Garmins Latest G1000 Issue...

[NW_Pilot]

Wonder when the first fatality will be caused by a G1000 systems failure! It almost got me last year between Greenland and Iceland. Kinda scary that they have poor quality control in their products that we trust our lives with. I Hope this issue don't put Columbia Aircraft out of business they just laid off 300 employees and stopped production.


"The problem — officially a “higher than normal failure rate” — was discovered during routine flight tests conducted by manufacturers."

Their should be NO Failures!!!! Garmin should have better quality control on this system.

 

[JimNtexas]

Wonder when the first fatality will be caused by a G1000 systems failure! It almost got me last year between Greenland and Iceland....

Did you get red X's or did the attitude display just start giving bogus information?

 

[NW_Pilot]

Did you get red X's or did the attitude display just start giving bogus information?

Lots of Red X then blank screens on both displays but that was caused by something else. The last few G1000's I have flown have had a few software updates in the last year and they have fixed a lot of issues. They still make me uneasy in the soup!!! Thats why I practice partial panel in my 150 to keep sharp. Now only if they can fix the red X issues on the tach's and few other items seems like they use low quality sensors. Great platform for instruments when it works. After 40 or 50 hours in a week it's a bit odd feeling to go back to steam gages.