Cancelling took over 20 minutes, a further testament to how poor their tech is. The only time I was actually able to get a person on the phone was when I wanted to cancel my subscription as I couldn’t figure out how to do it online (because their website is atrocious).

Get on any of the forums and put a gripe on about SPOT and you will find a lot of angry people. I contacted a lot of my tech friends to try to get answers to my questions, and they had the same gripe- that SPOT’s customer service is absolutely infuriatingly awful. In that time I tried to contact tech support over 30 times, by phone and by email.

Cost: SPOT* (HUGE asterisk here, read on).

Associated APP (Earthmate vs SPOT Connect): Delorme.

Here are the things that to me are the key elements of these devices, and which unit, in my opinion wins. So, the moral here is that if you are doing something remote and slightly dangerous like flying, you NEED to use a tracking device, endstop.

But if he’d had a tracking device on that day, the rescue would have been a much simpler affair and saved thousands of dollars (not to mention a mountain of stress). The search was successful and Guy is fine. The local community pulled together immediately and launched a major search, which involved 4X4 ATV’s, Dirtbikes, Black Hawk Helicopters, and thousands of man hours. We all got to see the value of using one first hand at the Sun Valley PWC in 2012 when expert pilot British pilot Guy Anderson disappeared for two days after a crash in a very remote part of Idaho. I’ve used both extensively, all over the world. This post is an attempt at a comprehensive answer to that question.

Topo North America 10.I get asked by a lot of pilots about which tracker, SPOT or Delorme is better.

DeLorme Topo North America 10.0 now includes data for 38 national parks and 100 provincial parks in Canada, as well as elevation data for all of the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

enjoy highly detailed lake, river and stream data for all 50 U.S.

Road and trail data across North America includes more than 800,000 new road names in the U.S.

Find public recreation lands, see elevation profiles and customize and print maps at a wide range of scales, and then navigate worry-free by car, on foot or across the water.

Scout your destination as if you were there with new terrain, trail and road detail fly over realistic 3D and aerial imagery and map out your travels over roads and trails.

Delorme topo north america 10 free app