Do you use a GPS? huh, huh, well do you

[ragkar]

I never get lost when I take my old garmin on my scooter or motorcycle into the country to explore unfamiliar roads. But in the words of that great american Daniel Boone "I've never been lost. But once I was disoriented for three days!"

 

[PineRidge]

I never get lost when I take my old garmin on my scooter or motorcycle into the country to explore unfamiliar roads.

Hadn't even thought of using one on a motorcycle, that is until I visited Ram Custom Mounts.

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

Best Buy for Black Friday will have the Garmin - nüvi 660 for $399.99

Electronics Sale Items - Black Friday @ GottaDeal.com

 

[xlr82v2]

Brian is the idea to load in the entire USA, or only the states in which I might travel? The reason I ask this is that I don't know how much memory the City Navigator might take.

Well, for me, with my job taking me to a different place in the country every day, I wanted to have the entire country in there, USA48, Canada, Puerto Rico, Alaska, and even Nova Scotia are in there if I remember correctly. Right off hand, I dont' remember if Hawaii is included or not... but I've got the whole thing stored.

It takes a little over 1.5GB for my Legend Cx, so you'll need a 2GB memory chip to get all of City Navigator in there.

If you don't travel very far or often, then there's nothing wrong with only loading the maps that you think you'll be needing... but, with the price of memory chips these days, why not get enough to load the whole thing? No real reason not to... and, then it's there if you were to ever need it quick.

 

[dieselalles]

My wife works for a major soft drink company and has over 500 accounts she's responsible for. The Garmin Nuvi 660 has proven itself irreplaceable to her. It lets her focus on the driving and the Nuvi points her in the right direction. No more having to fumble with maps and make phone calls to locate out-of-the-way accounts.

I was sold on GPS when we moved our son to Stuttgart Arkansas so he could co-op for a semester. We got down there late after getting tied up on the interstate behind a overturned truck. We found our motel, went to Wal-Mart to replace some forgotten items, and got us a bite to eat. The Nuvi had us tooling around the town like we had lived there for years. Unbelievably handy.

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

Work gave us the Magellan Roadmate 360, I have not been happy with it and am thinking of replacing it. You have to enter the city name, NOT the zip code to locate the address. Friday I had to go to Brooklyn so I entered Brooklyn, unit said no such place, I entered New York City, still no such place! I gave up and went to MAP Quest and printed a map with directions.

The unit takes forever to locate where you are. It keeps going to the last place you entered into the unit. It sometimes takes 15 minutes to finally locate where you are located. In downtown areas it has a hard time figuring out where you are located and it either losing contact with the satellites or is forever trying to figure out where you are located. In the middle of nowhere with few roads it does great, get into a city and it is LOST!

I find it such a pain that most times I do not use it. Since all we have is well kept and traffic free roads in NJ and NY it is not a problem..... sure! Like some have said I am not sure what unit to get. The Garmin Nuvi 660 sure has some good reviews here. How do you enter the address? Does it locate by zip code, city or Lat and Lon? How does it do in downtown urban areas?

 

[jinman]

Jinman, you wouldn't happen to work for CAE would you?

Yes, I do. I've been building ground schools for them since 1990. It hasn't always been CAE. When I came there in 1990, the parent company, Bicoastal, was in bankruptcy. It took us over six years to finally turn a profit. Since 1990, we've been owned by Southern Air Transport, GE, and now CAE. What do you fly? Is it in your profile?

 

[xlr82v2]

Yes, I do. I've been building ground schools for them since 1990. It hasn't always been CAE. When I came there in 1990, the parent company, Bicoastal, was in bankruptcy. It took us over six years to finally turn a profit. Since 1990, we've been owned by Southern Air Transport, GE, and now CAE. What do you fly? Is it in your profile?

Well that's Cool!! I was down there at your place back in August for recurrent/upgrade, and, I got my LR-JET type rating... I fly the LR-55 mostly, every once in a while (thankfully), the 35. I'm a big ol' Midwest farm boy, so you'd understand if you saw me why I'm happy about not flying the 35 very often.

You guys do a real nice job with the training.

Are you on any certain aircraft, or do you work all of them?

So maybe you understand my username on here then...?

 

[txdon]

Work gave us the Magellan Roadmate 360, I have not been happy with it and am thinking of replacing it. You have to enter the city name, NOT the zip code to locate the address. ...... It sometimes takes 15 minutes to finally locate where you are located.

NY, interesting, my Magellan Maestro 4050 never takes more than a minute to locate satellites and position the map if I turn it on a different place than where I turned it off. Also, I can put in the zip code instead of the name of the town.

However it only gives 3 months of free traffic and I hear the Samsung is always free traffic. (Like I really need traffic except a few days a year.)

 

[PineRidge]

Work gave us the Magellan Roadmate 360, I have not been happy with it and am thinking of replacing it. You have to enter the city name, NOT the zip code to locate the address. Friday I had to go to Brooklyn so I entered Brooklyn, unit said no such place, I entered New York City, still no such place! I gave up and went to MAP Quest and printed a map with directions.

The unit takes forever to locate where you are. It keeps going to the last place you entered into the unit. It sometimes takes 15 minutes to finally locate where you are located. In downtown areas it has a hard time figuring out where you are located and it either losing contact with the satellites or is forever trying to figure out where you are located. In the middle of nowhere with few roads it does great, get into a city and it is LOST!

I find it such a pain that most times I do not use it. Since all we have is well kept and traffic free roads in NJ and NY it is not a problem..... sure! Like some have said I am not sure what unit to get. The Garmin Nuvi 660 sure has some good reviews here. How do you enter the address? Does it locate by zip code, city or Lat and Lon? How does it do in downtown urban areas?

If'in (country word) I lived or worked in the big city I might consider a unit that has dead reckoning abilities like the Garmin 7500 for those times when the satellites are lost.