GARMIN GPSMAP-96C Portable GPS - Pacific Lite Routable basemap

The portable, color GPSMAPr 96C, along with GPSMAP 96, integrate 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
• Comprehensive U.S. database of obstacles and towers helps alert pilots of potential hazards
• 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 Jeppesenr 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 Selectr 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 BlueChartr or Recreational Lakes with Fishing Hot Spotsr 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!

GPSMAP 96C Includes:

• Americas, Atlantic, or Pacific Lite Routable basemap
• MapSourcer Trip & Waypoint Manager CD
• Yoke mount
• Wrist strap
• PC/USB interface cable
• 12-volt adapter
• Two AA batteries
• Quick reference guide
• Owner's manual
• MapSource Compatibility

GPSMAP 96C Features:

• Unit dimensions: 2.7"W x 6.2"H x 1.4"D
• Weight: 7 ounces
• Display size: 2.6" diagonally
• Display resolution: 160x240-pixel, 256-color TFT display
• Usable storage capacity: 119 MB
• Battery life: Up to 40 hours in battery save mode, depending on backlight setting
• Antenna: Built-in quadrifilar, with external antenna connection (MCX)
• WAAS-enabled, 12 parallel channel GPS receiver continuously tracks and uses up to 12 satellites to compute and update your position
• Multi-platform navigation: Easy navigation in an aircraft, vehicle or boat and as a handheld GPS unit; accepts data from Garmin's MapSource CD-ROM products
• Waterproof: IEC 60529 IPX7 standards (submersible in one meter of water for up to 30 mins.)
• Routes, Tracks, Waypoints: 50 reversible routes (300 waypoints each), 20 saved tracks (500 trackpoints each), TracBackr technology and 1,000 waypoints with graphical icon identification
• Continuously updated; Airport, VOR, NDB, INT, user, ARTCC, FSS, airspace, WX
• Automatic turn-by-turn along-road routes
• Current speed, average speed, resettable max. speed, trip timer, nearest point of interest and trip distance
• Airspace, approach and arrival, off course, proximity waypoint, others
• Lat/Lon, UTM/UPS, Maidenhead, MGRS, Loran TDs and other grids, including user grid
• Built-in celestial tables for best times to fish and hunt, sunrise and sunset, sun and moon by date and position
• Built-in Jeppesenr with obstacle database (USA only); includes worldwide airports and VORs, plus Americas, or Atlantic international, or Pacific international NDBs, intersections, special use and controlled air space, runway data, plus airport , FSS, and ARTCC frequencies. Jeppesenr data also includes final approach sequence waypoints for all published approaches
• Current elevation, resettable minimum and maximum elevation, ascent/descent rate, total ascent/descent, average and maximum ascent/descent rate
• Fully gasketed, high impact plastic alloy, waterproof to IEC 60529 IPX7 standards

  Specifications are subject to change without notice.

  * Subject to accuracy degradation to 100m 2DRMS under the U.S. Department of Defense imposed Selective Availability Program.