G1000 vs Steam guages initial thoughts...

Sorry, G58 typo.
"Jim Macklin" wrote
in message news:Jo_Jg.6567$SZ3.5312@dukeread04...
|I want to fly a G36 and G59 Beech. No corner or cost
limits.
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| "Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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|| Sam Spade wrote:
|| The G-1000 probably works best when you either use it
| exclusively or
|| have a lot of total time and experience in going back
| and forth.
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|| Amen! The procedural training required for the G1000 is
| much more
|| complex than for round dials. If you don't fly it
| regularly its very
|| easy to accidentally miss a step or do things in the
wrong
| order.
|| Especially when setting up an approach or programming the
| autopilot.
|| Can't tell you home many times students have set the VS
in
| the
|| autopilot and set the target altitude and forgotten to
arm
| the altitude
|| and flown right through it.
|| Unfortunately the Cessna implementation of the G1000 and
| the KAP 150
|| does not integrate altitude so the altitude you set in
the
| G1000 is not
|| used by the autopilot. Mooney did a better job with the
| G1000 driving
|| the autopilot target altitude so your bug and the
| autopilot are in
|| agreement.
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|| -Robert, G1000 CFII
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