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GPS Use on Airlines
Spyder63
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Mark
I have used my Garmins to plot a straight line course to the arriving airport and get a fairly accurate ETA and I get speed, direction we are flying, and altitude. During day flights I can zoom in on areas I see below - lakes, rivers, geographic areas of interest, highways, towns, etc. and see the name. At night I can "see" where we are instead of just looking down on a bunch of tiny little lights. And it doesn't hurt to have a cute flight attendant come by and ask me where we are at the moment. :wink: Obviously I am much more easily amused but, I am also available if the pilot gets lost!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :roll:
Well, 'ole Mrs. Miller, my English teacher waayyy back in grade school taught us that a period at the end of a sentence denoted a statement and since I did not see a :?: I took it as a statement, not a question. I still don't see a question in there. That's about it. And I like to do it.
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GPSIII, GPSIII+, Rino 120s, SPIII, IQue3600, SP2610, GPS10, SP2730, nüvi 680, , MIO C320 –- (the Navigon 7100, TT GO920 & Panasonic GP50U went back!)
"Life Sucks and then you Die"
I will bring my GPS on my next flight if permitted by the airlines. Thanks for the info.
Don't forget Valentine's Day, guys. They deserve it for putting up with us. :roll:
Mark
I think we have managed to take this thread entirely Off Topic so I am going to quit.
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GPSIII, GPSIII+, Rino 120s, SPIII, IQue3600, SP2610, GPS10, SP2730, nüvi 680, , MIO C320 –- (the Navigon 7100, TT GO920 & Panasonic GP50U went back!)
"I took the road less traveled, now where the hell am I?"...."How should I know - you wouldn't let me recalculate!!" :?
:wink: -Jim_
Tim - one other question - when I attempt to insert an emoticon at the text insert cursor it always sends it to the very end of the all the text typed, even if it is 3 paragraphs away. I have to cut 'n paste to get it where I want it. Is that normal operation?
How did you get a signal lock on a plane that's moving at hundreds of miles per hour? Did you have to sit at a window, or just anywhere on the plane??
I do carry a Gilsson external patch antenna with a 3 foot lead and sometimes use it although since it is an active antenna is does draw down the GPS battery a little faster. The antenna can be slipped up under the window shade, which will hold it in place, and then it is easier to use the GPS. If you do not have a window seat and your seatmate does not mind you running the antenna wire (very thin) across their personal real estate then that can work too. If you travel more than 500 miles since the last time the GPS was turned on it will have a very hard time getting new ephemeral data, especially on a plane at those high speeds, but changing the internal clock to the new time zone may help. I don't know of any GPS that will automatically adjust after crossing a time zone. If I don't use it on one flight segment I always try to get a "fix" while on layover in the airport in case I want to use it on the next flight.
I tend to use my older Garmin IQue 3600 as it has capability of straight line routing ( aka off road) and maps do show names of geographic features, i.e., rivers, lakes, national parks, etc. I tried a TT920 on a long flight and other than knowing where you were it was a disappointment on getting the same information the 6 year old IQue can.
-Jim-
Unc Ben is the expert here. I wont get my unit for a couple of weeks and even then, I will have to wait for Euro maps.
However, I have seen the screen shots. The Ipaq has 3 time zone clocks.
TT machines are not desigend to work on planes, so forget about it.
Update:
HP feature set from Unc Ben:
Tracklog - yes
GPS Accuracy readout - yes
Selective route exclusion - yes
TMC Traffic - yes, as an option
Antialiasing - of course!
Quick screen referesh rate - yes. Look here:
http://www.windowsfordevices.com/articles/AT4086544467.html
Long battery life - yes 4-5 hours, user changeable.
Pedestrian mode - no.
Sensitive tap screen - yes
Elevation readout - yes
Which side of the road - it does not announce it but it does direct you to the correct side of the street.
Satellite graphics screen - yes, nice one too.
Auto time zone, night/day switch ... yes, yes ,yes.
I tried a Navigon 7100 back in NOV and did not recall it had that feature. I never left my time zone so it never occurred to me check. I gave my brother a 2100 for Xmas so I will check and see if that model does and how it works out of curiousity.
-Jim-
Infama - was that a veiled reference to RTFM? :wink: :wink:
Does the HP310 have a route simulation mode? I wonder if a time zone change would happen on a simulated trip across a time zone? Probably not. I guess you would actually have to be there.
I have heard/read stories by people who assumed that their GPS would auto-adjust time zones and got messed up when the ETA showing was still based on their own local time. Wouldn't that be a bummer to miss your departure time on the big boat for that once-in-a-lifetime cruise to Hawaii OR your wedding, or your own funeral, for that matter :lol: etc. because your GPS was wrong? :shock:
seems like it would work.. your closer up to the satellites.. and I can use my GPS indoors with thick walls
We are just kidding around, nothing serious.
No doubt in my mind that it wasn't. I sure hope nobody takes anything we say/write on here seriously! :lol: I know I don't take myself seriously! :wink:
Got to get back to getting my brother's Navigon 2100 ready for a "flight" to San Diego on Sunday. (How's that for a little nudge back On Topic?)
-Jim-
You don't get out much, do you, Unc Ben? :lol: :lol:
Kidding aside, what was the reason for returning the 920?
Cheers!
Do you know how a local electronic chain here described the 920 in a flyer?
"Tout simplement LE MEILLEUR".
TT is king in Europe for sure.
Uncle Ben - What?
Driver - TomTom
Uncle Ben - Tom what
Driver - TomTom
I though he had a speech impediment, so I asked again...
Uncle Ben - Sorry, I don't think I heard you right, did you say it's a TOM - what's that, never heard of it?
Driver - No, Sir, it's a TomTom, the largest GPS manufacturer in the world!
Oh yeah, I thought to myself, then I said:
Uncle Ben - Well, I don't know, but Garmin is pretty big too you know.
Driver - Gar what? What did say? Garment ... never heard of it. :P
Needless to say that at the time, I didn't know much about GPSs (and still don't.) I knew about Garmin's because I've had one on the boat for a few years, and this story is going back about three years... at which time I didn't know anything about TomTom.
Cheers!
HappyTrails! Drive Safe!
Re: the TT920. I really wanted a change from Garmin and Costco had a good price aroundh the holidays. I did not like the mapping - from the directions it gave me compared to my Garmins or the cartoon-ish look to the maps, or the fact it did not name a lot of streets I was approaching or the big creek I live near. Then when the POI database was coming up really short - could not find any Lowe's or Home Depot and who knows how many other large chains. MapShare is not what it is claimed to be -yet. I got tired of always hearing something like "enter the highway and bear left" - usually when getting on a multi-lane interstate type road. I saw no reason for that instruction. Took it on a cross country flight and all it was good for was as an MP3 player and I have plenty of those. I think TT is still stuck in European algorithms for directions and marketing. Voice input was almost more trouble than it was worth - only allowed address input. There are probably a few other things I did not like but I have forgotten.
I did like the fact it had both US and Euro maps.
As for the HP 310 - I have looked at the specs, but for now I am OK playing with my cheapo Mio C320 and I am going to wait to see how the new Garmin 880 and Naqvigon 8100 shake out. Changes coming for the Mio line as well since they bought Navman a year ago. I'm trying to be patient and not spend my Social Security check too fast this month! :lol:
-Jim-
It could have been a Super Bowl commercial - for HP!
For me its the opposite. Mios are just too slow for me. When you tap, there is always a delay.
As for Lowes, etc, I have all of those POIs. Did you load the free retail POI update from TT home page?? POI are not in short supply for the 920.
I agree that voice input is a gimmick, as its simply not necessary.
Finally, it's all a matter of taste. Garmin maps strike me as cartoonish, while TT maps seem more professional.