This is a gross exaggeration.

I've flown behind the 430. It's not a gross exaggeration at all. Flight plan
0 disappeared. I had to respond to lawyer's prompts before the system started
up again, and I had to wait for satellite acquisition (took about fifteen
seconds, IIRC).

The VOR came back as if nothing happened.

Perhaps the glass panel's VORs and radios would come back right away too. I'm
mainly responding to the (all too pervasive) sentiment that the OP "won't shed
a tear" for the loss of steam gauges... and by implication, all the other
dinosaur stuff that this newfangled contraption replaces.

Me, I'm suspicious. Not all that is new is better. (if you don't believe me,
try running a PC g). Even now (especially on the East Coast) sometimes the
best use of a GPS under IFR is just direct to the first waypoint, because it
will change anyway.


The flight panel does have steam gauge equivalents, but these come up as
fast as real steam gauges. Plus, all the flight control instruments have
backups.


Glad to hear it.

Jose



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