Monday, Jun 29, 2009 at 02:52
Bonz I find Doug's comments very interesting especially after I ran 18,000 k's across and around Australia, running a mates Garmin GPSMAP296 Aviation GPS, I also had my own trusty Ipaq running Tom-tom and Oziexplorer, also my Toshiba Laptop with a Hi-408BT Bluetooth GPS 32Ch (Haicom receiver). One mate had a pretty basic Garmin Quest 2 and a Magellan Triton 500, also a Asus running Trackranger and the other vehicle had Garmin GPS 111 running to a Compaq Laptop. Some of these where borrowed units just to do the comparison.
The Garmin 296 had the quickest refresh rate, whilst the Haicom Bluetooth unit was the quickest to lock onto sats.
But the point I wanted to make is they all read identical with positioning and if they don't, most of the tracks and waypoints on this site are useless by Dougs comments, because quite a large proportion of them are sent to David from members using units other than Garmin.
I have checked and double checked cords off this site with Google Earth and with Ozixplorer and with AIRNAV VFR flight planning software and guess what, they all seem to place the points in the same spot.
Doug if any of the way/points or tracks on this site are yours may I suggest you redo them with Oziexplorer on a laptop as that is becoming the most widely used mapping system and it would be bad situation if someone using one of these system's tried to find a point that wasn't where it should be due to their system reading different to your unit !
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