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Garmin backing away from additional GDL-69 features for 430/530 products?



 
 
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Old September 9th 05, 09:49 PM
Andrew Gideon
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Default Garmin backing away from additional GDL-69 features for 430/530 products?

Take a look please at the bottom of:

http://www.aviationsafety.com/gdl_69_comparison.htm

According to this, the WAAS upgrade for the 430/530 will no longer include
as a side effect access to the "additional" features of the GD-69.

My understanding, from speaking with a Garmin rep months ago, was that the
430/530 products need to have a hardware upgrade so as to exploit features
of the GDL-69 that were not available in the GDL-49. You can see what
these features are at:

http://www.garmin.com/products/gdl69/

The list of features available for 430/530 users is much shorter than that
list for MX20 and G1000 users.

[And no mention of the 480, which I find interesting.]

Does anyone know of Garmin backing away from the WAAS upgrade also adding
the ability to better use the GDL-69?

- Andrew

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Old September 9th 05, 10:51 PM
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In article ne.com,
Andrew Gideon wrote:

Does anyone know of Garmin backing away from the WAAS upgrade also adding
the ability to better use the GDL-69?



Don't know about the WAAS upgrade, but I think it was this month's AOPA
Pilot where the author quoted a Garmin employee as saying that the
processor in the 430/530 was "maxed out" with the current weather
products (NEXRAD/METAR/TAF) and that no more weather capability would be
added to the 430/530 platform.



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Old September 9th 05, 11:36 PM
Andrew Gideon
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Jonathan Goodish wrote:

Don't know about the WAAS upgrade, but I think it was this month's AOPA
Pilot where the author quoted a Garmin employee as saying that the
processor in the 430/530 was "maxed out" with the current weather
products (NEXRAD/METAR/TAF) and that no more weather capability would be
added to the 430/530 platform.


I saw something like that, I think, but I took it to mean that this is why
any more functionality is pending the WAAS upgrade. That upgrade involves
putting into place more capable hardware (CPU, memory, dunno).

- Andrew

 




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