Some insights into the G1000

Robert M. Gary writes:

I feel *WAY* safer in the G1000 system than the steam gauges. Look at
how often an attitude indicator goes out in the steam gauges. I for
one would not welcome having to shoot an actual ILS on the TC.
Everyone has heard the 1 or 2 stores of hard failures in the G1000 but
most of us have personally had hard failures of an attitude indicator,
a TC, an airspeed indicator, etc.

After decades of dealing with computers professionally, I get
extremely nervous thinking about any system that allows a computer to
deal with safety-of-life issues.

Properly programmed computers are safer than human beings in such
applications. The problem is that they are almost never properly
programmed. Many of the people developing such systems have
absolutely no clue of the important considerations that must be kept
in mind when designing them. To them, everything is just a Windows
PC.

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