NW_Pilot's Trans-Atlantic Flight -- All the scary details...

Recently, NW_Pilot posted:

Well, this is Usenet and I think that if it was really a garmin
rep/engineer why would they hide themselves with a hotmail account!

It will take a lot for Garmin to win my opinion and respect of them
and their products/systems if ever. Due to maybe a software flaw in
their system it could have taken my life or someone else's and
probably will take a someones in the future lets hope it's not mine.

Your experience sounds to me more like a hardware problem than software.
For example, the continuous rebooting may be caused by an intermittent
ground connection to the G1000, causing its power to switch on and off.
Given that the panel was "hacked" by the same outfit that made the poorly
kludged aux tank system (a system that clearly does have a major design
flaw) and gave you the bogus operating instructions, I am far more
suspicious of them than Garmin. The G1000 was only the most obvious
indicator of a major problem somewhere in the aircraft.

I have also been in contacted by an aviation publication about my
experience on the G1000 not sure if I want to do the interview or
not? I know I should just to expose that there maybe a potential
fatal bug/flaw in the system!

If it were me, I wouldn't do such an interview, as there is no conclusion
about the real cause of the problems you experienced. To point the finger
on the basis of pure speculation would leave you vulnerable. As can be
seen from the discussion that this has generated, inuendo can go a long
way toward creating a lasting negative impression that has no basis in
fact -- yet.

Neil