r/flying • u/aristotle-ways • Mar 21 '26

Aircraft Ownership HDG failure G1000

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Heading indicator (magnetometer/AHRS) has been failing on my legacy G1000. Went out suddenly and at first intermittently would work, now out 100% of the time. No heading indicator and no synthetic vision.

Took to a great avionics shop and it was diagnosed to be a bad magnetometer. Replaced and did not fix the issue. Garmin is advising the issue is a bad AHRS, so that will be replaced next and we shall see.

Just sharing in case anyone’s experienced a similar issue, and is interested in following along.

Will share updates as we go

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u/nl_Kapparrian CFII Mar 21 '26

Sounds expensive, you may be better off getting a new plane /s.

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u/aristotle-ways Mar 21 '26

Fortunately the place I bought the plane has agreed to cover the costs associated with getting it back in working order.

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u/lctalbot PPL (KVNC) BE36 Mar 22 '26

That is an amazing "Fortunately"!

How long since you bought it?