On Jul 20, 5:56 am, "Dan Luke" wrote:
"Robert M. Gary" wrote:
o The 496 can . The G1000 cannot.
I'm sure some of the limitations of the G1000 are a result of it being
certified.

No doubt. Hard to see how that prevented the animated NEXRAD feature from
being implemented, though; that really gripes me.

Could be a processor/memory resources issue, I suppose.

Its hard to tell and Garmin would never give you an honest response.
When I asked them why the G1000 doesn't have airways (shouldn't a
glass cockpit aircraft be set up to fly IFR w/o enroute charts?), they
responded that it would take an "enormous" amount of memory to store
all the airways in the U.S. I guess its lucky that it doesn't take
memory to know the terrain at every point on the earth!

-Robert