the most complete gps i have ever encounter. good and precise mapping, very user friendly, quick and helpful response from costumer support. I would recommend this product

yoke mount too big and unreliable, the cigaret charger was broken and made out of cheap plastic; the 1800 mHa battery is a must have but it wobbles in it's case so in moderate turbulence it might jump and turn the gps off, the go drive application for the americas does not contain the caribbean except for Puerto Rico, so is useless for me since i'm based in the Dominican Republic...

Overall i'm very happy with the product, it could use some improvement and a reality check on the price.

Easy to see. Have not used it in the air yet.

The car bracket is kind of cheap trying to clip the unit into the bracket. I think you are going to have to be very careful or it will break.

Have not used it in the air yet but the car mode is easy to use, accurate easy to read even in bright light. I feel I made a very good purchase.

Great price, nice assortment of accesories included.
Bright screen.
Using for both car and flight navigation.
Good compromise in size between being compact and unwieldy.

The new touch-screen technology is great, but some features are accessible only with someting like the included stylus, a finger being too wide.
Also, touch screen sometimes is harder to use than physical buttons, especially in turbulence.
There needs to be an adapter for a Ram mounting plate, as the suction cup holder doesn't work effectively in the plane.

Very good value at the $600 special price I paid.

Love it so far

The windscreen mount is kinda big.

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I like the gps very much easy to use and very handy.

Non only that the advertisment said it came with a remote antena but sportys and bendix both said it does not need it.

Like the unit would recomend this to a friend

touch screen makes it very easy to use. programming routes is simple

can't get it to connect for database updates on my Mac. no "night" mode which makes it a bit overpowering in the cockpit at night

very happy overall. wish I could export flight plans from a pc rather than having to input manually

The size of the gps is very nice. Its fit and finish is great. The screen is not cluttered at all with the information and the data is very well laid out in most views.

Comes with cig adapter and carrying case.

Excellent driving GPS unit, best i've used.

The battery life is terrible. The unit uses a cell phone battery (standard battery that ships) and provides about an hour and a half of life. The high capacity battery gives 3 hours.

The yoke mount that accompanied my unit does not have enough tightness to keep the gps from wobbling in the mount. I have to use the suctioncup mount on the side glass of the Skyhawk. Very dissapointed with the yoke mount.

As with any gps units, portable or panel mount its going to be difficult to make any adjustments onscreen when in bumpy conditions so don't get the idea that this model with the touch screen is any better than a garmin in those conditions. They all have their cons in this department.

The online updating of this unit is cheesy. It requires you to run a Java applet via windows internet explorer to upload. The honeywell website interface is buggy on authentication and after you authenticate and it supplies your temporary cookie you have to open a new browser window and perform the update. This was not documented but I found it to be my problem in not being able to upload to the unit from IE8.

It would have been nice if all the connection interfaces were on one side of the unit to make semi permanant installations or even the temporary wiring installations more attracive and less cumbersome. The DC plug is on one side and the audio connections and other interfaces are on the other.

Overall i like this unit for the price. There are things that I would have done differently had I been on the design team but that could be said about any product. I purchased this unit because i did not need to have weather right away but will down the road. I did not want to pay the Garmin premium for VFR flying at this time. My biggest complaint is the battery life. I've overcome that obstacle with a gel cell battery with a female cigarette lighter socket and use the supplied cig adapter to power the unit. In some of the FBO's planes that I fly the ship lighter power is disconnected because of some AD so you cannot use the ones on the plane. Its difficult to swap out batteries inflight so having a larger external battery is the way to go.

May be used in the plane or in the car ("Go Fly" / "Go Drive" modes). Good customer-service. Easy to update via online downloads with USB cable (included). Large, easy to read touch-screen. Has many features found on much more expensive units. In most instances, the external antenna (included) is not needed.
Excellent value.

Update not currently available for "Go Drive" database. BendixKing states one should be available within six months. Some newer U.S. residential addresses not yet listed in database.

In my opinion, BendixKing's AV80R GPS is the best bang-for-the-buck on the market today.

Great unit. Very intuitive to use. Touch screen works great.

Sometimes hard to see in direct sunlight. Yoke mount won't stay up, keeps drooping no matter how much I tighten it. First thing I did was print the 260?+ page manual.

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The biggest "Pro" has to be price. Also, there is the option to add weather at a later time if desired. I liked the fact that the product had bluetooth capability for connectivity to peripherals (like a cell phone or XM satellite receiver or Lightspeed headset). I also appreciated the different presentation for using the unit as a vehicle based GPS unit which makes it more automobile friendly for seemless transition from cockpit to rental car or FBO crew car. Theoretically, you can also add music and video as well as e-books which makes for a very versatile, full featured unit.

Although the unit has a pretty simple and intuitive interface, I found it took a lot of time and trial and error to get it set up the way I wanted. It wasn't difficult, just extremely time consuming.

The touch based screen interface is very finicky and can be frustrating at times even when the target is clearly tapped. When you are trying to select a point on the screen that may be smaller in size, and actually moving on the screen, the frustration may not be worth the effort. I would like it to be just a bit brighter for use in direct sunlight (outside of the cockpit), but this was not a a big deal and no worse than the other GPS units I've seen.

Finally, I was very much looking forward to adding some music (to listen to via a bluetooth connection with my Lightspeed headset) since I could plug the AV8OR into the plane's power supply and save battery life on my MP3 player, but I was never able to get it to work out after a couple of hours of reading the manual, updating the firmware, and trying various sources for music files. I suppose if I quit my day job and devote myself to it full time, with the assistance of tech support, it may someday work out, but for now it is a wasted feature as I just gave up and used my iPod instead. What a shame.

Overall, it is a great value for the money and I have no problems recommending it to anybody who wants a compact, color screen GPS unit with weather capability at a good price that is equally at home in the car or the cockpit. Just don't throw away your iPod.

Incredibly easy to operate right out of the box. The price is right and then some for what you get. Very compact and I don't need 30 wires in the cockpit as the external antenna hasn't been needed.

Battery life is short as advertised but I always have it plugged in anyway. If I lost power the battery is adequate to get to an airport.

A great value not just because of the price but for the ease of use and function. Very glad I bought this unit vs shelling out 3 grand.

to early to respond to durability & reliability questions. was dissapointed over lack of written operators handbook. having to be at a computer to use the cd

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Easy to use. Combination of in the air and on the ground avigation. Perfect for travelling and renting at the destination, e.g. coming to the US, rent a car and having your own navigation device, then renting an airplane and also having the GPS that you are familiar with. Going to other continents, simply exchange the database.SD-Card and you are all set - great!

Battery life is rather short compared to modern cell-phones but good compared to old 195 GPS

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Dual mapping definately a big plus. Once you get the hang of using the scrolling/page feature you can for the most part, find any information you might be looking for, you just have to know where to find it....
Comes with all yoke and suction cup mounts, both work great! Easy to see the large screen, you can use your finger tip to scroll but the stylus really works better..

300 page users manual, on CD, is DEFINATELY not handy in the cockpit, you might need to fly right seat for about 5 hours figuring out how to find everything you need to know about the gps so that you don't present a hazard to other aviators..
Make sure you have a cigarette lighter recepticle because the standard battery is going to give up the ghost after about an hour and fifteen minutes

Overall I 'm very pleased with my purchase. For the features versus dollars, when compared to other portables (Garmin), you just can't beat the value. Even with an additional cost for the XM weather, it is still much less expensive than the nearest competitor...

I can use both flying and driving purpose without buying any other options and also upgradable to weather function. It worked well in our DC9 cockpit. I used ac power souce, so I do not know batt life. Very good to have as a back up!

I'm a slow lerner, it takes a little bit of time to understand how to use.

Good for general VFR flight and back up for IFR operation.

Very user friendly! Easy to use and learn.
Touch-Screen is very easy to use while flying.

Not too readable in direct sunlight.

Overall, good value. Too bad Sporty's charges $20+ for shipping... $10 would be reasonable....

Great GPS for the price. The AV8OR has all of the features I was looking for, and a many more, in a portable aviation GPS.

Short battery life.

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Good value, easy to use.

Can not be used in direct sunlight as advertised.
The $250.00 coupon for the WXWorx receiver kit expired 12/31/2008. I didnt receive the GPS until 1/15/2009.

I dont know if I would have ever gotten the Wx but it would have been nice to have had the discount as advertised.

The best for the money. touch screen greatly facilitates use.

I had to return the cig light adapter - malfunctioning, but with the new one the unit works great.

THE Sensible choice for portable aviation GPS unit.

No external antena needed

I wish it came with the long life battery

Good overall VFR GPS