A gremlin was intermittently switching our traffic system to standby during flight

Considering the advanced technical nature of Cirrus Perspective by Garmin avionics we’ve found it relatively trouble-free. But recently we had a gremlin in our avionics.  He intermittently switched our traffic system to standby during flight, which required us to select the traffic page and press the soft key to reactivate the system. Continue reading “A gremlin was intermittently switching our traffic system to standby during flight”

We chased a gremlin in our Cirrus Perspective avionics

Considering the advanced technical nature of Cirrus Perspective by Garmin avionics platform we’ve found it relatively trouble-free. But we have encountered one gremlin in our avionics, which occurred before the software version upgrade previously written about last week. Continue reading “We chased a gremlin in our Cirrus Perspective avionics”

What’s the cost to update software on the Cirrus Perspective by Garmin?

Recently, we decided to upgrade to a newer software version, which has some additional features and information displays.  We were operating on Cirrus Perspective by Garmin software version 764.15 and wanted to install version 764.24. The estimated time required was about three hours, but we had some problems during the upgrade. Continue reading “What’s the cost to update software on the Cirrus Perspective by Garmin?”