I'm in the midst of doing two things....
1)Becoming instrument recurrent. (Steam guage airplanes)

2)Getting checked out in a G1000 182.

I'm planning to do the IPC in the Steam guage airplane with some additional instrument work in the G1000.


My real question is how would you do the partial panel approach part of an IPC in the G1000?

There are several ways I know of to simulate a failure on the G1000,
none of which allows one do do a partial panel approach:

1)Dim the display to the point of not being readable.
This leaves the backup instruments for aircraft control, but no source of nav infomation.
If your IPC partial panel approach is anything other than GPS you have no guidance at all.
If it is GPS then all you have is the moving map.


2)Dim the PFD display then switch to revisonary mode...
Just like flying with no failure only reading the instruments from the
co-pilot side. Good practice, but no where near as hard as flying a
partial panel approach with steam guages.


3)Pull the breakers for AHARS/ADC breakers, this simulates AHARS and ADC failures and leaves nav indicators,
but it kills Mode C so ATC is not happy.


For training purposes it would be real nice if you could articicially fail individual
parts of the G1000 AHRS, NAV1, air data etc...




Paul