On JD's advice, I ordered a RAM mount from Aircraft Spruce for myJDH wrote:Bela and others looking to mount their hand helds.
Look at pages 434 & 435 in the latest Spruce catalogue. I got a Ram-O-Mount after seeing them at Oshkosh 5 years ago, when they first came out. They've come up with alot more models since. I mounted the base on the "shelf" the other end mounts to the GPS Map 195's craddle. The beauty of this device is that you can adjust in any axis with one hand, just by turning one big "wing-nut". The 195 is big, high and heavy and I find that despite this, where I have it mounted, being that we sit so high in our 170's, doesn't really obstruct the view. I am thinkinng of going to a 295, but will wait till after Oshkosh this year, cause I too think they may come out with a colour 196 (they already have them for marine and street use), and I will use the Ram-O-Mount to mount it then too. I flew a 185 with a 295 on the yoke and could feel its weight. JD
Garmin 196, and it just showed up today. Neat little contraption! I got the screw-in-base mount version (P/N 11-01766).
The base mount is a circular affair (2.5 inches in diameter),
and I'm going to try to mount it on the side sill trim plate/piece (bottom
of the windshield/side). I might have to trim a bit off of the circular
base mount to make it work, but that's an easy fix.
This mount appears to be a well engineered/fabricated piece of
hardware, and the price was relatively cheap too! ($27 and change).
Thanks for the tip JD
Bela P. Havasreti
'54 C-170B N170BP