On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:18:26 -0700, NW_Pilot wrote:

Yes, it was coupled to the G1000 and was useless!

Why?

The Garmin audio panel in our planes has a nifty feature. If the panel is
powered down, the pilot's headset is connected to COM1. Thus,
communication survives the failure of the audio panel.

They didn't do the same thing with the connectivity in the G1000 from
the sensors to the autopilot?

Are you sure that it wasn't the failure of the AHRS1 (which I saw in one
of your photos) which took out the AP? Not that this makes too much of a
difference to the pilot in your scenario, I suppose, but I'm growing quite
curious (in a negative way) during this thread regarding how the G1000 is
architected.

- Andrew