Thread: What are your Favourite or Most Accurate Garmin Devices?

@IGNATION
Sorry, wasn't really suggesting you would need it as a standby, it was just a general suggestion for others. Although i partly quoted your previous post it was just because that jogged my memory about using XT 'off line/sim-less' in a S60 phone.

I'm guessing we're both early 'baby-boomers', you've obviously spent a lot of time navigating around remote parts of WA and are still alive so I would have bet that not only do you carry at least a spare GPS but also compass & protractor for your paper map. I had 30 years total in CMF/Army Reserve with a 10 yr break early '70s to '80s. When I rejoined around '82 it was like I had never left as far as map reading & navigation was concerned. The Regs were getting Silva compasses, but ARes were still using the old British prismatic ones. GPS was becoming mainstream before I retired and some young blokes just couldn't understand why they needed to know how to use a compass to follow a course on a paper map. When teaching new recruits basic map reading and navigation, I must have heard 1000 times "but why do we have to know this when we can just use GPS?". Of course they'd find out when we'd send them out on their first long (accompanied) nav ex and pinch their GPSs while they were doing a planned diversion around a big obstacle in rough country. Then they would have to keep navigating using triangulation to get a fix and dead reckoning. Not many got back on track first go without help, but they sure learned quick after that.
Nothing like being lost to make you sit up and take notice.....