Re: Garmin Map96C problems (more explinations/questions)

"R" == "Roy" writes:

R> ....yet. What do you expect, *instant* results? I've been reading
R> your other thread on this, and it does sound like a bug, but this
R> seems like a pretty minor issue to get very worked up about. It
R> would be nice if it changed to daylight saving time automatically,
R> but it doesn't seem like that much of a problem to change it
R> manually. You only have to do it twice a year.

No Roy what annoys me is that there is an option there which isn't
documented on what it does.

As I had it set to AUTO, I believed it had adjusted the time itself.
Luckily I noticed the error while walking and playing with the GPS
and NOT when I am on a long flight arriving 1 hour after sun-set.

R> I don't have a 96C, but I have a 76CS. Given the physical
R> similarities between them, I suspect that the 96 works pretty
R> similarly to the 76, except that you have aviation data and maybe
R> some additional functions.
R> I looked on my 76 and was surprised to see that "Course Up" is
R> not an option. Seems like my old GIII+ had that, but maybe that's
R> a feature Garmin has eliminated.

Well, maybe. But talking (indirectly) to the importer (I asked the
people from whom I bought it to ask for me.) The shop people said
that when they asked the importer, that the GPS they had, had that
function/feature.

I'll take it as given it was the same model. So where is the
difference ..... brought about?

R> I haven't flown for about 20 years, but when I used to fly, my
R> heading on a leg didn't vary by more than a few degrees and that
R> was normally pretty slowly. Doesn't seem like the map should
R> swivel enough to be a problem. What am I not understanding about
R> this?

No and I agree. Usually I fly with North up anyway. Just when I am
zoomed in and it goes to track up (and yes I know I can change the
range so it stays north up) it is, well, annoying that the map starts
to swivel.

If I want to look at something interesting en-route and I fly a bit
of a "jolly" the map doesn't need to spin.

R> Same unit as yours? Maybe you should ask them to email you a
R> screen capture of the setting.

Well, as I said above, I hope so.

R> What screen, and how did you try to turn it off?

Menu button 3 times and then to screen.

There are the settings for things, and at the bottom, the back light
time out and brightness.

I select the brightness and press enter.

Then the "pop up" comes up and I use the rocker switch to get it to
0. Then I press enter. Then it seems I have to press enter again to
"Save the setting".

But the manual doesn't really explain that very well.

(Down load the manual for Garmin and read it yourself.)

R> > or via the menu it wasn't kept.
R> >
R> > Only after going to the menu,
R>
R> Wait a minute, you just said that when you did it "via the menu
R> it wasn't kept". Different menu??

Appologies. Probably badly explained by me.

Quickly pressing the power button you see the back-light option.
Rocker switch to adjust. But this way it is not "kept". Via the
menu and the "display" option, it is supposed to be "kept".

Though as I said, I think I have since turned it on a couple of times
and it has the light on.

Have to check that again, don't want to dis-credit myself.

R> Is that when it's connected to external power? Because the
R> backlight *always* comes on at 50% when external power is used. I
R> suspect that this is the reason for all of your backlight
R> problems.

Well, that is a good point. Most of the time, it is on external
power. I kind of have an affinity to batteries and don't like to
squander them.

However what I explained seemed to work even with external power
connected.

But again: I'll have to do more checking here.

R> How? I haven't had any problem with it.

Read on. ;-)

R>
R> >
R> > The Beta groups the waypoint icons better than the current FULL
R> > version.
R>
R> The purpose of beta versions is to test new features, so it
R> shouldn't be surprising to find things in a Beta version that
R> aren't in the current non-beta version. Garmin usually brings out
R> the final version

Fully agree. But when the beta installs over the top of the full, it
kind of is annoying.

R> reasonably soon after the beta. So it shouldn't be long until
R> there is a release that handles the waypoint icons the same way
R> the beta does.
R>
R> The rest of your comments about the software are mostly a list of
R> the things you don't like about the way it works and your thoughts
R> on how it should work. You make a lot of good points. But it
R> really isn't reasonable to call something not working the way you
R> think it should a *problem*.

Ok, granted.

It is just the run-arond I am getting asking people for help with the
DLS setting.

I feel like a problem which no one wants to deal with. So I get
"reved up" with all the procastinating when I ask for help.


Anyway, thanks for the reply.


Happy flying.

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Thanks.....

Jarod


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