Remember Your First

[mocfly]

I came across these pics of my very first GPS. A Christmas present from my children so i wouldn't get lost. 

Seems like a lifetime ago. 

 

[FlyingMonkey]

My first aviation GPS was an AnywhereMap ATC.  Great idea, poor execution.  I'd rather forget it.

[CT4ME]

Magellan 2000... Then a Garmin GPS II.  No real map, just coordinates.   Then upgraded to a "mapping" product, the Garmin eMap.

tim

[Tom Baker]

The first for me was a Garmin 90 bought at Sun'nFun 1995. I used it on my trip home, and never looked back. 

[Runtoeat]

I've still got my Nokia bag cell phone gathering dust under my workbench.  Needed a huge 12v. battery and probably weighed 5 pounds.  It was so cool to have a phone in the car because the cars I drove in those days weren't worth as much as the phone and there was always the chance of breaking down and being left stranded.  The GPS and cell phones have transformed mankind.  Gotta believe that there'll come the day when we'll just go the to "Transporter Room" and "get beamed up"!

[Ed Cesnalis]

My first GPS was panel mounted in my Skyhawk.  It displayed both bearing and track in degrees.  Make those 2 numbers  match and no more zig-zaging via VORs   

[coppercity]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

[sandpiper]

I think my first GPS was a panel  slip in that replaced a LORAN. I think both were Apollo brands. Didn't Apollo get merged into Garmin?

 

My first moving map GPS was a Garmin 196. 

[Tunny]

Apollo was the brand name of Oregon Aviation Technology Company, II Morrow, which was acquired by UPS in 1986. Yes the same company that drives the brown trucks.

 

Then UPS sold the company to Garmin.

 

Had a II Morrow Apollo 612B Loran Navigator, which was one of the best, GA Loran units, at the time.  Good accuracy, just not great accuracy.

 

Today the iPhone has much better capabilities.  My how times have changed.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

 

Like this?

 

[Doug G.]

Pay no attention to the man beside the console!

[FastEddieB]

Pretty sure mine was a Garmin 95XL as well.

 

Look up coordinates and navigate to any point on the planet!

 

A pilot's dream come true!!!

[coppercity]

Like this?

 

I like the steering wheel, does that control the cursor?

[FlyingMonkey]

I like the steering wheel, does that control the cursor?

 

No, you spin that to make it compute stuff...hamsters are too expensive.  

[Anticept]

No, you spin that to make it compute stuff...hamsters are too expensive.  

Use chinese hamsters. They work for a fraction of the food.