On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:37:08 GMT, "Neil Gould"
wrote in
:

Recently, Larry Dighera posted:

http://world.honda.com/HondaJet/Styling/FlightDeck/
[...]
It will be interesting to see how this one is FAA-certified. Power failure
would be a worst-case scenario, so I'd be surprised if this plane lacked
multiple power sources, but a lightning hit could be a problem.


If the glass cockpit is engineered anything like the Garmin system
installed in the Cessna 172S, that went into an infinite re-boot loop
while en route from Greenland to Iceland causing the loss of all
communications, navigation, flight instruments, fuel gages, autopilot
etc., it would only take a malfunction affecting the main CPU to
create a serious hazard.