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Yes, as navigator I always use the satnav ( TT700). I do however always check with the map even if the co-ordinates come from a reliable source. I also keep the maps handy throughout the journey and keep an eye on where we are.
Yes, as navigator I always use the satnav ( TT700). I do however always check with the map even if the co-ordinates come from a reliable source. I also keep the maps handy throughout the journey and keep an eye on where we are.
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I'm with Grizzly on this one - we do exactly that. It is vital to use the satnav with a healthy degree of suspicion in any vehicle, especially in your pride and joy, unless you really do enjoy reversing a mile, back up a hill, on a very muddy single track road in a Fiat X250..... having found that there is an unpassable ford (river, that is) in the way.
Maps still play a large part of the DuxDeluxe route planning......
I use the sat nav but don't really trust her, so swmbo has the maps to hand just incase I need another route
Means I took the wrong turn
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stopped using our navman n60i ast they charge nearly Ģ80 for updated already out of date maps grrrrrrrr.
only use my phone now, google navigation is the dogs danglies.
It has been suggested that many members do not use Sat. Nav. This surprised me so I thought I would ask, Alan.
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I wouldn't be without it at all, when it didn't work once whilst in France, we almost gave up and came home, we had had such a huge problem finding the aires, but this was in 2004, and things and signs have improved, but we find it invaluable....
To me a necessity to driving in France.
Carol
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We have learnt from experience always to plan our route with a map first and keep it handy on the journey because the SatNav sometimes doesn't get it right.
She does nag a bit too if we don't do exactly as she says so sometimes we switch her off!
Maps only for me and a look on Google aerial view so I can see where I am hoping to go.
The number of times I have heard "well our Satnav brought us this way".
I also love stories of "ooooh our satnav lost the signal and we were in a right pickle."
Part of the fun for a trip for me is planning where to go....and if I can't find that place, a strange thing happens. I wind down the window and speak to someone.
About ten years ago I went to Lido di Jesolo for the first time and had no idea where the particular hotel was. I headed for the centew, stopped a passer by and invited him, and his dog on to the coach to direct us! Exactly the same in the past when trying to find the Novotel in The Hague.
My motorhome came with sat nav as standard - and a reverse monitor. I would have preferred to have had the motorhome without these extras and thus not paid for two things I do not use.
Russell
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