Teacherjh wrote:

This is a gross exaggeration.

I've flown behind the 430. It's not a gross exaggeration at all. Flight
plan
0 disappeared.

I fly behind 430s now. Flight plan 0 does not disappear. Perhaps you're
running an older version of the software?

I had to respond to lawyer's prompts before the system
started up again,

Well, this is true.

and I had to wait for satellite acquisition (took about
fifteen seconds, IIRC).

More or less. So? That would happen if the panel was glass or not.


The VOR came back as if nothing happened.

I've never noticed at what point in the GPS startup the VOR receiver in the
430 starts working. I'll have to check that next time. I'd expect
"instantly", but I don't know this.

[...]

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.

Why cannot ATC "send" flight plans as part of a mode S upload? *That* would
be incredibly useful (at least for those of us around here).

- Andrew