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IO540 · 19th September 2008, 22:00

30-60 mins is doable if you are happy to jump into a plane where you don't know what half the knobs do.

Suprisingly many pilots do exactly that. I find this totally bizzare because I would not dream of flying something unless I fully understood the systems on board.

I have briefly flown G1000 planes and (this is coming from a fully airways equipped TB20 with what was state of the art late-1990s IFR avionics, and 800hrs on it, plus a CPL/IR, plus a degree in engineering so not completely dumb) I reckon it is a 1-2 day ground school to understand the main parts of it, up to loading a route into it.

If you know the Garmin 430/530 way of working, that will make it quite a bit easier.

But going from a basic spamcan sort of thing - definitely a lot of training but I would say the same for any IFR GPS type of kit.

But if you want to cover GPS approaches and the details of stuff like waypoint sequencing (not that this is relevant in Europe, currently) that will be a few more days - if you can find an instructor who knows it.

19th September 2008, 22:00	#17 (permalink)
IO540 A Personal Title Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: England Posts: 9,061	30-60 mins is doable if you are happy to jump into a plane where you don't know what half the knobs do. Suprisingly many pilots do exactly that. I find this totally bizzare because I would not dream of flying something unless I fully understood the systems on board. I have briefly flown G1000 planes and (this is coming from a fully airways equipped TB20 with what was state of the art late-1990s IFR avionics, and 800hrs on it, plus a CPL/IR, plus a degree in engineering so not completely dumb) I reckon it is a 1-2 day ground school to understand the main parts of it, up to loading a route into it. If you know the Garmin 430/530 way of working, that will make it quite a bit easier. But going from a basic spamcan sort of thing - definitely a lot of training but I would say the same for any IFR GPS type of kit. But if you want to cover GPS approaches and the details of stuff like waypoint sequencing (not that this is relevant in Europe, currently) that will be a few more days - if you can find an instructor who knows it.