Victor Airways in Cessna G1000 T182T

Maybe, if Garmin and Cessna get enough complaints or loss
enough sales, they will add the feature in a software
revision. It would be nice.



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"Sam Spade" wrote in message
news:Sfd5g.174961$bm6.121638@fed1read04...
| Jim Macklin wrote:
| It does have all the intersections, so you can program
| routes on the airways.
|
|
| As does my Garmin handheld.
|
| A robust IFR platform should have airways that load as
easily as
| entering them in an FAA flight plan.

Roy Smith wrote:


Amen. It seems utterly braindead not to have that ability. The cost is
minimal in terms of either CPU time or storage space, and the convenience
is huge. I absolutely cannot understand why the G1000 does not support
that.

My guess is that it was an emotional decision on the part of the
gentleman who runs the part of Garmin that makes the IFR panel mounts.
He got kicked a lot in the shins about the lack of airway databases in
the 400500 series. Apparently, they could not add that feature to the
400/500 series (prior to the someday-big-upgrade) because of lack of
platform capability.

So, perhaps he felt it would make the 400/500 product line look worse to
have designed the G1000 with an airway database.

Sam Spade wrote:
Roy Smith wrote:


Amen. It seems utterly braindead not to have that ability. The cost
is minimal in terms of either CPU time or storage space, and the
convenience is huge. I absolutely cannot understand why the G1000
does not support that.


My guess is that it was an emotional decision on the part of the
gentleman who runs the part of Garmin that makes the IFR panel mounts.
He got kicked a lot in the shins about the lack of airway databases in
the 400500 series. Apparently, they could not add that feature to the
400/500 series (prior to the someday-big-upgrade) because of lack of
platform capability.

So, perhaps he felt it would make the 400/500 product line look worse to
have designed the G1000 with an airway database.

Since noone else has mentioned it: The Garmin GNS480 understands airways... and
it *does* make the 400/500 product line look worse, in a lot of ways.

DGB

yes it does. more button pushing, but much much more capable.

Dave Butler wrote:

Sam Spade wrote:

Since noone else has mentioned it: The Garmin GNS480 understands
airways... and it *does* make the 400/500 product line look worse, in a
lot of ways.

DGB

True, but the Garmin IFR folks inherited that box, they didn't design it.

Sam Spade wrote:

Dave Butler wrote:

Sam Spade wrote:

Since noone else has mentioned it: The Garmin GNS480 understands
airways... and it *does* make the 400/500 product line look worse, in a
lot of ways.

DGB

True, but the Garmin IFR folks inherited that box, they didn't design it.

Inherited = purchased the competition.

--
Peter

In article 1146490571.46317@sj-nntpcache-5, Dave Butler wrote:
Since noone else has mentioned it: The Garmin GNS480 understands airways...
and it *does* make the 400/500 product line look worse, in a lot of ways.

Heh. That's because the GNS480 wasn't designed by Garmin. It was originally
a product of UPSAT (aka Apollo, II-Morrow) before they were bought out by
Garmin, and was called the Apollo CNX-80.

-- Dane

"Roy Smith" wrote in message
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In article ,

Amen. It seems utterly braindead not to have that ability. The cost is
minimal in terms of either CPU time or storage space, and the convenience
is huge. I absolutely cannot understand why the G1000 does not support
that.

I can understand why they don't support Victor airways in the G1000. The
G1000 uses Garmin 430's (as black boxes, without the display or buttons) as
its GPS navigators. If the Garmin 430 can't do it, the G1000 can't do it.

It was a sound engineering decision, but I agree it sure would be nice to
have the capability.

-Mike