Lowrance AirMap 1000

Volume 34
Number 3
March 2004

A large, crisp screen, a GPS-driven flight display and land, sea and air navigation. For $650 discounted, it’s a good value.

The AirMap 1000 is one of the largest portable GPSs yet marketed. Screen measures 5 inches diagonally and has a crisp, supertwist LCD display.

by Larry Anglisano

Following a flurry of market activity in 1999 with its AirMap 100, Lowrance Avionics put itself on the map as a competitor—really the only competitor—for Garmin. Then the market matured and Lowrance went quiet in the aviation field. Last fall, the company got busy again with two new portable GPS navigators, the AirMap 500 and the larger-format AirMap 1000.

In the AirMap 1000, Lowrance is offering a flagship aviation product aimed to set the standard for modern back-up navigation. Portable GPS navigators used to be exciting but with the recent advances in panel-mount technology, many pilots view a portable as cheap insurance in the event of primary system failure.…

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