This is for those of you training in a plane with a Garmin system OTHER THAN the new GTN-650/750 series.
The 72hr to PP thread got me thinking, the biggest change in aviation between the time I trained where the average would have been very close to 40, was the introduction of the Garmin GNS series radios, whigh I consider a construct sent straight from hell. Not because the 'magenta line' issue, but because it has the most idiotically maddening interface of operational time critical navigation equipment I have ever come across; 'spin push spin spin spin spin push spin spin push push DAMNIT!....'
Now I look at the numbers and I look at the fact that it was 30-40hrs learning for just the stupid GNS radio interface to go beyond just setting frequencies manually.
So what I'm wondering is how the instructors are going about introducing and using the advanced functions, and if you are studying the unit and all the functions outside the plane, and what learning resources you are using if you are, (videos, interactive CD or website, simulators...). Also if you have comments on how that's working out for you, that's really what I'm after.
The 72hr to PP thread got me thinking, the biggest change in aviation between the time I trained where the average would have been very close to 40, was the introduction of the Garmin GNS series radios, whigh I consider a construct sent straight from hell. Not because the 'magenta line' issue, but because it has the most idiotically maddening interface of operational time critical navigation equipment I have ever come across; 'spin push spin spin spin spin push spin spin push push DAMNIT!....'
Now I look at the numbers and I look at the fact that it was 30-40hrs learning for just the stupid GNS radio interface to go beyond just setting frequencies manually.
So what I'm wondering is how the instructors are going about introducing and using the advanced functions, and if you are studying the unit and all the functions outside the plane, and what learning resources you are using if you are, (videos, interactive CD or website, simulators...). Also if you have comments on how that's working out for you, that's really what I'm after.