Kaye
Line Up and Wait
....I love the G500.
The Trinnie got back last week from an upgrade to a G500 supported with a G430W. Today I took it up for my first flight, and it's pretty cool!
I'm not Garmin savvy as most of my experience is with some form of King Bendix. I've played with the g1000 at our school occasionally, but didn't spend enough time to get comfortable with it. So I wasn't really excited that the Trinnie was getting an upgrade....I always said I like my steam guages!
At WV62, Tim told me I was gonna love the g500.....and he's right!
I was nervous about today's flight as I remembered my difficulty with the g1000. But the experience with the g1000 was my friend. Even tho the g500 is a "mini-me", it's much simpler. And my g1000 experience made the overall transition a piece of cake. And WOW, look at all the new capabilites I've got!
Since it's a retrofit, it's integrated with a lot of the original equipment, so my CFI and I put it thru it's paces to see how everything works together along with any idocsyncracies. And I just had a hoot flying!!! I know I've forgotten half the tidbits I learned today, but now working with the downloaded sim at home, I can make better use of it.
Today was just fun, tho we did try out a GPS WAAS approach with a procedure turn, and was that ever cool.
Next lesson....getting down and serious with the instrument work. But first, another fun flight for me tomorrow!
The Trinnie got back last week from an upgrade to a G500 supported with a G430W. Today I took it up for my first flight, and it's pretty cool!
I'm not Garmin savvy as most of my experience is with some form of King Bendix. I've played with the g1000 at our school occasionally, but didn't spend enough time to get comfortable with it. So I wasn't really excited that the Trinnie was getting an upgrade....I always said I like my steam guages!
At WV62, Tim told me I was gonna love the g500.....and he's right!
I was nervous about today's flight as I remembered my difficulty with the g1000. But the experience with the g1000 was my friend. Even tho the g500 is a "mini-me", it's much simpler. And my g1000 experience made the overall transition a piece of cake. And WOW, look at all the new capabilites I've got!
Since it's a retrofit, it's integrated with a lot of the original equipment, so my CFI and I put it thru it's paces to see how everything works together along with any idocsyncracies. And I just had a hoot flying!!! I know I've forgotten half the tidbits I learned today, but now working with the downloaded sim at home, I can make better use of it.
Today was just fun, tho we did try out a GPS WAAS approach with a procedure turn, and was that ever cool.
Next lesson....getting down and serious with the instrument work. But first, another fun flight for me tomorrow!![G500%20Panel-1[2].jpg](/community/data/attachments/15/15760-4bc457cea45a93e195e1cb282698d97f.jpg)
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