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WAAS upgrade for your G1000?
On 30 May 2007 13:28:30 -0400, Frank Eigler
wrote: "Dan Luke" wrote: Think about the fact that the FAA is counting on GPS to allow them to do away with ground based NAV systems--it's already happening. Do you really believe that won't include some ILS's? So *that's* what you're aching to sue Garmin & Cessna for? The hypothetical decommissioning of ILS approaches by the FAA? Good luck with that. No, they'd be sued for printing "WAAS upgradable" on all their price lists since the G1000 was introduced and then not providing that upgrade. They didn't say it was going to be free, just that there was going to be an upgrade path. And since the same comdat antenni and GIA form-factor boxen are used in the pre-and-post WAAS aircraft, the inability to ship out a new comdat and GIA box and have WAAS in the older aiframes is suspect. It should be a 2 hour job to smack the new antenni and boxes in and do a flight test. That was the whole point of the G1000 system, modular functions. Replace the box, instant upgrade. |
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WAAS upgrade for your G1000?
This illustrates the downside of a fully integrated solution. You are
at the whim of the original manufacturer for upgrades. It is virtually impossible to add other boxes. I'm touched slightly by this... I use a comdat antenna with my 430. It's a great solution, requiring few holes in the roof. But there is no comdat waas approved version yet :- ( ...probably due to the G-1000 situation. Bill Hale Loveland CO On May 30, 4:54 pm, Peter Clark wrote: On 30 May 2007 13:28:30 -0400, Frank Eigler wrote: "Dan Luke" wrote: Think about the fact that the FAA is counting on GPS to allow them to do away with ground based NAV systems--it's already happening. Do you really believe that won't include some ILS's? So *that's* what you're aching to sue Garmin & Cessna for? The hypothetical decommissioning of ILS approaches by the FAA? Good luck with that. No, they'd be sued for printing "WAAS upgradable" on all their price lists since the G1000 was introduced and then not providing that upgrade. They didn't say it was going to be free, just that there was going to be an upgrade path. And since the same comdat antenni and GIA form-factor boxen are used in the pre-and-post WAAS aircraft, the inability to ship out a new comdat and GIA box and have WAAS in the older aiframes is suspect. It should be a 2 hour job to smack the new antenni and boxes in and do a flight test. That was the whole point of the G1000 system, modular functions. Replace the box, instant upgrade. |
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WAAS upgrade for your G1000?
Unless I missed something there must be a comdat tri-antenna (COM,
GPS, GDL69A) WAAS approved version since the 2007 Cessna range with WAAS GIAs installed are using them. It's possible I'm wrong, but I don't recall seeing a puck or two on the roof like the old KLN94 installs had. Either that or the way they added the WAAS hardware to the new GIA alleviated the need for the updated antenna somehow. I'll have to look at the parts manual tomorrow and see if they changed the antennas. On 30 May 2007 16:44:59 -0700, " wrote: This illustrates the downside of a fully integrated solution. You are at the whim of the original manufacturer for upgrades. It is virtually impossible to add other boxes. I'm touched slightly by this... I use a comdat antenna with my 430. It's a great solution, requiring few holes in the roof. But there is no comdat waas approved version yet :- ( ...probably due to the G-1000 situation. Bill Hale Loveland CO On May 30, 4:54 pm, Peter Clark wrote: On 30 May 2007 13:28:30 -0400, Frank Eigler wrote: "Dan Luke" wrote: Think about the fact that the FAA is counting on GPS to allow them to do away with ground based NAV systems--it's already happening. Do you really believe that won't include some ILS's? So *that's* what you're aching to sue Garmin & Cessna for? The hypothetical decommissioning of ILS approaches by the FAA? Good luck with that. No, they'd be sued for printing "WAAS upgradable" on all their price lists since the G1000 was introduced and then not providing that upgrade. They didn't say it was going to be free, just that there was going to be an upgrade path. And since the same comdat antenni and GIA form-factor boxen are used in the pre-and-post WAAS aircraft, the inability to ship out a new comdat and GIA box and have WAAS in the older aiframes is suspect. It should be a 2 hour job to smack the new antenni and boxes in and do a flight test. That was the whole point of the G1000 system, modular functions. Replace the box, instant upgrade. |
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WAAS upgrade for your G1000?
Has there been any update on G1000 WAAS upgrades for Pre-2007 G1000
customers? Last post on this thread seemes to have been 5/31/07, now 3 months later. |
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WAAS upgrade for your G1000?
"Ahmed_Reza" wrote: Has there been any update on G1000 WAAS upgrades for Pre-2007 G1000 customers? Last post on this thread seemes to have been 5/31/07, now 3 months later. I haven't heard anything new. -- Dan T-182T at BFM |
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