Had a weird glitch with a G5000 HSI in a King Air last month

I was doing a post-install check on a King Air 350 in Wichita when the HSI started showing a 30 degree heading error. At first I thought it was a bad magnetometer, but the compass system checked out fine. Turned out the ARINC 429 data bus had a loose pin on the backshell connector. Re-crimped the pin and reseated everything, and the error cleared right up. Has anyone else run into intermittent issues like this with the Garmin G5000? It was a pain to track down.

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avery3663d ago

No kidding, a loose pin on that specific bus? That's a nightmare to find.

troy_butler72d ago

Always seems to be the smallest things that cause the biggest headaches...