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Your cart is empty.Dual-frequency ADS-B "In" Receiver and SiriusXM® Satellite LinkReceive SiriusXM Aviation satellite weather and digital audio entertainment¹ plus subscription-free ADS-B U.S. datalink weather² and trafficADS-B "dual-link" traffic with TargetTrend™ and TerminalTraffic™ technology4Wireless connectivity for display on select mobile device apps and Garmin portablesProvides GPS position data, backup attitude5 and moreReceive the first three-months of a monthly subscription to the SiriusXM Pilot Preferred aviation weather package and the SiriusXM All Access audio programming package at no cost with GDL 52Providing an easy-to-use and completely portable aviation satellite link, the compact GDL 52 combines SiriusXM coverage — accessible from ground or air — with the subscription-free weather and traffic features of an ADS-B "In" datalink. Together, these 2 network link technologies bring a world of safety-enhancing features — plus access to more than 150 channels of digital-quality music, news, sports and other entertainment programming — directly to your cockpit. Better still, you can use our Connext® wireless connectivity to stream this information onto multiple Garmin aviation portables (including aera® 660, aera 796 or aera 795 series) as well as iPad® tablets and mobile devices with the Garmin Pilot™ app. So you get more access — on more devices — without spending more money.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2024
I’ve had it 3 years and the battery is dead, it won’t charge and it won’t turn on. Now it’s a $1,200 paperweight.
Shane Schmidt
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2024
Yep it's pricey, and the weather subscription is also pricey. But it is an invaluable add to the flight deck for any pilot. The battery life is subpar for any full day of flying. It'll stay charged for a full length leg, but then it needs a big charge or add another cable to the dashboard for it. Also, very susceptible to overheating for functional placement. Plan on purchasing a breathable cover of some kind to protect against it but retain signal strength. I use a small sun shade.
Jack
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2024
Got the GDL 52, green SXM light, subscription shows as “Pilot Preferred”, get XM music, but no XM weather data. Don’t care about music… SiriusXM Aviation support was good, the regular SiriusXM support was a disaster. Now waiting on Garmin Aviation to reply… but very disappointed. Would expect a $1,300 device to work as expected and expect that Garmin would test each device before sending it out.
Daniel Jorgensen
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2022
Works great! But!!! Huge but! I like another poster have found that the USB port broke off! I'm just straight up returning this unit. Too expensive of a unit to have a cheap break
James
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2020
I've only had this for a couple weeks, but so far the GDL 52 is much more reliable than the GDL 39D I had before it. The GDL 39D constantly dropped the connection to the satellites and to the iPad, so attitude information as sketchy, at best. The GDL 52 has yet to drop the connection. I did notice, however, that the 52 attitude information takes a while to catch up with the actual attitude. If you level out, for example, the 52 will take a while to return the attitude indicator to level flight.
Mike
Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2020
Sirrius Antenna has to behind Glas, open view. Reset needed ones since in use. Sirius proposed a $250 credit with the voucher - waiting for two month now to get something back. Not Garmin fault.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2020
A function was not working on my unit (power saver function), called Garmin but they were no help....as usual!Garmin makes great product but this unit seemed to be defective on the power saver function; I was going to sent it back, but used it a few time in the aircraft and all other functions seemed to work well, I can live with one small function not working, just wished Garmin had been more receptive to my problem. Also, today tried to pair a Bluetooth headset (lightspeed AV 200) and could not get it to work, don't know if its the GDL 52 or my Aera 796; the Aera says 'already at capacity for paired devices' and I only have the GDL connected?
ScottN777
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2019
Product working great so far when charged. However, I'm not sure the device charges at the same time of being on. Appears you must turn it off to charge. Not sure if being connected to a charging block and on at the same time will work. I will test this again.
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