1966 Piper 160C Enhanced G-1000 Trainer

FSX Piper PA-28-160C Project represents another Rien Cornelissen Cherokee, brought up from FS 2000 to FSX, this time as a 160 HP trainer for the Enhanced Garmin G-1000 for the average single engine pilot.  Locally, we have no equipped trainers like this, hence FSX airplanes with the G-1000 panel, is about all the exposure we will ever get of a “glass panel.”  My take on this project was more of a practical nature, the 160 HP Cherokee, to support a G-1000 panel, had to be converted to a 28 volt D.C. buss and an entire panel reconstruction, allowed the G-1000 panel mod to take place.  I was looking for a platform I could read and fly that never worked out well, in other equipped FSX airplanes.  I believe if there were a rental, converted over to a more modern panel, it would still have engine gauges, with backup “sacred six” gauge sets that could be used if the G-1000 system failed during training. Hereto, true engine leaning with altitude, needs to be demonstrated along with the G-1000, having turned ìauto-leaning offî I hope makes this trainer unique and will encourage others like myself to get use to modern displays and new navigation methods not yet available to rent. A project by Ronald Prindle