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

**Mxsmanic** · October 3rd 06, 06:47 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting

Judah writes:

Software that is certified by a regulatory organization typically is held to
a bit of a higher standard than the desktop software pushed out by Microsoft.

Apparently the G1000 software is not certified in that way, or it
wouldn't be failing.

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**Judah** · October 5th 06, 03:05 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

Judah writes:

Software that is certified by a regulatory organization typically is
held to a bit of a higher standard than the desktop software pushed
out by Microsoft.

Apparently the G1000 software is not certified in that way, or it
wouldn't be failing.

Their press releases claim that they are FAA certified.

**Mxsmanic** · October 5th 06, 08:34 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting

Judah writes:

Their press releases claim that they are FAA certified.

Then the FAA doesn't know how to certify software (or doesn't bother
to do so), which would not surprise me at all.

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