If you are looking for a GPS that can handle air, land and water navigation look no further than the GPSMAP 196. If you are looking for the best aviation GPS available the GPSMAP 196 is the right one for you. This WAAS Capable unit has detailed moving map graphics, HSI steering guidance, a Jeppesen database, and all the other pilot-friendly features you'd expect from GARMIN. You'll be amazed at the exceptional resolution and contrast on this unit's 12-level grayscale display, and its lightning-fast processor makes for extremely fast map redraws and scrolling. Situational awareness gets a boost from built-in land detail that includes political boundaries, cities, interstates, roads, rivers, and lakes. Steering guidance is clearly presented through a graphic HSI with VNAV, with extended runway centerlines to help orient you to the runway. An automatic logbook also calculates your flight time and automatically records departure and arrival locations. When used with GARMIN logbook software (exclusively made for the GPSMAP 196), this feature makes light work of maintaining your logbook. This flight information is stored in the unit, and can be downloaded to GARMIN logbook software (free from this site in August 2002). The GPSMAP 196 compromises nothing in its versatility, going from cockpit to land to water. In fact, it offers some of the same features found in expensive in-dash car navigation systems, including auto routing. In addition to the built-in GARMIN basemap, the GPSMAP 196 accepts most of our MapSource(tm) products. I rate the GPSMAP 196 5 out of 5 stars.