Partial Panel w/Garmin G1000

SierraPilot123 said:
We have 2 that are 1.5 years old, tons of use and the screens look as good as new when they are clean.
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Tracy as you know we nearly are exclusively Glass now and have yet to have any issues with them. I mean from time to time we will lose a screen during flight however it typically comes right back. Where I hear with your system in the SR it may take 30 mins or longer to get the screen back if it were to flicker or disapear due to various reasons? But so far I've done nearly 200 hours in a G-1000 hte last 5 months and no issues at all.
 
meyers9163 said:
Tracy as you know we nearly are exclusively Glass now and have yet to have any issues with them. I mean from time to time we will lose a screen during flight however it typically comes right back. Where I hear with your system in the SR it may take 30 mins or longer to get the screen back if it were to flicker or disapear due to various reasons? But so far I've done nearly 200 hours in a G-1000 hte last 5 months and no issues at all.
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Glad no problems, but what is the age of your aircraft? I was told by an aircraft manufacturer of the issue as told to them by Garmin. Never heard of issues with the Avidyne switching (flickering) off on. Failures I have seen have been related to AHRS, not the screen itself.
 
Cessnaflyer said:
Why can't you do a VOR with the backups?
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Because you only have the MFD for course guidance. Your VOR NAV display is on the PFD, which was just dimmed. So, you have to use the GPS approach, the line on the MFD and your XTRK at the top for course guidance. You don't have the standard NAV display anymore. I didn't see a steam NAV gauge for backup in the Cirrus system, so even that system has all electronic displays. You've still got the ASI, AI and Altimeter in both systems as a steam backup.

Now, in real life, you probably wouldn't lose the PFD AND the ability to throw it into reversionary mode. Hit the red button, and you've got your instruments back, just on the MFD screen. The simulated partial panel is a much worse situation that what you're likely to get in an actual failure. Losing the PFD AND reversionary mode would be EXTREMELY unlikely.
 
ComplexHiAv8r said:
Not sure but I have gone over a year (knock on wood) with no problems on the Avidyne. I am hearing that G1000 with 1+ years on it are having problems with the screen delaminating in the corners. Anyone see this yet?
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I think the problem is that of with the warriors implementation and not with the avidyne system. I read a memo or warning from piper about it at school but I am not sure of what they are doing of solving it. I heard rumots that it's going to be the G1000 next.
 
kellwolf said:
Because you only have the MFD for course guidance. Your VOR NAV display is on the PFD, which was just dimmed. So, you have to use the GPS approach, the line on the MFD and your XTRK at the top for course guidance. You don't have the standard NAV display anymore. I didn't see a steam NAV gauge for backup in the Cirrus system, so even that system has all electronic displays. You've still got the ASI, AI and Altimeter in both systems as a steam backup.

Now, in real life, you probably wouldn't lose the PFD AND the ability to throw it into reversionary mode. Hit the red button, and you've got your instruments back, just on the MFD screen. The simulated partial panel is a much worse situation that what you're likely to get in an actual failure. Losing the PFD AND reversionary mode would be EXTREMELY unlikely.
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I think that is strange to atleast not have one ground based nav backup. The reliability on one of our systems is so poor that the school won't allow us to take it IMC. It's gotten better with updates and a fresh annual which found a lose plug or two I guess.
 
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