NetHeads, I recently bought a Lowrance Airmap 1000. It's a great unit, but I was disappointed in the visibility of screen in my open cockpit KR2S under full sunlight (it's great when it's cloudy). The screen is the usual LCD black on silver background, but the plastic that covers the display is polished to a high gloss (which makes no sense to me), causing reflections of everything inside the cockpit to make it very difficult to see past this "mirror". I started looking for anti-glare stuff, and finally found the stuff below. They make "custom fit" anti-glare plastic sheets for various PDAs, iPods, and a few GPSs, but I had to order this expensive sheet and cut it down to get one big enough for the Airmap 1000's screen. So if you have a similar problem, this stuff works! This large sheet is not on their website, so you have to call to order it. Make sure you say "anti-glare", because they have two versions of it.
> >ClearTouch Anti-Glare 9 x 12 ClearTouch Sheet is $35.00 +$7.50 s&h. > > BoxWave Corporation > > http://www.boxwave.com >> 425-828-6641, between 11 am and 5 pm PST. I flew with it today and it really solved the problem! I don't understand why Lowrance wouldn't just sell it with a dull screen to start with. No idea why anybody would want a glossy screen when it creates that kind of glare problem. The other thing that I miss about my Garmin is the icons that represent airports. On the Garmin each airport is displayed with an icon that clearly shows it's runway orientation, an imitation of the way airports are displayed on a sectional. On the Airmap, all the runways look like they run north and south. Maybe they can be talked into improving that, because that comes in handy on windy days when you need to stop for fuel and don't want to search through a bunch of "nearby" airports to find one that's oriented into the wind... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
