Like the old saw about getting to Carnegie Hall, the only way to master the Garmin G1000 is practice, practice, practice. If you’re a sometime user of this system or new to it entirely, you’re wasting good money if you show up for your G1000 flights unprepared.

The people who make training books, videos and DVDs know this and, as a result, quite a lively market has emerged aimed at teaching the G1000. When you know the basics of the system before you even step into the Garmin G1000, you can use flight time to get the hands-on practice that no movie or book can provide, so the training materials have…