philiplane
A&P, IA, CFI, CFII, MEI,
There are a few inexpensive, IFR approach capable GPS units available for those of us on a beer budget. The Apollo 2001 NMS is one of those. Fully supported by the Garmin AT division in Salem, Oregon. These are the folks that invented the WAAS GPS. Garmin couldn't do it fast enough, so they bought Apollo, renamed it Garmin AT, and used the technology to transform the GNS series into WAAS units in 2007. Apollo had their CNX-80 WAAS certified years before Garmin. The Apollo CNX-80 became the Garmin GNS-480. The CNX-80 is the follow-on to the original IFR approach GPS, the Apollo 2001 NMS. The 2001 is not moving map, but it can drive one such as the MX-20 and also many compatible handhelds. Best of all, if you still don't have an IFR GPS in your panel, you don't have to spend $15K to get one. You only need about $2k for one of these units, installed with a stand-alone MD-40-65L CDI or interfaced to any common CDI with an annunciator switch unit.
One is on ebay now.
One is on ebay now.
