New Garmin 1000 Cessna Arrives at Sierra !!!!!

[Flight_Watch]

The long awaited Garmin 1000 equppied Cessna arrived today.

A basic 2005 Cessna 172 airframe with the Garmin 1000 setup.

-Airbags
-No auto pilot
-Mode S (TIS)
-Terrain and obstacle database


There are even more unique features to the Garmin system that are yet to be explored.

[flyguy]

Dude,

I was going to post about it but figured I'd give you a shot at first post since you usually post photos. But that's not our 172, in fact that's a 182. Where's your camera??

[Flight_Watch]

Sorry dude. You are right it is a 182 in that photo. It is the closest thing I could fine for the Garmin 1000. I will try to snap a few pics of the new plane this week.

Seemed like some of the instructors were not too excited about having to learn how to fly the new glass cockpits. But I think it is a great oppurtunity since many commerical planes down the road will be similarity equipped.

Do you have any idea when the syllabus will be ready to train students on the new setup? Are there more of the same planes coming in or just this one?

I think Sierra is one of the first few schools in the country to have a Garmin 1000 Cessna in their fleet.

[flyguy]

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Seemed like some of the instructors were not too excited about having to learn how to fly the new glass cockpits.

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And others were very excited!

I don't have a clue about the syllabus, but the instructors are going to have to get standardized before any of the students will be flying it. I think when we got the SPs it took about a week or so before the instructors all got standardized, but it will probably take a little more training this time around. I think the syllabus however is actually comming from Cessna, as that is part of the Cessna Pilot Center arrangement. Which is actually good, because otherwise there woud be miles of red tape to get it approved by the FAA for part 141 and that could take months, but the CPC syllabus is already approved.

Word is we have ordered 10 of these, so we should be getting more, and we'll have to pick them up soon because they only hold them for us for so long before they release them to other customers, and the demand for them is quite high right now. Keep in mind though that we were told that they had ordered a 737 sim and were setting up a jet transition program. Last summer we were supposed to get the this sim that we had supposedly ordered, and here we are a year later and still haven't seen it. We were also told right after the school started back up after the break that they would be replacing the entire Cessna fleet with R and S models, and a year later they only have a handfull of them and just bought a bunch of N models from Skip. Which is fine with me becaue I prefer the N models anyway. Especially for instrument training. I'd take an old plane with HSI, RMI, and DME over a new plane with a DG, no ADF, an inop auto-pilot and an expired GPS any day.

I guess what I'm saying is we'll probably be seeing a couple more, but I'd be surprised to see 10 of them on the ramp. Especially since the only thing they would be good for is instrument, and we've also supposedly ordered a bunch of Alaruses that we will be using for instrument, we have no need for 10 of them.

[Flight_Watch]

Here are some photos of the new bird: