While it wouldn't have to be amazing, what they'd need to do is have the ability to enter flight plans and use navigraph. Then it would be close to the F1 g1000 version.

Right, any small steps in that direction would be great!

I have a feeling Carenado's Cirrus will be like the other glass planes. Very beautiful visuals with limited system depth. A G1000 is a very sophisticated peice of avionics, so I think the time it takes to adequetly program a simulated G1000 type system would take them forever do develop. It takes F1 a long time, a lot of programming and testing to get a full featured G1000. It is kind of like any developer trying to create a realistic FMS system...it is a lot of work and time.

 

Cheers

TJ

I fly a Cessna 172 SP II with Nav III packaging as a student pilot, it has a G1000, I personally found the G1000 to be very easy to learn, as far as systems depth goes, for something basic it does quite a bit and it makes it almost impossible to get lost while on a flight if you know what you are doing with the G1000. Carenado tries to make beautiful aircraft that give a bit of complexity but still make it fun for the people that hate FMS's, its a smart sell tactic as this is where lots of the community really does stand. I am one of the few people who will work with an FMC/FMS and read some manuals, but for everyone similar to me in this respect there are at least 2 others that just want to fly.