Peter,

I think the #1 risk with "GA priced"
glass cockpits is whether the designers actually know that these
products are being used in aeroplanes and not sitting on a home cinema
shelf, and building them accordingly.

Uh, have you missed the 430/530 "revolution" these last years?


Glass cockpits are a great opportunity to make GA avionics reliable;
the question is whether anyone is actually going to do it.


See above. People have picked up these units at an absolutely
astonishing rate, putting them in planes often not worth much more than
the ensuing avionics install.

Don't worry - this is definitely in the "build it and they will come"
category.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)