Garmin buys out UPSAT, so much for healthy competition

[aloft]

Anybody wanna guess which direction prices for GPS systems will go?

http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2003/030725garmin.html

 

[ready2fly]

Like any advanced avionics are "affordable" now.

 

[pilot602]

A brand new, full blown stack of Garmin or King (or UPS) literally costs more than we paid for the Apache.

That's just wrong, man.


But Avionics have always been the expenseive slice - of an already overbearingly expensive pie.