Re: Garmin announces iQue 3600a for US pilots

From: Peter (prathman_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:59:31 -0800

Frank Looper wrote:
> http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.php?newsId=832
>
> Garmin, not content with going after the car navigation market, is now going
> after the novice pilot market with the introduction of a new model aimed at
> aviators.
>
That's a rather odd way for them to put it given Garmin's long-standing
presence in the aviation market. As one example, Cessna has recently
started offering the 'all-glass' instrument panel using a Garmin G1000
as an optional upgrade in some of their planes:
http://skyhawksp.cessna.com/avionics.chtml

And way back in the days of the old muxed single-channel Garmin GPS45
they were also selling handheld aviation models and therefore put the
artificial 99 knot speed limit on the non-aviation 45s so pilots
couldn't use those instead. Fortunately they abandoned that
marketing ploy many years ago.

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