This is all Apple's fault. The company's iPad has conditioned all of us to paw computer screens. Whether it's a 4-year-old learning to spell with a reading app, or a pilot modifying a flight plan, these days we all have the same reflex. Garmin knows resistance to this now deeply ingrained behavior is futile, and the company incorporated a touchscreen into its new, non-TSO G3X Touch in early 2014.1 had the opportunity to fly a Touch-equipped Carbon Cub during a recent trip to the Idaho wilderness, and the powerful new avionics system in the mountain surroundings made quite an impression.
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