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The Garmin Rino 530 - A Serious Outdoor Gadget

by Darren

Depending on how much you love the outdoors, The Garmin Rino 530 may be a gadget you can’t live without. This could be the difference between being lost, or knowing exactly where you are.

The brilliant colors of the GNS 530’s 5-inch display make the pilot-critical information easy to read and interpret. Thanks to a high-contrast color display, the information can be easily read from wide viewing angles even in direct sunlight. It’s especially true of the 530’s basemap. Pilot’s will enjoy enhanced situational awareness by seeing their position relative to cities, highways, railroads, rivers, lakes, and coastlines. But even more important, the appropriate use of color separates land data, terminal areas, route, and approach information for easy pilot scanning and reduced pilot workload. Simply put, the GNS 530 incorporates advanced procedure types usually found only in high-end FMS systems.

The unit retails for around $550, but when it comes to something as important as your positioning, it just might be worth it, depending on how far you travel in the boondocks.