The G1000 glass-cockpit popularity continue to increase, and learning to use it is definetly an asset. As already mentioned earlier on this blog, some Cessna Citation will be G1000 equipped… A new step has been reached as Socata anounced a G1000 version of the TBM 850 !

It is now possible to envisage a complete career flying only G1000, as it is available in all kind of airplanes:

• Basic single engine piston (SEP): C172, DA40
• Complex single engine piston (SEP): Bonanza, PA32, DA50 (to come)
• High Performance Aircraft (HPA): PA34 Malibu
• Multi engine piston (MEP): Baron, DA42
• Single turbine engine (SET): TBM 850
• Multi engine turbine (MET): Kingair 200
• Jet: Cessna Citation Mustang

This means that a pilot could move up from C172 to Citation Mustang without having to re-learn avionics at each step ! This is the miracle of modern avionics, and it will certainly reduce the number of incidents caused by pilots being distracted because they don’t know their equipment perfectly.

The question then is to know when Boeing or Airbus will integrate them … as a de-facto standard !