N54PV Cessna Mustang off runway @ Carlsbad, California . . .

[flyboy97222]

@185Driver

WOW

Poor guy lost the copilots display and autopilot.
Resulting in fatigue from **Hand Flying (OMG!) *** the airplane.
Beings so fatigued as he was he couldn’t fly a proper visual approach.

This is why I feel that pilots should learn to fly in an old noisy taildragger with bad radios.*

AMEN!

[1mooneymite]

@185Driver

WOW

Poor guy lost the copilots display and autopilot.
Resulting in fatigue from **Hand Flying (OMG!) *** the airplane.
Beings so fatigued as he was he couldn’t fly a proper visual approach.

This is why I feel that pilots should learn to fly in an old noisy taildragger with bad radios.*

Yeah! Jets suck.

[azav8r]

@gushertz

Yeah! Jets suck.

…and blow. Of course there’s a squeeze and a bang in the middle…

[Ava123]

@absolutrook

There is a known bug in the G1000 software.

I have seen it in a G58 Baron I used to fly and the Mustang I fly now. At completely odd times, maybe in climb, maybe on descent or in cruise, there will be a red PITCH/TRIM warning that can follow an AFCS failures. This is not an actual run-away trim, but the system thinks it is and kicks off the auto-pilot and disables the electronic trim. In the Baron there was not a means to correct and you would just hand fly the plane until you got on the ground and were able to cycle the avionics. At that point the problem would be solved. The Mustang has an AFCS circuit breaker. When that circuit breaker is cycled in flight the problem is corrected and usually the rest of the trip will proceed uneventfully. I don’t know if they teach this at Flight Safety as I got my types in the plane, but I would hope it would be part ofthe curriculum. Even if the pilot did not know to cycle the AFCS to solve the problem, the only systems that would have been lost is the auto-pilot and the electric trim. He still would have had manually trim wheel and he could hand fly the plane just fine. My guess about why he said he had to exert himself on the controls is that the plane was not trimmed because he lost his electric trim and as he desended and changed the configuration of the plane with flaps, gear, etc he did not correct the trim with the manual wheel. All that has been described is very explainable if you know the aircraft. Happy that no one got hurt.

I really did not know, about this G1000 software bug but it should be fixed after upgrading with new versions.