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Almost any GPS can be used for flying. It may not have all the fancy
features such as head to the nearest airport, but most will give you current
ground speed and time to next waypoint. I just completed a cross country
from Minnesota to southern Texas a couple weeks ago and my ($99) Magellan
Pioneer worked great for that trip. It has a limitation of only one route of
10 legs, but I just plugged in the IDs and lat/long for each airport I
would overfly or land at for each ~3 hour flight leg and it would tell me
how far to the next waypoint/airport and time it should take. I think it has
a limit of 100 user stored waypoints which was more than enough for this
trip. It probably would have been better to use an Apollo Precedus (which I
also have) with its built in airport database, more routes and leg settings
available but is more complicated to use with all of its menus. At one-tenth
the cost of the Precedus, the Pioneer worked great for our trip.

Greg Burkhart
N93332

"Jefro" wrote in message
news:3CE181B7.E8504580@transmeta.com...
> > Second question - I recently bought a Garmin Etrex Summit GPS for my
> > mountaineering needs after much research. Is a GPS a GPS? Meaning
> > can this be used for aviation (this is probably a silly question and
> > the answer is likely no). In either case, any recommendations for a
> > standalone handheld aviation GPSs?
>
> GPS is GPS is GPS, you can use your Etrex in the cockpit. You will be
able to determine
> your latitude and longitude, which may be just fine for an emergency unit.
Unfortunately
> it won t have the nifty features you will really want in an aviation GPS,
like "find the
> nearest airport" and "draw a line from my current location to my
destination airport and
> calculate how long it will take to get there". Just like your aviation
GPS wont have
> mountaineering features, your mountaineering GPS wont have aviation
stuff. But itll
> work just fine, and in fact you will probably enjoy better reception in
the air than under
> the trees.

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