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Garmin is excited to announce its partnership with FOX’s awarding-winning drama, "24," in anticipation of the Day 7 premiere. The two-night, four-hour event airs Sunday, Jan. 11 and Monday, Jan. 12 8/7C on FOX. Leading up to the season premiere, weekly webisodes will go live where fans can see Garmin navigation (a GPSMAP 396, Oregon 400t, Foretrex 201, Rino 530HCx, Garmin Mobile XT and...

The FAA recently announced something that’s no surprise to those with Garmin WAAS enabled equipment, but it is worth the post just to point out how times are changing.  The FAA announcement I’m referring to is that GPS LPV (localizer performance with vertical navigation) approaches now outnumber ILS approaches. They’ve also made a commitment to [...] The post WAAS: accuracy when accuracy counts appeared...

Today we shared some big news from our aviation team. We received the FAA’s ODA approval! We know that last sentence has lots of acronyms, so allow us to clarify it a bit. The FAA has implemented a program that will allow them to delegate more authority to select companies. ODA, or Organization Designation Authorization, [...] The post Garmin Receives ODA Approval from FAA...