G5 & GFC500 software revsion question

[jamesm]

Hi,

I am curious to know how often people or have the their local avionics shop  update their software on the G5 , GFC500 ?

I hope that I at point to finally finish up on my instrument rating had to pause training last year when I had the GFC500 installed.

I had mine installed a little over a year ago with 6.20.  early after installation I had teething pain when one of my G5 intermittently failed on me.  Took about 2 months to resolve the issue .   I haven't been flying hardly at all this year to really get a good baseline on how thing are functioning on the airplane. I know that there have been a few updates since then but I am little skeptical  of causing too much of a change or unsuspected change.

I was wondering what people thoughts and experiences with the software updating process. is it like the nav data  every month  is when they update software version? or ???

 

Thanks in Advance,

James  '67C

[EricJ]

G5s are pretty easy to update.   We updated mine at least a couple times with no issues.    If you have multiple G5s, they need to be the same version to talk to each other.

[Ragsf15e]

I have had mine in there for a long time without updating them.  They work great and I’d prefer to leave them alone.

[jamesm]

well I updated to 8.00 hopefully I get to try it out tomorrow