rmcguire007

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Is the Sidewinder still available?

So to all that have been following my post about the Garmin GTN750 software upgrade affecting the Shadin Miniflo series fuel to destination being zero I spent a year arguing with Garmin that its a software bug in their update. I recently upgraded to the latest Garmin software release and I still had the same issue. I actually had to build my own test harness and give them rs232 stream dumps from both directions. The Shadin folks were great to work with and gave me their word format for the data and we also located an old Garmin data word format on the net somewhere. I was able to prove to Garmin that it is their problem and they were able to reproduce it in there lab. The data they were sending to the Shadin in the fuel to destination field was filled with dashes. Funny that's not a number to me.They tell me they will have a fix for it (hopefully) in the next update.

I did upgrade to release 6.11 on my GTN750 and have had two issues Affected equipment is a shadin Miniflo and King KCS55A 1. Course Warning light will not extinguish when setting the course pointer to the correct heading 2. Shadin Miniflo no longer displays fuel to destination and fuel reserve. However the garmin shows it correctly on the fuel utilities screen. I have heard from garmin that JPI fuel totalizers have the same issue.