So I climbed into the cockpit of the 350 for the first time today for some study time and came away confused.  What is the avionics set?  Does not appear to be a G3000 or a G1000 set.  I see that it is a touch screen. Learned my way around, somewhat.  One aspect I grew frustrated with is that COM on both the PFD and MFD is COM1.  I can find the way to tune COM2 via the flight plan menu, and  Can turn on COM2 with it's button. However I am unable to find how to make COM2 the COM that appears on the either PFD or MFD.  And I can find no way to listen only to COM2.  The COM1 cannot be extinguished.  

Am I missing something?

Also noted the keyboard on the console is mostly inop.

It is the Asobo modified version of the G3000 for KingAir 350i. Beechcraft says it should be the Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion integrated avionics system.

 

There is a nice 30 page Spec & Desc doc on the King Air 350i out there in cyberspace dated Oct 2015. This has a good overview of what is flying in the friendly skies, not necessarily what we have to fly.

Negative flying pig - it's the abbreviated version of the Garmin 3iX and many King Air's were equipped - and in fact it has become the choice over the ProLine21 (because it's better) - but it's a complicated piece of kit but very good, and different to the G3000 - when it works as designed. ProLine has gone Biz Jet.

Unfortunately, in MSFS it utilises code from the G3000 so it doesn't have the Mods that the TBM pilots have enjoyed - because they don't translate across for that system very well - and it's rather bugg*red by the brilliant G1000 Mods by Kaosfere.

Us King Air pilots are left in a bit of a black hole in terms of Glass Cockpit improvements. We're working on it though!

Personally, my favourite Default is the King Air - so I'm working on getting "the Glass" correct and as it should be;

 

 

Edited October 7, 20205 yr by Will Fly For Cheese

I said it was a modified version of the G3000, I guess I should have said of the ASOBO G3000 to be more accurate.  Sorry.  Looking forward to any improvement you guys come up with.

Ray

I now what you mean. It's a headache.

If you look at the airframes that use the G1000 - they all use it in the same way. Apply a fix to one; you apply it to all the other in exactly the same way. NET Result; If you don't break one - you don't break the others. The current Kaosfere G1000 V3.1 is excellent.

Then the G3000 (TBM, etc) - pretty much the same - but with minor differences that start to surface when you go code-side.

Then, you have the King Air - a true Hybrid - between the 3000 and the GiX - (which really are two quite different systems!) and (also, draws Data from the G1000 and G3000 code) the result is. . . it's a mess.

 

Edited October 7, 20205 yr by Will Fly For Cheese

9 minutes ago, Will Fly For Cheese said:

Then, you have the King Air - a true Hybrid - between the 3000 and the GiX - (which really are two quite different systems!) and (also, draws Data from the G1000 and G3000 code) the result is. . . it's a mess.

 

That's the type of thing that can cause you to lose hair.

Looking forward to see what you can come up with. I also like the King Air but this avionics set makes it extremely frustrating to fly.

2 minutes ago, raymar said:

It is the Asobo abbreviated version of the G3000 for KingAir 350i.

OK. Thanks. 

 

10 minutes ago, Will Fly For Cheese said:

Then, you have the King Air - a true Hybrid - between the 3000 and the GiX - (which really are two quite different systems!) and (also, draws Data from the G1000 and G3000 code) the result is. . . it's a mess.

So I have spent most of my time in the DA62, 172, and G36.  Just studying the KA 359.  Which props or turbo props other than the TBM use the G3000.  And one question I had which I have not seen answered is the mods.  Install one or the other?  Or both?  If one or the other, does the TBM based mod provide anything in the other G3000 aircraft?