New Garmin 396

In 2200 hours of flying, I've never had a RAIM failure on my IFR GPS.
Trying to shoot an approach with a handheld, the problem is the unit
being in your scan. If it were permanently mounted and you were
familiar with it, it could work. I never do GPS approaches much anyway.
I take the ILS if I can.

"Jose" wrote in message
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His destination and all options only have GPS instrument approaches, or
all
his other IFR instruments crapped out.

If all the other IFR instruments crapped out, something is seriously wrong
that needs fixing. Go to the VFR alternate. If, once VFR, the weather at
the destination allows VFR flying, then fly VFR to the destination
(assuming it is unlikely that the rest of the airplane will fall apart,
leaving the pilot clutching the 396 and an empty yoke, like in the
cartoons.

What he is thinking of doing, is not telling anyone that his other stuff
crapped out, and go ahead shooting a GPS approach to high minimums, and
if
the weather does not let him decide early to go visual, go missed.

Yes, I figured. That would be an emergency procedure. This isn't an
emergency yet. Don't make it one.

Yes, it's likely that the 396 will do fine. But it may be "less than
fine" in a surprising way, since it hasn't been tested in ways the FAA
considers sufficient. I have issues with the FAA sometimes, but they also
have their good points.



Now here's where I don't understand the FAA's logic.

I'm building an airplane. I can put in any non-certified equipment I want to
including NAV equipment that is not new or yellowed tagged and "I" can
certify that it is up to IFR standards.

But... If I want a IFR GPS it has to be installed to the standard of the TSO
(Can't remember number).

Basicly Garmin gould build a device that derived it's information from
VOR/LOC/NDB/GS to the same standard as the 1/2/396 and I could fly IFR with
it. But because they use GPS I can't.

Jonathan Goodish wrote:

I haven't had any of these issues on the PDA, so it makes me wonder if
the Bluetooth issues are related to WindowsXP. I know that I can't get
my WindowsXP laptop to maintain a steady WiFi connection no matter what
I do... it's good for a random period of time, and then it drops and
resets. Have no such problem with WiFi on the iPaq or with my
Apple-branded laptop.

Its not XP, its the firmware in your device...

In article ,
Darrel Toepfer wrote:
I haven't had any of these issues on the PDA, so it makes me wonder if
the Bluetooth issues are related to WindowsXP. I know that I can't get
my WindowsXP laptop to maintain a steady WiFi connection no matter what
I do... it's good for a random period of time, and then it drops and
resets. Have no such problem with WiFi on the iPaq or with my
Apple-branded laptop.

Its not XP, its the firmware in your device...

Yes, I think the LInksys PC Card is the problem.


JKG