REFLECTOR: Garmin WAAS Upgrade

Scott Derrick scott at tnstaafl.net
Wed Sep 5 11:09:38 CDT 2007


Garmin seems to be suffering from a serious quality control problem of 
late..

Scott

Rene Dugas wrote:
> /Dear Folks,/
> 
> /I recently completed my adventure flying around the //US//.  Just 
> before I left I upgraded my two Garmin 430’s to the WAAS with Terrain.  
> The first one came back with the right knob broken and the comms don’t 
> work.  Mailed it back off.  The second one was over a week late and too 
> late to take on my trip, sooooo.   I borrowed two friends WAAS 430’s for 
> my trip. Two more days in the avionics shop with data card miss matches 
> and corruption problems then the number two radio would receive but not 
> transmit voice.  I finally took off for //Billings// //Montana// and 
> both Garmins went into a Loading ….. mode and would not recover.  I 
> returned to the avionic shop.  Five hours later and three data updates 
> nothing was better.  WE reconfigured the units to work completely 
> separately and pulled the circuit breaker on the Storm scope and each 
> worked perfectly.   I stopped at Aerotronics in //Billings// //Montana// 
> were my panel was assembled and two hours later the answer was 
> discovered.  Garmin whom we had talked to no //les//s that five times in 
> the last 36 hours informed us that the upgrade will not work with an 
> installed WX 500 Stormscope.   It has worked well for four years but 
> GArmin has no idea when they will get the data problem fixed for my 
> panel.  Just in case someone has had a similar problem without resolution./
> 
> /Rene’  /
> 
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