Garmin G1000

[pilotman2105]

I may have an opportunity to instruct in a new C182 with a Garmin G1000 system installed. I have some basic familiarity with GPS systems (KLN 89, 94, Garmin 430, etc.), but the G1000 is another type of beast.

Any one has experience with one of these? Any place that I can get operational information about it, other than the POH and supplements? How about simulating instrument failures and such?

[Finn]

I know the Garmin websight had manuals for GPS's available for free download on their websight. I think they are in PDF format. I had to download the one for my 195 a few years ago but I don't know if they still do this. Good luck

[jerryp]

I checked the Garmin web site and there's no simulator for the G1000. Not surprising; it would be quite the program!!

I guess it's "welcome to the club" as far as trying to figure it all out. There have been a number of articles in the flying mags recently on just this subject - how to teach on glass when all you've flown is steam gauge panels.

And it's not like trying to figure out a new GPS unit, where you can get someone else to fly while you twiddle the knobs.

I know that Cirrus has a school you can go to, but they use the Avidyne glass. Maybe Piper or Cessna will follow suit.

[pilotman2105]

Originally posted by jerryp
I guess it's "welcome to the club" as far as trying to figure it all out. There have been a number of articles in the flying mags recently on just this subject - how to teach on glass when all you've flown is steam gauge panels.

Any idea what mags those were in? I subscribe to a few, but don't remember seeing anything like that come along.

[jerryp]

I think it was Flying within the past couple of issues. Richard Collins I believe.

[CitationXPVD]

I havent been able to find much on the net on the G1000. The DA-40 my flight school flies came with a nice manual. The 182 you might fly must have something similar.

BTW:
GPS approaches are a little more simple to setup in the G1000 than they are in the KLN89 series.

[HIGHwing]

Flight school I attend instructs in the DA-40 G1000's. They sent a core group of instructors to London, Ontario to learn the G1000 with the factory training. The flight school has since prepared coursework around the panel and offer an 8 hour ground school and five hour flight training as part of the checkout requirement. The G1000 is not significantly different than the GNS 530 from what I've seen so far, but I haven't finished the checkout either. The biggest difference is everything is soft buttons. Oh and for IFR it's a pain, you can only show the NAV1 or NAV2 radio in the HSI representation at once, so if you're trying to identify an intersection, you must flip back and forth between the two, not a big deal, but you'd think there'd be a way to show both needles at the same time. I'm told (although I don't know for sure because I use checklists) you must go through the startup sequence perfectly or it sets an error and you must start over.

[Jedi Nein]

Greetings,
I just released a major update to my book on the G1000. The book is a checklist for using the G1000 as a system. I cover the GPS use from direct through approaches, engine functions including how to lean and make TBO, traffic and weather functions plus considerations for the use of those features, and what to do when stuff fails. The book is at my website.

Garmin's guide on how to fail stuff is at the FAA's website.

Hope they help.

Fly SAFE!
Jedi Nein

[jfitzpat]

To confirm an earlier post, the latest Flying has a long Collins article about the G1000 in a Skylane.

No 'generic' manual appears to be yet available. My experience is pretty limited, but my general impression is favorable. It took me awhile to get used to TC info spread out, and I have to keep reminding myself to periodically check engine, compass, and the backup instruments in my scan (since everything normally needed is right in front of your face), but I could easily get spoiled...

-jjf