navigation Page like the Garmin 296 /396 or 496 ? How`about the HSI ? In looking at the pictures on the internet it appears that they have adapted a ground unit to fly ???

182 STOL driver wrote:Does it have "Terrain " like the 296 ? Does it have a Navigation Page like the Garmin 296 /396 or 496 ? How`about the HSI ? In looking at the pictures on the internet it appears that they have adapted a ground unit to fly ???

Has all of the above except HSI. I've had one for about a month and only been able to fly with it once. The touch screen is very cool. You can punch up any designator for intersection, airport, vor, whatever via a qwerty style touch pad keyboard. No scrolling through identifiers etc. When I get a chance to fly it more and do a pirep I'll post it here... Oh, just received the wxworks receiver for the xmweather, so I need to try that out also. (The AV80R includes a 250.00 coupon towards the wxworks receiver)

westernpilot wrote:You can punch up any designator for intersection, airport, vor, whatever via a qwerty style touch pad keyboard. No scrolling through identifiers etc.

I have a 496 and love it, but that ^^ is my main complaint. The text input style is seriously antiquated. While it does have a smart search, and narrows down the possible identifiers as you punch in more characters, you're still scrolling through the letters of the alphabet with a joypad. A simple pop-up onscreen qwerty keyboard would be a fine addition.

It sounds like B-K is doing their homework with interface design.

182 STOL driver wrote:

Desert185 wrote:Might be a winner...

www.pacific-coast-avionics.com/detail/9 ... ING/AV8OR/

Does it have "Terrain " like the 296 ? Does it have a Navigation Page like the Garmin 296 /396 or 496 ? How`about the HSI ? In looking at the pictures on the internet it appears that they have adapted a ground unit to fly ???

The evaluation I read essentially said that it is extremely mediocre compared to a Garmin unit. Still liking my 296.

BTW, used the new version of Mapsource Topo in AK this summer. More detail. I like it and will purchase the new CD.

Sorta' apples and oranges. The AV80R is 1/3 the cost of a 496 w/o the WxWorx receiver. I like the idea of Honeywell B/K providing Garmin some competition, even if the products are substantially different.

Aviation Consumer review here http://www.aviationconsumer.com/issues/ ... 817-1.html