For my perspective as 2006 DA42 TDI owner, Emir's point above cannot possibly be emphasised enough - regardless of the hardware configuration and software version your G1000 is currently running. By adding your aircraft you're not only potentially doing yourself a favor, but helping out the entire f...

Season's greetings to Steven Vitale (N239DS) for signing up his DA40 today! Prior to Steven's entry, the list hadn't seen any activity for several days. The total now stands at 108 aircraft, and by way of a friendly reminder we need several hundred (per Garmin). So please tell every Diamond owner yo...

From a paperwork standpoint - it's much more straightforward than that: as my understanding is a FS210 can be signed off as a minor alteration by any appropriately rated avionics shop. Also, from a variety of knowledgeable sources over the years - getting a field approval signed off by any FSDO is n...

UPDATE: Since the above post, here's what I learned during a follow-up call I placed with Isaac the other day. It appears not all DA42 rear bulkheads are made out of the same material – which can impact bluetooth connectivity. Because when Aerotronics was installing a GTX-345R over two years ago (in...

Today another DA40 (N377DS) signed up, thanks to Bernie! We now have exactly twice as many DA40's than DA42's (70 and 35 respectively).

To add your aircraft to the ever growing list, please click HERE Thank you.

Sending out a warm welcome to Al for signing up his DA40 (N475PS) yesterday.

Welcome today to Rob for adding his TwinStar (N42DX) to the list. There are now 35 D42's that have signed up and nearly twice as many DA40's - with 68. Also, after an email exchange with Clint Hurley, and at my encouragement, he added his Academy's only non-G1000 equipped DA-40. For documentation pu...

♦ ♦ ♦ BREAKING GOOD NEWS ♦ ♦ ♦ Today we got a big boost from the FAA, as the list surpassed a major milestone – blasting through the century mark!!! No, not that FAA, but the Flight Aviation Academy of Newnan, Georgia. So a gigantic thank you goes out to Clint Hughey for adding their large fleet of ...

Thanks Dave for clarifying that portion your interesting news. Part of my reasoning for adding the link on your thread was based on a recent post* from David (VHYDZ) where he wrote "for example -VI with NXi owners to record our wish for the broader issue of Diamond updating all of its software....

Since this thread discusses the need for software updates, owners of these aircraft may want to sign the G1000 software petition. To do so, please click HERE A note to your entry will be made saying you're interested in obtaining the "newest GDU Version 20.81 software release".