Flightstream is just a piece of hardware that connects to your iPad (or Android tablet) via bluetooth. Once connected, it interfaces with EFB apps. I use Foreflight on an iPad, but Garmin Pilot has an Android version and you can use that to send flight plans to your navigator.
Disregard my question, I use an Android tablet and have a G430W. I use iFLY for ADSBin as Garmin Pilot won’t talk to flightstream.
Maybe I don’t understand what you said. Flightstream won’t talk to Garmin Pilot? They are both made by Garmin, and list compatibility in their manuals. Not to mention that would be a little bananas but I admit I haven’t used Garmin Pilot so don’t know first hand.
Oops I mean free flight
I have the exact same bird with the exact same 430/420. We did the GTN650 on top and moved the 430 where the 420 used to be. With FlightStream about $19k all in.
I had the same configuration, and made the same choice as Deidre, although if I were doing it today with current prices, I would make the choice Scott did; upgrade 430 #1 to a GTN 650, and add a FS 510. This preserves the single RS 422 port for feeding GTX 345 data to the MFD, which now works with release 8.2.2.
While I really like the display and intelligence of the GTN, my #2 GNS 420 stays on the page that gives me Lat/Lon and distance to the nearest airport; that information isn’t available on a single page in the GTN. Why Lat/Lon? I fly primarily over the water, so it’s the most relevant position representation that SAR people would use in trying to find me. Yes, this is possible to generate with the map cursor on the GTN, but everything I need in an emergency is on one page on the GNS, which I prefer.
Had a similar experience. Cirrus wiring harnessed have a bunch of splicing just before they plug into the back of the MFD/PFD. For example, there are three hot power wires that splice into 1 and go into a single pin in the back of the MFD. May be similar in the PFD… This means that over time, the splices may come lose and create intermitten power. The capacitor’s in the PFD and MFD keep the computer running if it’s just flickering quickly.
Well, there’s actually one power wire that’s wired to 3 pins in the MFD connector. Same with the earth. So there will be a splice, but it’s not three wires to one pin, it’s the other way around.
The PFD (unlike the MFD) has redundant power sources - it’s separately supplied by both the essential and the main bus - one pin each, no splices. So an intermittent power supply is unlikely because it would have to affect both buses simultaneously.
In any case if there was an issue with power it would manifest with the PFD rebooting, not just flickering. Flickering of the display is going to be an internal defect, probably a display cable connector.