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[drunkenbeagle]

Unless your planning on doing some "off roading" with your aiplane I wouldn't use a camping GPS to fly.

Ummm... Why not? For VFR navigation, the cheapest GPS you can get is fine. I use one that goes for $20 on eBay.

The WX is a bonus. In FL, the NEXRAD is pretty useless though, 5 minutes is way too far out of date.

Of course, I started flying back in the stone age, no GPS. The only area navigation I ever got to use was LORAN. Trust me, a "camping" GPS is far more user friendly.

 

[wjmiller3]

Unless your planning on doing some "off roading" with your aiplane I wouldn't use a camping GPS to fly.

I fly a (non-gps) Sundowner quite often, and I use my Garmin Nuvi on most flights. Put it in "off-road" mode and type in the airport I want to go to and it works great....

 

[Roger, Roger]

I fly a (non-gps) Sundowner quite often, and I use my Garmin Nuvi on most flights. Put it in "off-road" mode and type in the airport I want to go to and it works great....

Yup! I've done that as well.

 

[bLizZuE]

I had a student a few years ago that had a tiny GPS that didn't really have a map, but you could store waypoints in it. He had waypointed all the airports he had been to and from, and it would point the way. Most basic GPS I think I've ever seen.

 

[killbilly]

I had a student a few years ago that had a tiny GPS that didn't really have a map, but you could store waypoints in it. He had waypointed all the airports he had been to and from, and it would point the way. Most basic GPS I think I've ever seen.

Yeah. I've got a little Garmin Gecko that does this. And yes, you can sit there with the little buttons and punch in the lat and long of all the local airports and use it that way.

I've been meaning to go up and sharpen some of my pilotage skills in a non-GPS 152, and take that little guy with me as a "bailout" option in case I get lost. Once you get west of Fredricksburg in Central TX, places to get fuel become hard to come by in a short-range airplane.