G1000 experience?

[troy]

We're getting 2 182's with the G1000 avionics installed in them at our school within 2 months. Anybody flown with the upgrade yet? User friendly? How about transitioning from "steam" gages?

 

[Midwest]

Wow, great aircraft with an even better panel.......and you're getting two of them! Our flight school is getting a DA40 with the G1000 in the next few months.

Two Garmin representitaves stopped by with a demonstrator model of the setup. I didn't have the chance to work with it too much, but from my experience, if you can use a 430/530 you can use the G1000. I think the reps said it was about a 5 hour transition period from "steam" gauges to "glass"

Incidentally, another instructor and myself just ate lunch today with a Cessna dealer. He dropped off a whole packet on the G1000 and some basic info on the 182 and 206. (pm me if you want more info)

I think the trend for GA aircraft will be towards glass cockpits.......... eventually.

 

[deadstick]

A buddy of mine said that a pilot who received their IFR ticket utilizing a glass airplane cannot jump into a "steam gauge" plane and blast off into IMC. Anybody have documented supporty one way or the other?

Also, I realize a FD is a different beast in the A/P realm, but why can't these gizmoes at least display a FD w/o coupling it? If the HSI portion is displaying LOC/GS info, why not add a few more lines of code for some bat wings? That would be REAL nice.