Annual subscription for weather and voice services is US $1200
That's quite steep. Is the MLX770 the same?
Put a Jepp sub for Europe on top of that...
Blimey IO540, you've had to put up with a lot from your AP
Not at all just me. Practically every KFC225 system installed in any aircraft has had failures. In some cases 10 or more failures in 10 years. Usually the servos burn out due to that design defect.
Honeywell just keep telling each individual owner they are not aware of a problem. Of course they won't say that to me because they know they can't (well they said exactly that to me at Friedrichshafen, but they said they are aware of problems only on my specific aircraft type
- a classic corporate bull procedure).
There is a huge level of arrogance among avionics manufacturers, which I find particularly distasteful. And they get away with it because anybody who washes his dirty washing on the internet gets cut off from manufacturer and dealer support (as I well know) so most people keep their mouths shut. They also do that in case they want to sell their plane, of course