Backup gyros - which do you trust?

I played with that page on the 196 yesterday in moderately gusty
conditions... You have to be smooth on the controls, make your correction
and then wait for the unit to update... Flown that way it is useable and I
suspect that I could fly an approach with it in real conditions (an ILS to
minimums would be hairy).. The work load is significantly higher than with
the gyros..

But, if you do not wait for the screen to update you get into a world of
hurt... Since it was nice and bumpy I put the hood on and then flew it like
I was panicky - rapid, big,. inputs - It only took about 30 seconds to get
out of sync, with the ship laid over on it's side, whereupon I had the fun
of recovering from an unusual attitude... Other than the speed having
gotten further into the yellow arc than I like it was good exercise... About
this time the controller came on and asked me to say intentions - uh, oh,
busted!

Denny

"Roger Tracy" wrote in message
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I have a Garmin 196. It has a simulated instrument
panel page on it that is pretty accurate. It would be
the tie breaker in the event of confusion over what
the gyro instruments were saying.