Diamond is still unable to certify a subset of the G1000NXi (aka Perspectve+) features that were standard on Cirrus five years ago. It's worse than that. My DA62 was one of the first equipped with NXi in early 2017, when Garmin was advertising NXi features like Visual Approaches and SurfaceWatch fo...

Especially if they work for a Diamond distributor, aircraft sales brokers typically have pre-existing relationships with insurance brokers who understand Diamonds and/or have experience in working with low-time pilots. They may also have an idea of which insurance underwriters are more likely to ins...

Russ, great pirep on getting the nose wheel up on the tug. I'd been looking at the EZ Load option and I think I'll go for it. If anyone has thoughts on other options on the BestTugs Bravo series (Lights, GPU/Jumpstart, Lazy Susan), that'd be interesting to hear and hopefully won't be too big of a t...

I had a single alternator failure (for real) during an IFR flight in our Austro DA42-VI some years ago. Besides the alternator fail annunciation, the volts/amps went to zero on that engine (this was a legacy G1000, not NXi). The good news is that I didn't have to do anything to continue the flight n...

No need to leave fuel in the AUX tanks of either the DA42 or DA62 (except for tank capacity, the systems are very similar). I'm not sure how you'd know you have 1 gal left in the tank of a DA42, since (unlike most DA62s) there are no DA42 AUX tank fuel gauges. We flew DA42 and DA62 for 9 years and r...

I am wondering if the planes that were built in Austria typically have less of these types of issues? My 2017 DA62 was built in Austria, and while its fit and finish was pretty good, there were some quality control issues -- such as the "DA62" vinyl decal on the tail that was installed cr...

Is dual cue a feature, like 3D audio, that can be enabled in the G1000NXi setup? That's exactly what I was thinking. I think there's a high probability that the option might be enabled in G1000 configuration/maintenance mode somewhere. FWIW, our Epic G1000 NXi (with software equivalent to Diamond's...

3D audio in a Garmin audio panel has nothing to do with "spatial audio" or head-related transfer function (where the frequency response of music is modified based on where it's coming from, to take into account the shape of the listener's ears). Garmin 3D audio in the GMA 1360 is much simp...

John: There are old threads that discuss how to do this, but creating new or backup SDCards is relatively straightforward. For legacy G1000, you use the flyGarmin app on your PC to download the desired database files onto an SDCard for the PFD, and another SDCard for the MFD. Cards usually don't nee...

I was unaware that the DA50 -- with an engine in the front of the fuselage, unlike Diamond twins -- had a location for mounting weather radar. But if you look at the GWX 75 MPEL diagram included in the Garmin G1000 NXi manual, it appears that radar emissions emanate from the right wing, perhaps prov...