The portable color Garmin 96C along with the grayscale Garmin 96 combine a pilot-friendly operating system with powerful navigation features and great value — giving you the freedom to go anywhere.
Enhance Situational Awarenes
Garmin 96C offers a built-in Jeppesen® database and a U.S. database of obstacles, for the ultimate in situational awareness. View Jeppesen airport data overlaid on a map and receive alerts when potential obstacles loom ahead. In addition, the Garmin 96C shows localizer-like runway extensions and graphic HIS steering with GPS-derived VNAV for added orientation.
View Images in Sharp Detail
Garmin 96C features a bright sunlight-readable color display that makes map detail easy to read. Its simple keypad and streamlined design literally put the world of GPS capability in the palm of your hand.
Automate Your Logbook
A built-in logbook tracks your flying hours and automatically records departure and arrival locations. When used with Garmin's free logbook software, FlightBook, you can simplify your record keeping by creating, managing, analyzing, saving and printing flight data from the Garmin 96C's logbook.
Navigate by Air, Land or Sea
Garmin 96C's three navigation modes and built-in autorouting basemap let you go from plane to car to boat to hiking boots without missing a beat. With 119 megabytes of memory and a mini-USB port, you can quickly download and store map data from a variety of optional MapSource® products. Add detailed street maps for street navigation. Or, for a great day on the water, customize the waterproof 96C with marine cartography. The Garmin 96C also operates on 2 AA batteries, making it easy to use on foot.
Garmin 96C: Go from plane to boat to automobile without missing a beat.
Are you looking for a discount on the Garmin 96C? If you already own a portable GPS unit, trade it in on the purchase of a new Garmin GPS unit.
Trade-In Steps:
(please note: You don't have to worry about being without a GPS unit because you have 15 days from the date you receive your new unit to send in your trade-in unit)
- Purchase your new GPS unit and you will receive a receipt via email that will include a link to a trade-in form.
- Fill out the form completely with the details of your trade-in unit and submit it.
- We will send you a Return Authorization (RA) number via email to be used and placed in the box of your trade-in unit.
- Mail your unit to:
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U.S. Postal Service
Tropic Aero
5360 NW 20th Terrace
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
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UPS, Fed Ex, etc.
Tropic Aero
5320 NW 20th Terrace
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
- When we receive your trade-in unit and our service department has verified that it's complete and working, we will credit the credit used to purchase the new unit the value of your trade-in unit.
- CLICK HERE to view trade-in values and requirements.
Write a Review
Rating: 5 of 5
"Garmin GPSMap 96c - Short Review"
7/18/2005 by Matthieu in California
During my quest for the best GPS I could afford, I was unable to find any review of this device anywhere on the internet. That's the reason why I'll write a quick review of it here. It'll only cover the aviation part.
The Screen:
One of the first things that struck me with this GPS is the screen. I was afraid the display dimensions would be too small to read anything on it (160x240-pixel, 256-color), but the people at Garmin really did a great job to make everything clear and crisp.
It is very readable, even under direct sunlight. I kept the GPS on my laps during the whole flight and I never had any problem reading the information on the screen in any of the display modes.
The backlight is quite good as well, but I didn't use it during this flight, it was on only while learning how to use the GPS at home.
Learning:
Once you figure out the way the menus work, you can do anything in the 96c without any problem. The owner's manual is good, although some parts lack explanations.
Flight Planning:
I thought planning my flight on a device with 8 buttons and a directional pad would be a pain, but it was not !
The flight planner can create routes from a lookup by name, or a visual edition directly on the map. I programmed my flight in the GPS in a couple of minutes from the route I had planned on my 'real chart' of the area.
The flight was in a PA-28 from Lognes (LFPL) to St Cyr L'Ecole (LFPZ).
During the Flight:
During the flight, I didn't have any problem with the GPS whatsoever. It worked like a charm with no signal loss, even when it was sitting on my laps. The big numbers on the screen helped my read the information quickly, allowing me to concentrate on the vital flight stuff.
I found this very reinsuring compared to the times when I didn't have a GPS on board with me. Now instead of being sure of where, I'm *really* sure of where I am, and that counts when you fly in the vicinity of the weirdly shaped Paris Class A airspaces.
The waypoint switch was seamless. When passing near a waypoint, the GPS automatically switched to the next waypoint in the flight plan.
The page I used the most during the flight was the Moving Map Page with 4 data fields, including the ETE to next, Bearing, the Distance to next and the Time to next. Of course, this was combined with the 1/250'000 map of the region on my laps as well.
Battery Life:
So far, I'm impressed! Almost 15 hours of use (okay okay, I play with it a lot, and I use it when I'm in a car as well) and most of these 15 hours were spent with backlight on. The battery indicator now tells me 2 out of 4 bars. It really beats the PDA-GPS with their 2 hours top battery life.
Log Book:
I was surprised after the two flights to see that both of them had been logged in the logbook section of the GPS.
Tracks:
The track feature of the GPS is stunning. After the flight, I could review my flight path, and get the time at each position on the track. In this case, it couldn't be a succession of straight lines, I had to avoid a lot of cities along the way. (maximum altitude was 1500ftQNH)
Reception:
No problem at all during the flight, I got a correct signal all the way to St Cyr and back.
