I have been employing a Garmin 696 ever since that they initially became available and thoroughly like it. One of the best characteristics is the screen when compared to various other Garmin aviation portable GPS navigation devices. Should you be moving up from any of the other portables with scaled-down displays, much like the Garmin 396 or 496, there are a number of major differences. One of these is the starting boot screen, and that’s just what trapped an associate of mine recently going to FNL out of Kansas. He had been accustomed to the 496, but had never used a 696.

While booting up, the 496 will show you the power level and whether it truly is charging. The 696 doesn’t. And so, my friend was motoring along westbound when the 696 display went black. He tapped the power button and it returned to life, only to go out for a second time in a couple of minutes. After several fumbling around (who has the owner handbook whenever flying? ), he ultimately located the page that revealed the battery to be nearly dead. This was a little bit interesting since it was inserted into the cigar lighter socket in the plane. It turns out that the connection had been bad and just resetting the connector fixed the situation.

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