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Offline Sparks

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« Reply #45 on: June 25, 2006, 08:56:39 PM »
I have TomTom Navigator 5 on my PDA with their bluetooth receiver for driving navigation and a Garmin Etrex Legend for walking.  

The TomTom on my PDA is fantastic - great 3D display, easy to follow, as accurate as you can expect with the rate of modern road construction and easily portable (I have now got CA, AZ, NV, WA, ID, OR, the UK, Germany, France and all the Benelux on a 1 gig SD card).

However TomTom support SUCKS !!!!! .  Maps are not easily available, it takes an act of god to get a reply from them and they charge you for sneezing.

The Garmin was tremendous value, does just what it needs to and is very user freindly.

For support I would go Garmin.
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« Reply #46 on: June 26, 2006, 02:21:37 AM »
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Yeah, but will the TomTom give her a precision WAAS approach into an airport with modified minimums during a SIGMET?  


I think that's the first time I've ever heard the phrase "during a sigmet"

Excerpt from an "I learned about flying from that" story...

there I was...penetrating the sigmet.  I rolled the airplane left, then right to dodge the points listed on the fearsome convective sigmet...god help you if you fly into one of those!  Just then...I flew from the edge of the sigmet into the airmet...first sierra, zulu and then suddenly without warning tango hit us.

The mighty kitfox kept on steady with its freewilling lack of electrical system giving me the confidence i need that because I installed the snowmobile/lawnmower engine two strokes are better than four because with less strokes there is less room for error.  I did not fear losing the uninstalled electrical system because it would never fail in the O-F-F mode.

I reached for my handheld GPS which listed MOAs, R, P, class B, C and D airspace.  I had to avoid the B-for-Brick wall airspace because if during the sigmet I penetrated the invisible forcefield of a veil my mighty Rans sans substance Mk IV would be smashed to bits.

While airmet tango threw its best stuff at me, I fought back with the WAAS which waas not installed on my GPS and also waas not granted approval.  Fear not for the E-LSA exemption allows me to use a non-approved signal that waas not approved for approval.  Tango is really kicking up, Sierra and zulu are starting to take their toll.  Fortunately it's only experimental ice I'm picking up so I put on my robe and test pilot wizard hat to begin experimenting.

I find that expiremental ice behaves very similar to approved ice...which i waas not granted approval to be approved to operate in.

Then...without warning or advisement from any equipment in my aerial lawnchair...another convective sigmet struck, ripped the wings spars free of their experimental joints by shearing the experimental bolts and I am left experimenting with death.

Part two next week...

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« Reply #47 on: June 26, 2006, 03:01:45 AM »
After a short googling...I found an actual CVR transcript of an ultralight pilot in the exact situation listed above.

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« Reply #48 on: June 26, 2006, 03:00:07 PM »
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And whats wrong with stoping and asking directions?


Real men dont need directions. :D
Corkyjr on country jumping:
In the end you should be thankful for those players like us who switch to try and help keep things even because our willingness to do so, helps a more selfish, I want it my way player, get to fly his latewar uber ride.

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« Reply #49 on: June 26, 2006, 06:17:51 PM »
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Real men dont need directions. :D


Oh is that why you guys drive around with that " god I hope she doesn't notice I'm clueless" look on your faces while you pass the same spot 3 times?

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« Reply #50 on: June 26, 2006, 08:50:18 PM »
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Oh is that why you guys drive around with that " god I hope she doesn't notice I'm clueless" look on your faces while you pass the same spot 3 times?


 :D
Corkyjr on country jumping:
In the end you should be thankful for those players like us who switch to try and help keep things even because our willingness to do so, helps a more selfish, I want it my way player, get to fly his latewar uber ride.

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« Reply #51 on: June 28, 2006, 05:35:30 PM »
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I think that's the first time I've ever heard the phrase "during a sigmet"

Excerpt from an "I learned about flying from that" story...
Are you getting enough oxygen?  :D

Planes flying during sigmets is bad enough, an ultralight would be eaten for lunch before it even got off the ground.  There's a sign at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base: "There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime".

Unless...  unless, of course, you were trying to take a jab at me because I went to look at an ultralight this weekend?
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis

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« Reply #52 on: June 28, 2006, 06:45:29 PM »
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Unless...  unless, of course, you were trying to take a jab at me because I went to look at an ultralight this weekend?


Who...me????:D

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« Reply #53 on: June 28, 2006, 06:58:35 PM »
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 :D


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« Reply #54 on: June 28, 2006, 10:41:04 PM »
Well guys, here's the result of this thread....


About two weeks ago, I went ahead and purchased some shares of GRMN... 400 to be exact, at around 90 dollars a pop.

As of today, it's up to 102.30.

Since this is real money and not a game, I decided not to post this in the other thread.

With the price up more than 5% today alone, I've put in the sell order and am waiting for the inevitable drop. Mind you, I am doing this against my better judgment. As a big fan of Warren Buffet, I planned to be in this for the long haul, but with growth this quick, I just couldn't stand it. A 25% return on the year is okay, a 5% return in one day is not natural, and thus, as everything balances out, I figured better bail now and re-invest later. The quarterly report is still about 5-6 weeks away, and I'm hoping to catch that wave too, when it comes.

As the concept of conservative investment goes, you invest in the company, not the stock. Having said that, I honestly believe that this company can probably double my money in 1.5-2 years. Nevertheless, I cannot just sit by and watch this huge wave pass me by. I'm taking the addict's way out.

Furthermore, another company that I put some funds into, a penny stock belonging to a very promising midwestern company specialising in the production of Choicedek material, just lost 10 percent today. The plan is to parlay the Garmin gains into the penny stock, and hope that it recovers the losses.

Tomorrow morning, it'll be plainly obvious if I should cry or rejoice. My fingers are crossed.

In the meantime, I want to thank you guys for reaffirming my beliefs in this company.

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« Reply #55 on: June 28, 2006, 11:53:57 PM »
i posted something positive about garmin in this thread.
u owe me $88.89 (almost enough for 42 minutes in the C-172SP)

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« Reply #56 on: June 29, 2006, 12:00:54 AM »
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i posted something positive about garmin in this thread.
u owe me $88.89 (almost enough for 42 minutes in the C-172SP)


We'll discuss this dept after the opening tomorrow, okay???

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« Reply #57 on: June 29, 2006, 12:09:05 AM »
by that time the $ will have been spent driving the Garmin equiped bird around the sky

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« Reply #58 on: July 01, 2006, 12:50:23 AM »
Found an ollllllllld picture tucked away in picturehangar.


Garmin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!