I also fly a C-182 with G1000 although my personal airplane in an M20.
The glass cockpit is nice but it sure seems to suck the useful load out
of a C-182. I have more useful load in my Mooney and the 182 burns 3
gals/hr more to go 20% slower than the Mooney.
However, I love being able to download METARs from across the country
and listen to XM radio in the cockpit. Also the C-182's TIS traffic
system is better than the PCAS I have in the M20.

-Robert


wrote:
I have just finished two concurent aircraft learning programs

1)Getting my instrument currency back.
doing some paractice, taking a IPC.
All done in a round dial 172.

2)Getting checked out in a G1000 182.
I've finished the King G1000 VFR and IFR course and spent about
6 hours in the G1000, I've also finished theG1000 182 VFR checkout.