Garmin Blog

Last week, 12,000 top off-roaders invaded Moab, Utah, for the 44th annual Jeep Easter Safari. With storms in the forecast, it was comforting to know that parked at Jeep's display was Garmin’s Severe Weather Emergency Response Vehicle (SWERV). Here's how Chris Weiss from MotorCrave described the scene: Underneath all the graphics and hardware is a Jeep Liberty turned “Severe Weather Emergency Response Vehicle”. If...

Today's Ask Garmin question comes from Dave L. in Florida who writes: "I just installed a new Garmin chartplotter, VHF radio and an AIS receiver on my boat. With this equipment, what's the process of contacting an AIS target that appears on my plotter screen?" Thanks for the good question, Dave. At Garmin, we know that having an AIS traffic [...] The post Ask Garmin: Contacting an AIS target...

Reviews of the G3X are starting to appear, and light sport and experimental aircraft owners are cheering about the newest avionics system on the block. According to a recent report from AOPA Pilot magazine, “it’s hard to comprehend that sport aircraft and LSAs are being fitted with glass panels, solid-state ADAHRS; and 12-channel, WAAS–enabled GPS [...] The post G3X: Transforming one plane at a...