Garmin offers convenience while Anywhere Map wins on versatility. For most users, Garmin’s solution makes more sense.

By Frank Bowlin

Control Vision’s Anywhere Map and the Garmin GPSMAP 496 do pretty much the same things. They both offer GPS-driven moving maps with an extensive aviation database. Both can display datalink aviation weather and traffic.

We’ve reviewed both the GPSMAP 496 and the Anywhere Map suite in these pages before, but our objective this time was a head-to-head comparison. To test these devices we went flying, using them side-by-side on one flight and individually on one or more additional flights. …