On 12/6/2005 5:25 PM, wrote the
following:

At first glance, it appears to me that the Garmin 430 provides a LOT of
useful information for relatively not much money.


It's a great box. IMHO, anyway. I don't care so much for
the SL30 nav/com but the 430 is very well thought out.

I have 2 questions though....

to use the glideslope / VOR / LOC functions of the 430, do I have to
have a glide slope indicator and VOR indicator or are these bits of
information displayed on hte 430 unit?


Contrary to a previous response, the G430 does have a glide
slope function as part of the VLOC function. At least the
one that I fly with does. The 430 does not indicate either
the localizer or the glide slope on its screen however. You
need to buy the separate indicator (CDI).

Garmin has a free simulator and free downloads of the
manuals from their web site. Get the sim and the manuals
and you can learn the box in maybe 5 hours. Enough to get
started flying with it and certainly enough to evaluate it
thoroughly. You should have someone who knows the 430 in
the right seat for the first few flights IMHO.

Is this one piece of equipment enough to enable my 172 to be instrument
certified?


No. Required flight instruments are specified in Part 91.