Most of the items sound labor intensive, and will be a pain to resolve. However, with that said, the reality is most of them are fairly minor. For the data path issue, do not just try and replace parts parts. Go to an avionics shop that has a junior member on staff that can spend the hours checking ...

Does anyone know what the current disposition of Diamond Canada vs. Diamond Austria is? Will the Chinese parent eventually buy the whole thing? If they aren't going to buy the whole thing, and the Chinese already own Continental, doesn't it make more sense for them to return to Technify engines? Ar...

Scott,

Sure go ahead and put me down as lost potential customer due to upgrade issue. I would put it under a separate list, so there is no overlap.

Tim

Great Charles! Thank you. 14. Charles N5WU DA40 How about you Timothy – can we add your name to the list too? If talking to me, I do not own a Diamond. I have rented them, and almost bought a DA-42 twice. The last time was six months ago, I had the financing arranged, as about to engage a buyer age...

It would be nice the have WAAS and the other Garmin goodies but basically I think the DA42 TDI is perfectly OK for all of the reasons I bought mine eight years ago. However I will happily sign any petitions to Garmin or to Diamond (or to the FTC if someone wants to claim that Diamond's unreasonable...

Here is the answer from my Garmin contact: ------------------------------------------------------------- Hello Tim, since this is an OEM airframe under a type certification they really need to be directing their questions to Diamond on doing this. unless there is a larger number of owners (and I'm t...

Totally agree with you both (Emir & Keith)! The only one counterpoint I would make to Emir's post is that potential buyers of new Diamond aircraft might think twice about their possible purchase if they foresee down the road their aircraft might too one day receive the same lack of avionics sup...

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guida ... enDocument

Timing Chain replacement/inspection due to windmilling restarts

Here is a slightly dated analysis by a large Diamond shop:

http://www.greatlakesdiamond.com/hourly ... -for-da42/

Tim

Tim, I don't use the Jepp plates on my G1000, just use the plates on my iPad from ForeFlight. I do, however, use all the approach data that loads into the flight plan with altitudes, etc., and all the airways, nav waypoints etc., that are needed to fly a clearance. I assume all that info would be i...