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Old 03-07-2016, 11:05 AM   #5
twistedtree
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I agree with bleeding out the system. That's a prerequisite to a pilot anyway.

As for pilots, I have had the current models from Simrad and Furuno. Both support NMEA 2000. The simrad pilots steer very well, but I have had interfacing challenges with them, and know other people who have too. The Furuno NavPilot 700 is my current favorite. Supports both N2K and 0183 so will interface to pretty much anything. And it has a knob for steering which I really like.

Comnav is all 0183 only. I don't know about Ray or Garmin.
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