NBAA 2022: Garmin's Turboprop Avionics

There are plenty of aging turboprops in need of avionics upgrades and Garmin has a long and growing list of STC approvals for its retrofit flight displays, engine monitoring system, navigators and GFC 600 autopilot. Aviation Consumer magazine Editor in Chief and AVweb contributor Larry Anglisano caught up with Garmin's Dave Brown at the NBAA-BACE 2022 gathering in Orlando, Florida for a kiosk demo.

[johnfriend]

It would be nice, especially since he mentions the G1000 many times in this video, if they would still support the thousands upon thousands of G1000's out there. Garmin considers it a "legacy" avionics system, therefore no longer seems to care about owners or upgrades. For only about 45 thousand we can upgrade to the NXI, and get things like newer firmware and a Flightstream. Garmin is very proud of their products, too proud, and too quick to consider something obsolete. When it costs me $1, 000 a year just for database updates (without charts) you know you're dealing with a company that's overpriced.

[Lane]

Now, if someone would work on getting the price of GA flying down to within reach of more people, I'd be satisfied.

[VictoryAviation]

Touch screen… finally. And not just the smaller touch screens down below.

[skenzyme]

Kids these days. My Wright Model B gets by on the original sundial just fine.

[kohersh]

Wonder which will sell more for the KA200 once the GFC600 AP is available …. Could shrink the momentum of the NXi makeovers. Wonder what functionality would be lost? that HI275 is also such an incredible instrument

[markturner]

Is there a temperature / humidity range the touch panel need to be to work

[DanFrederiksen]

Mess of awful small poorly integrated units with cluttered 1990 level game style graphics. When it should obviously be one unit with a vastly bigger screen. And none of that awful tape legacy clutter or compass rose. How is it so hard for them to see the obvious. Grossly overpriced as well. The G600txi itself is a 27k$ unit. The GTN750 is a 19k$ unit. Massively redundant functionality between them yet why integrate them when foolish pilots sheepishly pay more when it's multiple units. And installation is s defense research project in itself so this lowtech solution might be 150k before you are done? Jesus.