http://www.garmin-250.com/blog/2009/12/is-the-garmin-g1000-just-a-marketing-ruse-to-allow-cessna-to-charge-225000-for-a-75000-aircraft/ Question and Answers about Garmin GPS Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:43:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.garmin-250.com/blog/2009/12/is-the-garmin-g1000-just-a-marketing-ruse-to-allow-cessna-to-charge-225000-for-a-75000-aircraft/comment-page-1/#comment-938 thresher Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:45:42 +0000 http://www.garmin-250.com/blog/2009/12/is-the-garmin-g1000-just-a-marketing-ruse-to-allow-cessna-to-charge-225000-for-a-75000-aircraft/#comment-938 This is whats hurting the fun of flying and the industry ,these expensive planes.This is what keeps me from flying.Cost. This is whats hurting the fun of flying and the industry ,these expensive planes.This is what keeps me from flying.Cost.

]]> http://www.garmin-250.com/blog/2009/12/is-the-garmin-g1000-just-a-marketing-ruse-to-allow-cessna-to-charge-225000-for-a-75000-aircraft/comment-page-1/#comment-937 rhsaunde Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:53:50 +0000 http://www.garmin-250.com/blog/2009/12/is-the-garmin-g1000-just-a-marketing-ruse-to-allow-cessna-to-charge-225000-for-a-75000-aircraft/#comment-937 Hardly. The Garmin probably replaces $15,000 worth of individual radios (at last count, my 172 had nine). Unfortunately, flying has gotten absurdly expensive; when I started, 172 time was $12 an hour -- wet. Hardly. The Garmin probably replaces $15,000 worth of individual radios (at last count, my 172 had nine). Unfortunately, flying has gotten absurdly expensive; when I started, 172 time was $12 an hour — wet.

]]> http://www.garmin-250.com/blog/2009/12/is-the-garmin-g1000-just-a-marketing-ruse-to-allow-cessna-to-charge-225000-for-a-75000-aircraft/comment-page-1/#comment-936 Wordpress for Internet Marketing Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:34:14 +0000 http://www.garmin-250.com/blog/2009/12/is-the-garmin-g1000-just-a-marketing-ruse-to-allow-cessna-to-charge-225000-for-a-75000-aircraft/#comment-936 Not at all. It doesn't account for any more than about $40,000 of that price. It's a heck of a lot better than the steam gauges it replaces. Not at all. It doesn’t account for any more than about $40,000 of that price. It’s a heck of a lot better than the steam gauges it replaces.

]]> http://www.garmin-250.com/blog/2009/12/is-the-garmin-g1000-just-a-marketing-ruse-to-allow-cessna-to-charge-225000-for-a-75000-aircraft/comment-page-1/#comment-935 The Engineer Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:00:45 +0000 http://www.garmin-250.com/blog/2009/12/is-the-garmin-g1000-just-a-marketing-ruse-to-allow-cessna-to-charge-225000-for-a-75000-aircraft/#comment-935 The price of having fun just keeps going up. Price a cirrus. The new aircraft have a whole new electrical system and yo have to pay for it. Try buying a older model and bring it up to new specs you will save but it ain't cheep aproved repair stations will be glad to give you quote. remember you only get what you pay for. the bargain will haunt you The price of having fun just keeps going up.
Price a cirrus.
The new aircraft have a whole new electrical system and yo have to pay for it.
Try buying a older model and bring it up to new specs you will save but it ain’t cheep
aproved repair stations will be glad to give you quote. remember you only get what you pay for. the bargain will haunt you

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