TangoWhiskey
Touchdown! Greaser!
Just thought of something funny about the G1000 (and I'm not ragging on the system--I like it!). Fuel gauges are required equipment, right?
But if you press Engine - System on the MFD to get to the detailed numbers, the fuel gauges go away. The system will stay on this page indefinitely if you don't cancel out and return to the main page.
Therefore, you could theoretically fly for hours on end without seeing any gauges in the aircraft. In a way, I'm surprised the FAA allowed that to be certified. A timeout (60 seconds?) on the Engine/System page to return to the primary MFD screen if no key was pressed would solve that.
At least you'd get a low fuel alert on the PFD before you ran out of gas.
But if you press Engine - System on the MFD to get to the detailed numbers, the fuel gauges go away. The system will stay on this page indefinitely if you don't cancel out and return to the main page.
Therefore, you could theoretically fly for hours on end without seeing any gauges in the aircraft. In a way, I'm surprised the FAA allowed that to be certified. A timeout (60 seconds?) on the Engine/System page to return to the primary MFD screen if no key was pressed would solve that.
At least you'd get a low fuel alert on the PFD before you ran out of gas.