Garmin recently announced its new VHF navcomm radios that nicely complement its line of compact touchscreen GPS navigators. Sporting a crisp, high-resolution display, they are nicely equipped with a variety of handy features and a smart feature set. It was showing the radio off at Sun ‘n Fun 2024 in Florida and Kitplanes contributor Larry Anglisano got a product tour from Garmin’s Jim Alpiser.
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The old SL-30 had a wonderful NAV radio monitor function that would display radial from the standby NAV frequency while the primary frequency would do ILS or VOR. Very handy back when crossing radials were commonly used.