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Re:All Garmin Connect services are down by briandear on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @07:36AM (#42633528)
Garmin glass cockpits don’t depend on Garmin services at all. Perhaps updating charts but that’s a monthly thing generally and it’s not done while airborne.

The “not FAA approved” isn’t a thing — there are devices that go in uncertified (experimental) aircraft, but those also don’t depend on live connections to Garmin services.

Re:All Garmin Connect services are down by xattt on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @07:48AM (#42633615)
How would an aircraft be able to reliably “stream in” maps while in flight?

That argument makes no sense, other than a red herring saying “durr, glass cockpit bad”.

Re:All Garmin Connect services are down by HappyJoy on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @08:04AM (#42633747)
They don't. Glass avionics have a charts database that's physically updated about every month