Monday, January 28, 2013

G1000 Data Logging

Michael Vowles has been experimenting with the ability of the G1000 to log data on flights. He recently got this to work in a 172/G1000. The process was to place an SD card in the bottom slot of the MFD. That was it. After the flight, there was a CSV file on the SD card with an entry approximately every second. It records lat/lon, altitude, OAT, IAS, TAS, GS, Vertical speed, fuel, fuel flow, RPM, wind speed and direction, engine, and a number of other parameters. There is a web site that can take this information and put it into a useful format. Below is a report from a recent flight. Interesting data....

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