On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 21:48:33 GMT, Greg Esres
wrote:

It took me around 5 hours to get the system down for IFR
(partial panel, approaches, futzing around with flight plans, etc), so
IMO (and from what our instructors say) about 6-7 hours is the average
to get used to the system and flying approaches with it. Obviously,
YMMV.

Would already being familiar with 430/530 operations reduce that any,
do you think?

Sorry, only been behind Bendix/King stuff before my G1000 182 work. I
do hear that the systems are similar though, so you might be able to
cut some additional time off, but I couldn't start to quantify it.