Garmin 695/696

[ghatch]

Paul,

Do you have a pic of the 696 in your plane. Is the 696 in place of the 396/430 combo? I'd love to see how that fits. I just cut the mock up panel for (2) HX and 495 plus a std radio stack. (RV7)

Thanks,
Gerry Hatch

[Ironflight]

Originally Posted by ghatch

Do you have a pic of the 696 in your plane. Is the 696 in place of the 396/430 combo? I'd love to see how that fits. I just cut the mock up panel for (2) HX and 495 plus a std radio stack. (RV7)

Check post #31 of this thread...

[LyleM]

Does the $3250 for the 696 include the XM antenna and cable. thanks Lyle

[N941WR]

Originally Posted by N200PF

Well I'm designing my panel now with dual AFS and a garmin stack. The 696 will be easy to fit in but it raises another question in my mind. With everything this new unit does, I'm not feeling great about putting money in to the good old 430W that was going to be at the center of my stack. The 696 seems to kick it's arse but I need the 430 for IFR.

I can only imagine that Garmin will fix that problem in fairly sort order and build out an IFR certified relplacement for the 430W with some of the 696 functionality. I only hope they're nice to us and allow some kind of upgrade path...and make it the same size so we can swith them out!

Anyone heard anything they can talk about?

- Peter

Peter,

This brings up an interesting point for Garmin, I suspect, but don't know, that the hand helds are a bit like experimental airplanes in that they can do whatever they want and don't have to TSO the product. Whereas the 430's need to be TSO'ed, thus their development cycle is more involved, read, expensive and time consuming.

If they TSO'ed the thing, I would redo my panel in a heartbeat and get my instrument ticket but I doubt that will ever happen.

Well maybe not, as I still use the auto database on my 496.

[SteinAir]

Originally Posted by LyleM

Does the $3250 for the 696 include the XM antenna and cable. thanks Lyle

Yes!

Cheers,
Stein

[lucky]

Does it use the same connector/wiring scheme as the x96 line of portables use so that if you have a 296/396 wired into your panel you can re-use it for the 696?

[SteinAir]

Nope...but that's not a bad thing. The connector on this one is designed much better (and while remotely similar in appearance), it's much more robust, the pins are good and heavy. The wiring itself though is very simple (even simpler than the previous units). Putting this one in place of a previous GPS should be very easy. I'll take a close up pic of the connector this weekend if I have a chance.

Cheers,
Stein

[smokyray]

Nicely done Paul! Now if you could get Garmin to donate a few to JAARS and MAF. They could really use them

Smokey
HR2


JAARS PC6 Indonesia

www.maf.org
http://www.jaars.org/aviation04/avia_home.shtml

[N395V]

Originally Posted by SteinAir

Yes!

Cheers,
Stein

Stein,

Are you going to be selling them?

[L.Adamson]

Originally Posted by N395V

Stein,

Are you going to be selling them?

Caught this on the main page:

Talked to Stein yesterday...he would like folks to know they can buy a Garmin 696 through him for the same price as anywhere else <g>. Great guy.