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Just been introduced to a G1000 172 and frankly I don't see the point.
For instrument flying it's worse than a conventional fit, because you don't have three separate needles, and indeed don't have two CDI needles at all (which I find helpful when tracking one VOR radial and picking up another one), and the particular aircraft I was looking at didn't have a DME so couldn't be used for approaches at the local airfield.
For visual ... it's completely unnecessary, you're looking out the window anyway.
So the only reason I can think of for buying a 172 with G1000 is that it's cheaper than a conventional fit (provided you don't want to use it in IMC) ... is this indeed the case?
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