I was signed off in a G1000 Diamond Star after 1.2 hours. I had just
recently been checked out in a 530/430 Diamond Star, so I was somewhat
familiar with working those GPS's. The FBO didn't say, "no IFR", but I'd be
hard pressed to take it into any serious stuff.

They're alot of fun to fly behind, though.

"Greg Esres" wrote in message
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It took me around 5 hours to get the system down for IFR
(partial panel, approaches, futzing around with flight plans, etc), so
IMO (and from what our instructors say) about 6-7 hours is the average
to get used to the system and flying approaches with it. Obviously,
YMMV.

Would already being familiar with 430/530 operations reduce that any,
do you think?