What makes me bring it up is you can get a remote gyro and use it as a true gyro backup (someone earlier mentioned the flight instruments backup capabilities of the garmin)
It also does this neat thing where it superimposes your position on the enroute chart.
Plus all the XM weather stuff, terrain avoidance, blah blah blah. The database updates are also a whole lot cheaper.
Anyhow, I'm in the market for a more capable aviation GPS to replace my Airmap 1000. I'm torn between this and the 496. Frankly, I'm leaning towards these guys. Seems like it's a little better as a strictly aviation GPS although the Garmin is probably nicer overall.
It's a little off topic but I thought the gyro capability was relavant.
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