Buy Garmin Aera 500 4.3-inch portable GPS navigator for aircraft. Works great in Africa and Asia.

User reviews and overview Garmin Aera 500.

Air navigation has reached a new level of awareness with Garmin Aera 500. The navigation systems has the transition capability from aircraft to automotive mode.

User feedback: “I consider this the best GPS for aviation, not to mention its transition capabilities, the avia navigation keeps me safe with its new level of awareness.”

Dual-duty GPS Portable.

Aera 500 combines the best in moving-map display features with intuitive, menu-driven touchscreen control. Featuring a crisp 4.3-inch QVGA wide-format touchscreen and preloaded graphical mapping, this versatile, feature-rich navigator comes ready for takeoff, right out of the box. 

Detailed Avia Navigation.

Its detailed chart-style shaded mapping and extensive terrain and aviation databases (including private airports and heliports) help you visualize your flight path in relation to nearby navaids, terrain, SUAs, obstructions, and more. Stay aware of special airspace activity with more than 683 parachute drop zone details in the Americas navigation database. Terrain/obstacle detail is shown in standard 30 arc-second resolution. Internal GPS updates at a rate of 5 times per second (5 Hz), allowing your moving map and flight data to display smoothly and continuously. For added safety, a database-driven terrain advisory feature offers TAWS-like color coding and pop-up alerts when possible obstructions or ground proximity conflicts loom. Environmental Situational Awareness. The graphical Terrain page on the 510 offers both overhead and vertical profile views of the landscape beneath you. An IFR map mode displays and navigates on high or low enroute airways — while using your touchscreen map cursor to reference MEAs (Minimum Enroute Altitudes) and distances between intersections. For traffic awareness, an optional power/data cable (sold separately) makes it easy to interface your aera with the GTX 330 Mode S transponder in your aircraft, thus enabling you to access and display TIS traffic alerts in busy terminal airspace. Use the aera to load communications frequencies into your SL 40 Comm or SL 30 Nav/Comm transceiver.

Full Automotive GPS Capability.

The aera has full automotive GPS capability and preloaded City Navigator® NT street maps. The 510 offers voice-guided turn-by-turn directions with text-to-speech audio technology that speaks street names, much like our popular nüvi® line of touchscreen automotive navigators. Built-in Bluetooth® supports wireless hands-free calling. And the aera’s built-in database of points of interest offers helpful guidance to millions of motels, restaurants, gas stations, ATMs and other local attractions. Use the SiriusXM satellite capability to watch the weather or listen to SiriusXM Satellite Radio while driving. To quickly transition from aircraft to automotive mode, a unique smart mount for the aera offers instant clip-and-go car navigation.

Delivery package.

What you get when buying Garmin Aera 500:

• aera 500
• Free single database update
• Yoke mount with power cable
• Battery pack
• Portable friction mount
• USB cable
• AC adapter
• Vehicle power cable
• Pilot's guide and owner's manual

Specs.

General
Physical dimensions
Weight	9.5 ounces (270 g)
Water rating	IPX7
Battery type	removable, rechargeable lithium-ion
Display type	touchscreen WQVGA color TFT with white backlight
Display size
Display resolution	480 x 272 pixels
Battery life	up to 5 hours (less with full backlight and options)
Memory/history	internal solid state
IFR or VFR	VFR
Maps & Memory
Basemap	y
Preloaded street maps	y
Ability to add maps	y
Accepts data cards	yes (microSD™ cards)
Custom POIs (ability to add additional points of interest)	Yes (auto mode)
Waypoints/favorites/locations	3,000 (aviation mode); 1,000 (automotive mode)
Routes	50
Databases
Navigation database (includes Jeppesen® data)	y
Navigation database coverage areas	Americas or Atlantic or Pacific
Types of Jeppesen data	full and ARTCC, FSS frequencies and final approach waypoints
Preloaded Terrain database	y
Preloaded Obstacle database	Yes (U.S. and Europe only)
Preloaded SafeTaxi™ airport diagrams	Not available
Preloaded AOPA Airport Directory	Not available
Preloaded low & high altitude enroute airways	y
Preloaded private airports	Yes (U.S. only)
Navigation Features
Speaks street names (e.g. "Turn right ON ELM STREET in 500 ft.")	Yes (auto mode)
Aviation Portable Features
Moving map	y
Patented panel page	y
HSI (GPS-based)	y
IFR map mode	y
Audible terrain alerts	y
Terrain resolution	standard
Smart Airspace Feature (generates and displays altitude-sensitive alerts)	y
Automatic logbook	y
Separate serial and USB interfaces	y
3-D map view	Yes (auto mode)
Additional
Additional	GPS receiver has a nominal operating velocity range of 0 – 800 kts (411 m/s)