"Howard Nelson" wrote in message
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I do have experience with Jeppesen support and it seems very good. I have
a

That's my point- The way Jeppesen sees it, they make (roughly) the same
money selling you an update for a first-generation steam-powered GPS as they
do a G-1000. Discontinuing support for a particular unit would in most cases
cost more than it saves. But what happens if the box needs repair? Are there
3rd-party shops that can fix this stuff, or do you rely on the mfr. giving a
crap? King I'd feel comfortable relying on but Garmin, nope.

All that being said I don't think I could get a decent IFR certified GPS
installed and interfaced to my autopilot (STEC 50) for less than 10K.
Probably would be more.

I wish I had an autopilot that needed interfacing to. Heck, I wish I had an
autopilot period. In any case that adds significantly to install cost. One
of the flight schools on my field has been spending about 6k each putting
IFR GPSs in all their Warriors and Skyhawks over the past couple years.

-cwk.