very nice!
Sporty’s have an ILS capable one and it got very good reviews in Aviation Consumer.
This is one looks smaller and has GPS.
Very tempting!
I have been flirting with the FTA-720 for quite some time (Icom is too expensive) and I was impressed by the build quality of the FTA-230 I saw the other day. I think the 750 changes everything.
Peter, when you get it I’ll make decision based on your review
Wow – this looks impressive. The only thing that would put me off is the keypad design which comes straight from the 1980s..
What type of keypad do you prefer? Touchscreen? No way.
The only thing that would put me off is the keypad design which comes straight from the 1980s
And? They got a lot of things right in the 1980s! But waypoint entry for the GPS could be a bit tedious with this keypad I suppose.
MrFacts: not concerned by the lack of BZT licence? Or is that a thing of the past?
not concerned by the lack of BZT licence?
This has been discussed for ever in the UK. The old Icoms had “CAA approval”. Then, quite a few years ago, the CAA shut its approvals dept (I reckon they didn’t have a radio test lab as such and probably outsourced the testing to the usual £1000/day EMC lab down the road – the EU is packed with these labs, milking the CE compliance gravy train) and no more handheld radios got “CAA approved”. So a lot of people started posting all over the forums that such and such [more recent] handheld cannot be used because it isn’t CAA approved.
I can’t see that anybody cares… Here in the UK it’s even illegal to listen to airband frequencies.
But waypoint entry for the GPS could be a bit tedious with this keypad I suppose.
Possibly applicable to navigating with it, but who will? You can get a far more functional moving map GPS app on any phone – even a Nokia :smike: I would regard the GPS function as good for reading out the coordinates to some airliner passing high above, when you are floating in the life raft. Currently I carry a GPS for that: the Garmin 196 I bought the other day, replacing the old Skymap 2.
Many years ago Garmin made a combined handheld radio+GPS but when I tried to buy it, I couldn’t find a single one.