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I have never seen the criteria that Garmin uses to decide whether an airport has the SafeTaxi feature or not. The website right now says over 850 U.S. airports.
When I originally got my 496 I noticed that my airport, CNM, did not have SafeTaxi but the tower controlled airports in the general area did have the feature, even if they were not as busy. I figured that the deal must be that it was only available for towered airports. Seemed to make some sense.
I flew yesterday for the first time since doing a round of updates on the 496. I was surprised to see that my airport does now have SafeTaxi, so data was not just updated but has been expanded in coverage.
I still don't know how they decide. CNM is decidedly not busy but is fairly large and complicated. It has surface based class E airspace.
I fooled around with the feature and it looks like, as long as I taxi slowly, I can taxi right to my hangar door without looking outside, even threading my way between hangars that are set close. I should probably look outside anyway though?
When I originally got my 496 I noticed that my airport, CNM, did not have SafeTaxi but the tower controlled airports in the general area did have the feature, even if they were not as busy. I figured that the deal must be that it was only available for towered airports. Seemed to make some sense.
I flew yesterday for the first time since doing a round of updates on the 496. I was surprised to see that my airport does now have SafeTaxi, so data was not just updated but has been expanded in coverage.
I still don't know how they decide. CNM is decidedly not busy but is fairly large and complicated. It has surface based class E airspace.
I fooled around with the feature and it looks like, as long as I taxi slowly, I can taxi right to my hangar door without looking outside, even threading my way between hangars that are set close. I should probably look outside anyway though?