Another Handheld GPS question

AndyRV7 · #1 09-03-2008, 05:31 AM

I'm still picking my way through the different choices and had another question. My buddy is sending me a Garmin 96 with some dust on it. So I will get my first real hands-on experience this week I hope.

But to the question. I've been comparing the usual suspects (Garmin 495/496, Lowrance 2000 (and 1000), Bendix AV8OR, and the Anywhere Map ATC). I'm narrowing down my choice, but one thing I cannot find too much detail about, AND am a little dismayed by is what appears to be a non-standard airspace boundary marking. Can anyone tell me how the airspace is displayed in any of these units? The only one I could find is the AV8OR, which seems to use various thicknesses of, or outlining around, a solid pink line. Not even a dashed line for Delta! I was really disappointed to see this because it meant the year I just spent figuring out how to recognize things on a sectional is no longer going to be valid (at least with the AV8OR). Can anyone shed some light on this? Do all manufacturers use this type of non-standard scheme? Is it disappointing to anyone else?

Just looking for some feedback.

Thanks! Andy

tmbg · #2 09-03-2008, 10:14 AM

My 496 shows different airspace the same way the sectional does: dashed blue lines for delta, pink lines for charlie, solid blue lines for bravo. It doesn't depict things like E to surface or E to 700agl like the sectional does.

It also de-emphasizes airspaces boundaries that are more than a certain amount of altitude above or below you, and won't affect you.

AndyRV7 · #3 09-03-2008, 11:08 AM

Thanks! That makes perfect sense to me. I was actually hoping to go with the AV8OR, but for some reason, the airspace thing is really disappointing to me!

Auburntsts · #4 09-03-2008, 11:40 AM

On my ATC airspace is shown with red lines and text (ie floors and ceilings). The DC ADIZ and class B 30NM veil are both shown as a red line with purple borders to differentiate it from the other airspace. MOAs are dipicted with heavy blue lines and prohibited/restricted areas are shown with heavy red lines.

AndyRV7 · #5 09-03-2008, 12:05 PM

Thanks.

I finally got a nice guy at Bendix on the phone. He confimred the pink schema and offered a guess that it was due to the changing color of the terrain awareness information. This is something that may have been apparent to a lot of you, but I've never had my hands on one of these things.

Thanks for the answers though!