Upload Databse to G1000 Nxi From Forelight
At present that I've had my new aeroplane for a week, I idea it might be advisable to share a comparison of the new G1000 NXi console with the "legacy" G1000 I had in my DA42 and DA40. Since the original G1000 was introduced in 2004, it shouldn't be too surprising that Garmin was able to significantly upgrade the hardware 13 years subsequently with much faster processors and far more memory. The previous G1000 hardware maxed out at GDU Version 15 software, while the new G1000 NXi included with DA62/42/40 aircraft is starting with GDU Version 20 software.
Database Direction
Legacy G1000: All databases (except NavData) are stored and accessed on two SD cards in the lesser G1000 PFD and MFD slots; NavData is loaded into meridian slots for storage in internal memory, unremarkably from a 3rd SD card.
G1000 NXi: All active databases reside in the G1000 NXi's very large internal memory. Consequently to update whatsoever of the NXi databases, you use your PC/Mac to download all databases to merely a unmarried 32 GB SD carte du jour, and insert it into the lesser MFD slot. When yous boot the organization, current databases are read from the bill of fare into internal retention of both PFD and MFD via a synchronization process, simply don't accept upshot until you kick the system a 2nd time. At that point you lot can remove the SD card completely because it'southward not used by the organization.
(At some point I might substitute a $1500 FlightStream 510 card for the 32 GB SD card, thus wirelessly synching the MFD and PFD internal memory databases with new databases on an iPad, but this requires Garmin Pilot on the iPad; I'm still using Foreflight.)
New Functionality
In general, NXi provides a superset of previous G1000 functionality; the "buttonology" is pretty much the same.
- VFR Charts (shown below), IFR low charts, and IFR high charts are now included with the Garmin OnePak subscription bundle; these tin can be displayed on the MFD, overlaid with magenta course, traffic, etc. (just like Foreflight or Garmin Airplane pilot). This makes use of an iPad less necessary. I took this shot from the ground with the plane sitting in the hangar; note that cherry Xs (since the engines aren't running) are now yellowish Xs on the G1000 NXi.
I found out the difficult manner that if you lot load Canadian charts right after the United states of america charts, it wipes out the U.s.a. charts; patently you lot can merely load i land's charts at a time. I guess this makes sense since dissimilar countries accept dissimilar native chart formats, and thus they wouldn't blend very well at the border.
- Electronic Stability and Protection (ESP) is included with Diamond NXi implementations. This too permits flying coupled missed approaches (i.due east., the autopilot doesn't go into append mode at the MAP). Note that ESP could be implemented (requires a software unlock card) with legacy G1000s, but requires GSM 86 (instead of GSM 85) servo mounts -- generally included in 2013+ DA40/DA42/DA62 shipping.
- The PFD inset map can now be placed inside the circular HSI.
- When yous tune a radio frequency, the proper noun of the belfry, CTAF airdrome, approach, ATIS, ARTCC, etc. is shown (which helps go on you from calling the wrong frequency)
- A new Vertical Situation Display on the lesser i/3 of the MFD shows winds aloft and terrain below as before, but now also includes your musical instrument approach in contour view.
- When you load a flying programme, information technology'south now very conspicuously separated into Deviation Airport (with runway!), Enroute waypoints, and Arrival Drome (with rails).
- When flight plans are displayed on the MFD, the instrument approach program view includes waypoint/fix crossing altitudes on the map.
- And lots of other small improvements I can't retrieve.
For the DA42 and DA62 twins:
- A full-page MFD "Engine" folio for the first fourth dimension (but like the DA40) shows all the engine gauges, systems, TKS fluid levels, fuel tanks, etc. on a unmarried folio instead of simply on the left side of the MFD.
- Fuel gauges for the Auxiliary Tanks! For the offset fourth dimension in Diamond twins, you tin can know how much fuel is in the Aux tanks located in the rear of the engine nacelles.
What'southward Missing
By browsing the G1000 NXi manuals for other aircraft (eastward.g., Cessnas, Beechcraft, Cirrus, Piper), you can see what Diamond chose to leave out of its NXi software:
- No "Visual Approach" loading (new feature that synthesizes three degree visual approaches even for runways that take no published musical instrument approaches)
- No "Surface Watch" that provides your taxiway or runway position, how many feet are left during takeoff or landing, if you're landing on the wrong runway, etc.
- No electronic Checklists for the DA62 (this softkey is present simply grayed out). I tried loading a chklist.ace file for the DA42 NG on the SD card, but it wasn't recognized by the G1000 NXi.
N62DV DA62 62.056
N42DA DA42-Six 42.N117 (sold)
N811ET DA40 XLS 40.874 (sold)
KJYO Leesburg, Virginia
Source: https://www.diamondaviators.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6037
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