This new Garmin AERA touch-screen GPS is pretty to look at, fun to play with, technical hip. But pretty, fun, and hip rob your attention. In the old days of GPS you could, at half-glance, feel around for that familiar button and confirm with a tangible click. In the new age of GPS, inputs are tactile-free and silent.

Touch-screen tech makes you look. And that makes you look away. When you screw touch-screen technology to a yoke-mount, it bobs and weaves like a free-range chicken. Each time the yoke moves, your GPS moves. It’s never where you saw it, last time you saw it. Without your full attention, you don’t know where your finger is or where it’s been. So is the insidious secret of touch-screen programming: It’s a time-suck. It rearranges your command priorities by making you look.

The G-Force GPS Mount

• Manages your cockpit Resources
  
• Restores your priorities
  
• Returns valuable seconds to your command