On 25 Oct 2006 18:28:57 -0700, "cjcampbell"
wrote in
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Larry Dighera wrote:


I don't need a scientific degree in logic to understand even without
reading the POH that when the screen goes black, all those nifty things
which were on that very screen before are, well, not available anymore.

True. But I wasn't aware that the autopilot wouldn't even work as a
wing leveler.


Whatever made you think that it would? The autopilot is obviously
electrical.


In the scenario I have in mind (Mr. Rhine's recent ferry trip), he
didn't lose electrical power. The G1000 went into infinite re-boot
mode.

Besides, pilots flew with "only ASI, AI, VSI, Alt. and magnetic compass
steam gages" for decades, so what's the big deal.

They usually had some sort of fuel gage.


The fuel gauges in Skyhawks have been electrical for decades. We have
been losing them in power failures for more than thirty years.

Despite the electrical system being operational, the fuel gages are
part of the non-functional G1000.