Columbia Aircraft- New Garmin Model
I finally got a chance to check out the new Garmin G1000 equipped Columbia models. Galvin, our
local Columbia dealers have one as a demo airplane and it was sitting on the maintenance ramp. Its
still marked experimental so obviously the issues with getting everything rolling again are still ongoing.
I got a chance to sit inside and overall it felt pretty nice. Despite the screens being horizontal the
panel felt pretty high and hard to see over- maybe the horizontal aspect increased the effect of it looking high.
Overall the key difference is a greater feeling of space since there is more room over your legs and the panel
in between the front seats doesnt go all the way forward.
Im still getting the engine stuff taken care of and am also dealing with the GNS430 terrain upgrade,
etc. Ill report back shortly.
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