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The aera 795 features 3D Vision, a unique 3D view of database-generated terrain. 3D Vision uses GPS position and the terrain-alerting database to recreate a behind-the-aircraft perspective view of the topographic landscape. The resulting virtual reality display offers pilots a supplemental 3D depiction of land and water features including terrain, obstacles, runways and airport signposts all shown in relative proximity to the aircraft. With the flick of a finger, the 3D view can be rotated around the aircraft to easily view the surrounding terrain. Using forward-looking terrain avoidance capability, the aera 795 predicts in advance where potential hazards may exist and colorises the landscape showing amber or red overlays on those areas. Any towers or obstacles that may encroach upon the flight path are color-highlighted and clearly displayed with height-appropriate symbology.

The path to a paperless cockpit
For pilots who prefer Jeppesen charts and diagrams, Garmin also offers a ChartView enablement option. Garmin ChartView utilizes Jeppesen’s extensive library to provide global charting capabilities.
Other new features include a built-in digital document viewer that enables the pilot to load and view PDF documents, JPEG photos, and many other electronically formatted materials including checklists and detailed performance/procedural data from the aircraft flight manual. There is also a convenient scratch pad for writing down clearances or other important notes.

Added support for helicopter missions
The addition of optional City Navigator data on the aera 795 allows the user to search and locate any desired surface address for use as a flight plan waypoint or for aerial direct-to navigation. This makes it even easier for helicopter and fixed-wing operators to respond to critical missions around streets and highways, survey land or perform search and rescue operations.

Instrument back up and traffic
Garmin’s patented Panel Page on the aera 795 offers a backup solution to the instrument panel with its exclusive display of GPS-derived panel information, including track indication, GPS altitude, groundspeed, vertical speed and turn indication. Plus, the internal GPS provides position updates five times per second (5 Hz), allowing it to present flight data more smoothly and accurately.
The aera 795 will also display traffic if coupled to a compatible traffic source like the Zaon XRX. Garmin has increased the interface capability through the addition of a second serial port to allow even more connectivity simultaneously. With two serial ports, the pilot can display traffic information, send frequencies to a Garmin SL30 or SL40 radio, send position information and more to other select aircraft devices.

Airport Directory and more
Pilots can enjoy the AC-U-KWIK airport directory database, which features worldwide airport information for more than 7,800 airports globally, and contains hard-to-find information for pre-flight planning in North America, Europe, Asia, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Africa and Australia.
The aera 795 Atlantic is pre-loaded with VFR reporting points (VRPs), AC-U-KWIK international airport directory data and obstacles where available.

 

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Leveraging Garmin's industry-leading expertise in both Aviation and Automotive GPS, the versatile aera series of touchscreen portables take fingertip navigation to a whole new level. Featuring crisp 4.3-inch QVGA wide-format displays, all aera models come with preloaded automotive maps, a built-in terrain/obstacles aviation database, patented Panel Page instrument display, and more. So, wherever you fly or drive, you can count on aera to provide the complete door-to-door guidance package.
The aera 550: A Premium Choice
Stepping up from the aera 500 model, the aera 550 brings added features, performance, and more advanced pilot/motorist capabilities to the overall product design. Terrain/obstacles graphics are shown in higher-resolution 9 arc-second detail on the aera 550 display (providing over 11 times more onscreen resolution than the standard 30 arc-second versions. A full year of prepaid database updates is included with your aera 550 purchase.
Elevate Your Expectations
To enhance situational awareness, the aera 550’s graphical Terrain page offers both overhead and vertical profile views of the topography you’re overflying. Plus, a database-driven terrain advisory feature offers TAWS-like color coding and pop-up alerts when obstructions or ground proximity conflicts are projected to impact your flight path. There’s an IFR map mode that lets you navigate on high or low enroute airways. And for help with traffic separation, an optional power/data cable (sold separately) makes it easy to interface your aera 550 with the Garmin GTX 330 Mode S transponder in your aircraft, thus enabling you to access and display TIS traffic alerts in busy terminal airspace throughout the U.S. Moreover, you can also use the aera to load communication frequencies into your Garmin SL 40 Comm or SLO 30 Nav/Comm transceiver.
Attention Road Warriors
When it’s time to hangar the airplane and head for the open road, your Garmin aera 550 never misses a beat. It's "dual boot" design enables full automotive GPS capability, graphically supported by preloaded City Navigator® NT street mapping. Operating much like Garmin's popular nüvi® line of touchscreen auto navigators, the aera 550 offers voice-guided turn-by-turn directions with text-to-speech audio technology that calls out streets by name. In addition, there's built-in Bluetooth® support for wireless hands-free calling with your compatible mobile phone. Other premium features available on the aera 550 include lane assist with junction view, speed limit notification, Navteq traffic alerts¹, and more. Plus, there's a unique "smart mount" for the aera that helps get you on your way with instant clip-and-go transition from aircraft to automotive mode.
Garmin aera series: It's the ultimate fly/drive option.
¹Navteq traffic alerts require the GTM 20(sold separately). Traffic content not available for all areas. See www.navteq.com/rdstraffic for traffic coverage areas.

Garmin's aera series of dual-duty GPS portables offer easy transition from flying to motoring – by combining the best in moving-map display features with intuitive, menu-driven touchscreen control. With aera, fingertip navigation has entered a whole new era: One that streamlines operation. Eliminates knobs and buttons. Simplifies the pilot/motorist interface. And lets you think in terms of door-to-door guidance, not just runway-to-runway.
Check Out the aera 500
There are two  European aera models in the Garmin lineup, offering a full range of cost/capability choices. The first and most affordable unit in the series is the aera 500. Featuring a crisp 4.3-inch QVGA wide-format touchscreen and pre-loaded graphical mapping, this versatile, feature-rich unit comes ready for takeoff, right out of the box.
Fly aera. Anywhera
In aviation mode, the aera 500's detailed chart-style shaded mapping and extensive terrain and aviation databases help you visualize your flight path in relation to nearby navaids, terrain, SUAs, obstructions, and so on. Plus, the addition of private airports and heliports to the database affords even more navigation and emergency “nearest” options. A database-driven terrain advisory feature offers TAWS-like color coding and pop-up alerts when possible obstructions or ground proximity conflicts loom ahead. And with terrain/obstacle data shown at standard 30 arc-second resolution, you’ll enjoy a surprising level of detail on the display. The unit’s graphical Terrain page offers both overhead and vertical profile views of the topography you’re flying over. What’s more, there's an IFR map mode that lets you display and navigate on high or low enroute airways. You can also pull up MEAs (Minimum Enroute Altitudes) and distances between intersections by touching the airway on the map. As in all the aera models, GPS updating is provided at a super-fast 5 Hz rate. And for added safety, an optional power/data cable (sold separately) makes it easy to interface your aera 500 with the Garmin GTX 330 Mode S transponder in your aircraft, so you can access and display TIS traffic alerts in busy terminal airspace. What’s more, you can also use the aera to load communications frequencies into your Garmin SL 40 Comm or SL 30 Nav/Comm transceiver.
Built to Fly. Born to Run
Once your aircraft returns to terra firma, the fun of aera navigation continues with full automotive GPS capability and preloaded City Navigator® NT street mapping. Operating much like Garmin’s popular nüvi® line of touchscreen auto navigators, your aera 500 offers voice-guided turn-by-turn directions with text-to-speech audio technology that calls out streets by name. In addition, there's built-in Bluetooth® support for wireless hands-free calling with your compatible mobile phone. And the aer's built-in "points of interest" database offers helpful guidance to millions of motels, restaurants, gas stations, ATMs, and other local attractions. To further speed your transition from aircraft to automotive mode, a unique ”smart mount” for the aera offers instant clip-and-go car navigation.
Garmin aera series: It's the ultimate fly/drive option.

 

 

 

See the Big Picture

The GPSMAP 695’s bright 7-inch (17.78 cm) diagonal WVGA sunlight-readable display makes it easy to see detailed mapping day or night. Conveniently view a wider area of map on its large-format display. The bezel that frames the screen includes soft keys at the bottom for quick access to features and a joystick control for easy operation. The 695 also features fast 5 Hz graphical rendering of the panel page and datafields for smoother presentation of flight data.

Enhance Situational Awareness

GPSMAP 695 features a realistic “view from space” satellite imagery basemap. It comes with a built-in Jeppesen database, and Atlantic terrain database. It also includes an obstacles database for Europe. Using this information, the 695 displays your flight route over contour terrain mapping. With information from the terrain and obstacles databases, the 695 monitors your current position in relation to surrounding terrain to provide alerts. Even customize your own minimum clearance levels to receive terrain cautions.

Add a ChartView Key in combination with a JeppView subscription to turn your Garmin 695/696 into an EFB complete with geo-referenced IFR approach charts.

Similar to several other portable Garmin devices, the 695 includes the following enhanced software capabilities:

• Airspace Declutter
  The GPSMAP 695 features the airspace declutter feature of the GPSMAP 495/496. Just select the maximum altitude and any airspace above this figure will not appear on the mapping page. If you fly higher than the maximum altitude selected then the data will automatically be displayed again.
  
  
• VFR or IFR Mapping
  Depending on your flying, you can configure the GPSMAP 695 to display detailed information for enhanced mapping in a VFR format or to emulate the IFR enroute charts to which you might be accustomed. The VFR mapping now displays IFR enroute airways boundaries for situational awareness and in IFR map mode it will display these boundaries along with Low and High airways. As in traditional Garmin style all mapping is fully customizable by you to display features satisfactorily for you.
  
  
• Private Airports and Heliports, VRPs
  The included private airports and heliports database provides even more navigation and emergency "nearest" options. VRPs (Visual Reference Points) are also included and fully searchable as part of your route in preflight planning.

Receive Altitude-Sensitive Alerts

When in the air, Garmin’s new Smart Airspace™ feature makes it easier than ever to identify what airspace lies ahead. Smart Airspace automatically highlights airspace close to your current altitude and de-emphasizes airspace away from the current altitude, which gives you increased situational awareness.

Physical & Performance:
Unit dimensions, WxHxD:	5.7"W x 7.7"H x 2.0"D (14.5 x 19.5 x 5.1 cm)
Display size, WxH:	3.6"W x 6.0"H (9.1 x 15.2 cm); 7.0" diag (17.78 cm)
Display resolution, WxH:	480 x 800 pixels
Display type:	bright, color WVGA TFT with adjustable backlighting
Weight:	35.7 ounces (1012 g) with battery pack; 22.4 ounces (635 g) without battery pack; 12.7 ounces (361 g) RAM mount
Battery:	rechargeable, replaceable Nickel-Metal Hydride
Battery life:	up to 3 hours with full backlight
Voltage range:	11-40
Receiver:	high-sensitivity
IFR or VFR:	VFR

 

Maps, Databases & Memory:
Basemap:	yes
Jeppesen® database:	yes
Types of Jeppesen databases:	full and ARTCC, FSS frequencies and final approach waypoints
Jeppesen database coverage areas:	Americas or Atlantic or Pacific - we supply Atlantic as standard
Preloaded SafeTaxi™ airport diagrams:	yes (U.S. database only)
Preloaded AOPA Airport Directory:	yes (U.S. database only)
Preloaded maps:	no
Ability to add maps:	yes
Accepts data cards:	yes (SD cards)
Built-in memory:	internal solid state
Waypoints/favorites/locations:	3,000
Routes:	50

 

Features:
Moving map:	yes
Instruments page:	yes
Built-in HSI:	yes
Traffic Information Services (TIS) alerts compatible:	yes
Audible terrain alerts:	yes
Smart Airspace Feature (generates and displays altitude-sensitive alerts):	yes
Separate serial and USB interfaces:	yes
Automatic logbook:	yes
Voice prompts (e.g. "Turn right in 500 ft."):	no
3-D map view:	no
Custom POIs (ability to add additional points of interest):	no
XM WX Weather & Radio for U.S. compatible:	no
Automotive-friendly:	no
Additional:	Preloaded Garmin FliteCharts®: yes (U.S. database only) Preloaded low & high altitude enroute airways: yes IFR map mode: yes

 

The GPSMAP 196 is a versatile navigator for air, land, and sea.

This WAAS-capable unit has detailed moving map graphics, HSI steering guidance, a Jeppesen database, and all the other pilot-friendly features you'd expect from GARMIN. You'll be amazed at the exceptional resolution and contrast on this unit's 12-level grayscale display, and its lightning-fast processor makes for extremely fast map redraws and scrolling.

Situational awareness gets a boost from built-in land detail that includes political boundaries, cities, interstates, roads, rivers, and lakes. Steering guidance is clearly presented through a graphic HSI with VNAV, with extended runway centerlines to help orient you to the runway. An automatic logbook also calculates your flight time and automatically records departure and arrival locations. When used with GARMIN logbook software (exclusively made for the GPSMAP 196), this feature makes light work of maintaining your logbook. This flight information is stored in the unit, and can be downloaded to GARMIN logbook software (to be released free by Garmin in late 2002).

The GPSMAP 196 compromises nothing in its versatility, going from cockpit to land to water. In fact, it offers some of the same features found in expensive in-dash car navigation systems, including auto routing. In addition to the built-in GARMIN basemap, the GPSMAP 196 accepts most of our MapSource™ products.

Features include:

• Unique panel page graphically displays flight information
• Logbook feature automatically records departure airports, arrival airports, and flight time
• Extended runway centerlines display on a moving map
• Split-screen moving map and HSI display
• Three Distinct Modes: Aviation, Land, and Water
• Turn-by-turn automotive routing
• Advanced scrolling feature reveals detailed information when rolling the cursor over the built-in basemap.
• Large (3.8 diagonal), 12-level grayscale display in a slim package
• Fast processor provides map redraws and scrolling at over twice the speed of previous aviation portables

GPSMAP 196 receiver

Basemap:
Americas Autoroute or
Atlantic Autoroute

Free single Jeppesen® update

Yoke mount

Dash mount

PC interface cable

Cigarette lighter adapter

Remote antenna

Owner’s manual

Quick reference guide

The portable, color GPSMAP® 96C integrates full-featured GPS navigation with a Jeppesen database and comprehensive towers-and-obstacles database giving pilots the freedom to go anywhere. 

The pilot-friendly GPSMAP 96C has a crisp color display, making map detail easy to read. With 119 megabytes of memory and a mini-USB port, users can quickly download and store map data from a variety of optional MapSource CD-ROMs. Its simple one-thumb keypad control literally puts the world of GPS capability in the palm of your hand.

Whether on land, sea, or air, the GPSMAP 96C is the smart, versatile way to get there:

• Extensive Jeppesen database includes airports, identifiers and services
• Graphic HSI steering cues with GPS-derived VNAV provide added orientation
• Built-in autoroute basemap and optional MapSource marine, topo and city street mapping downloads let you move seamlessly from plane to car to boat to hiking boots.

The GPSMAP 96C offers an extensive Jeppesen database along with a U.S. database of obstacles for the ultimate in moving-map situational awareness. It depicts Jeppesen® airport data overlaid on an electronic map, localizer-like runway extensions, a GPS-derived horizontal situation indicator (HSI) and information on nearby airports (including identifier, bearing and distance to each).  It also features a detailed database of nearby obstructions like radio towers and high-rise buildings. Using symbology, it depicts an obstacle along the flight route, giving pilots a visual cue and alerting them to potential hazards ahead.

Like all of Garmin's new aviation portables, the GPSMAP 96C also provides advanced navigation capabilities on the road or water.  It features a built-in basemap depicting highways, major roads, lakes, rivers, railroads and state and national borders.  It also provides automatic-route generation, off-route recalculation, and turn-by-turn directions with audible tones to alert the driver of upcoming turns. 

When coupled with optional MapSource City Select® software, GPSMAP 96C enables the user to locate and route to more than 5 million points of interest, including hotels, restaurants, service stations, ATMs and more.  For pilots who also like to captain a boat, these units have a Marine mode.  Using optional MapSource BlueChart® or Recreational Lakes with Fishing Hot Spots® software, users can navigate the high seas or nearby lakes with ease.  An added bonus: The GPSMAP 96C is not only waterproof, but also floats!