Mxsmanic wrote:

Ron Garret writes:


For that to be true, RNAV-capable avionics would have to cost $5M. You
can go to Cessna and buy a complete Garmin glass cockpit for about 5% of
that (and they'll throw in a nice carrying case called a 172SP as a
bonus).


A Garmin cockpit may go blank on you one day, and then you'll end up in a
mountainside. Avionics for commercial aircraft are somewhat more rigidly
tested and designed (although still not always well enough, in the case of
software).

Is that how it works in Flight Simulator, the Garmin unit fails and you
hit a mountain?

Bingo! Great game.