Found a better way to trace intermittent faults on the G1000

I used to just swap parts until the problem went away, which took forever on a King Air 350 last year. Now I set up the Garmin GTS 800 traffic system to log data for a full flight cycle before I touch anything. It showed a single bad packet from the right transponder that I would have missed. Anyone else use the built-in logs more than the test set these days?

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riverm484d ago

That G1000 log trick saved me a whole day on a 172 last month. I mean, the data's already there, right?

alexthompson29d ago

Smart move. I've started pulling those logs for any squawk now, saves so much time chasing ghosts.

murray.rowan29d ago

Yeah, it's like we're getting paid to read bedtime stories to the servers now.