CNX80/GNS480 for sale?

by **Jay** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 8:21 pm

Scott, if you haven't already, you might want to post on the 480 users group (search on Yahoo), on Barnstormers and on AOPA's forum (more traffic there). I found mine on Barnstormers.

Good luck, they are great units.

Jay

by **Scott Myers** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 7:59 am

by **ComBE** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:50 pm

by **Kristin Winter** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 4:54 am

by **ComBE** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:08 am

by **Jay** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:28 pm

by **Kristin Winter** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:18 pm

by **Chuck Lee** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:29 am

by **Kristin Winter** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:42 am

by **Chuck Lee** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:48 am

Kristin,

With all the changes the FAA is talking about, ADS-B, (hope I got the letters right, it is late here at the office) it does not take long for an expensive unit to be a paperweight. And you know as well as anyone the unit itself is not all the expense. After equipment and labor plus down time comes the learning curve --- and then the new one shows up and we start all over.

I think at this point the Feds wants Nex-Gen or ADS-B to be on-line soon and the King 770 was showing that it was going to be ready --- if it ever shows up.

In the mean time my KLN 94 does a good job; no WAAS and no GPSS however it does give us time to see what comes down the road. For all we know it may be Garmin who again leads the way; they do make nice equipment.

Chuck Lee[/b]

by **Kristin Winter** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:39 am

Chuck,

You make a very good point about waiting until Nextgen gels a little better. For myself, I am not muchly motivated towards a WAAS box as we don't have one at my airport, and the closest alternate has an ILS. I could be tempted with a good deal on a GNS 480, outside that, I am content to wait.

It will be interesting to see what King does. Or perhaps someone else will come out of left field. The GA avionics industry is famous for upsets. Narco was at the top in the 60's, but got dethroned by King because Narco was slow off the mark to get on to solid state. Garmin in turn took over when King was slow to get with the GPS program.

If Honeywell had been smart, they would have bought Apollo before Garmin got their hands on it.

by **Patrick Arnold** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:41 am

ComBe:

We have Windows CE based devices out in the field that have run 10,000 hrs MTBF (and in this case the "F" is "fault", not "failure").

Pat Arnold (Microsoft)

by **ComBE** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:20 am

Pat,

I thank you to be honest to say that you're from Microsoft.

I hate Microsoft, not because they are big. But because they made my life miserable. Miserable because I created a software system and sold it to big organizations like Banks, Hospitals and Governments and they forced me to run on Microsoft products. I transformed it later to IBM's websphere platform and became a global supplier of IBM.

My life would have been much nicer and I would have been able to live longer had I not had the stress to deal with products from Microsoft who are not doing what they are supposed to do.

That is my personal experience, and not biased talk. I'm sorry, you guys messed it up big time, many times.

I'm avoiding and telling anyone I can to steer away from anything that's microsoft, with reason.

by **Patrick Arnold** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:12 pm

ComBE (I don't know your name/sorry):

I'm sorry you have had bad experiences w/ the company. We certainly have not been without our faults through the years. I have been at the company now for eighteen years this month and had it not been for the great strides and improvments including overall maturity we have made I probably would have left eight or so years ago. We're not perfect by any means, just better. It's the difference between kids running the company and adults.

I'm over in Belgium every now and then, perhaps we can have a beer or something and discuss (or not) all of this

And thanks for your honesty...

Pat

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