
As we often do with products and companies—partly for our own cynical amusement—my colleague Paul Bertorelli and I were recently feeding off one another and poking holes in Garmin’s hugely successful G1000 integrated avionics. In case you haven’t been counting, the system turned 10 years old last year. In avionics life, that’s a geriatric zone, which was partly the nature of our chiding.