"The Garmin aera 795 has some features in common with the iPad, but it's meant for aviation and aviation only, and it will thrive in harsh cockpit environments where the iPad and other tablet computers can't and don't." Jim Alpiser, Garmin director of aftermarket sales.
The aera 795 also takes the pilot one step closer to a paperless cockpit with a digital document viewer and scratch pad. The Garmin aera 795 has a high-resolution and sunlight readable 7-inch capacitive touchscreen display that can be viewed in portrait or landscape mode. The physical design has been optimised to fit on the yoke and is sized perfectly as a knee-mounted device. There are four touch keys on the bezel of the unit representing "Back", "Menu", "Direct-To" and "Nearest" for quick navigation to frequently used functions, and because the aera 795 is customisable, the user can also pick favorite features or pages to anchor as icons along the bottom of the screen for even faster access. The display has large, finger-touchable icons with intuitive pictures and labels to indicate their function such as: map, terrain, 3D Vision, WPT info, FPL list, active FPL, numbers, doc viewer, charts and tools. Pilots can choose any of these functions by simply touching the appropriate icon. The touchscreen interface also allows the pilot to quickly pan across the map and pinch/pull zoom.
The 795 is unlikely to win over the Garmin 695 market as the versatile MFD can be hired wired into cockpit panels but we beleive that the aera 795 is actually aimed purely at the iPad market by incorporating some of this popular tablet's best features and packaging them in a sturdy, robust GPS solely for aviation use. All-in-all the Garmin aera 795 is likely to be a very popular Aviation GPS Unit.
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