I've been having issues with my G3X system recently (been flying close to a year with about 80 hours TT). I lost portions of the panel display shortly after takeoff (from Leadville, CO of all places). I climbed for a few minutes while debating whether I should land and everything returned to normal. I decided to return to my home airport (KCFO) and all was normal until it recurred while in the pattern at KCFO. My panel was built by Steinair who suspects that it's a loose connection somewhere in the CAN Bus. I've been pulling harnesses and inspecting them but have yet to find anything amiss.
I've been able to get it to occur a few more times while taxiing and have taken some videos and uploaded to a non-published YouTube channel for SteinAir to review. I believe the errors have been the same every time it's occurred. We're still troubleshooting but I thought it would be worth sharing links to a few of the YT videos just for everyone's information what it looks like. I certainly welcome any suggestions anyone might have.
I believe SteinAir has already been in contact with Garmin but I was hoping the Garmin folks would take a look and offer their thoughts. I will say that SteinAir's support has been excellent and they've reassured me they'll get it figured out and get it fixed. The question is do I feel comfortable flying it about 4 hours to their shop in MN? I feel like all the required instrumentation is there to be legal for VFR flight (between the PFD & MFD) as long as it doesn't act up in any way different than it has to this point. Here are links to a couple of the videos:
https://youtu.be/Rzdw7nKf0Hc
https://youtu.be/KoN2y69CpkE
https://youtu.be/4eJh4cwcf24
I've been able to get it to occur a few more times while taxiing and have taken some videos and uploaded to a non-published YouTube channel for SteinAir to review. I believe the errors have been the same every time it's occurred. We're still troubleshooting but I thought it would be worth sharing links to a few of the YT videos just for everyone's information what it looks like. I certainly welcome any suggestions anyone might have.
I believe SteinAir has already been in contact with Garmin but I was hoping the Garmin folks would take a look and offer their thoughts. I will say that SteinAir's support has been excellent and they've reassured me they'll get it figured out and get it fixed. The question is do I feel comfortable flying it about 4 hours to their shop in MN? I feel like all the required instrumentation is there to be legal for VFR flight (between the PFD & MFD) as long as it doesn't act up in any way different than it has to this point. Here are links to a couple of the videos:
https://youtu.be/Rzdw7nKf0Hc
https://youtu.be/KoN2y69CpkE
https://youtu.be/4eJh4cwcf24