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‘Partial panel’ situations in G1000 for IFR Checkride?

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Hello fellow aviators,

I have my IFR Checkride approaching in just over a week and I was wondering if anyone with experience of the flight portion using a G1000 aircraft had any insight regarding the partial panel portion (I.e. ACS task VII.D). It seems that there are really 2 options: (1) to dim the lighting for specific or entire areas of the PFD or MFD (or to pull circuit breakers - no thanks!), or (2) to use adhesive stickers to cover up certain instruments and to then use whatever you’ve still got (standby instruments, mag compass, etc). My instructor and I flew to Sporty’s to buy the stickers and have trained using option (2). If the DPE were to say something along the lines of “whoops, there goes your PFD!” and cover the whole thing up, could I justifiably just turn on reversionary mode and look at the ‘new’ PFD on his side? A lot of questions, so I’ll leave it at that. Thanks in advance! 

Link for g1000 stickers: https://www.sportys.com/pilotshop/safe-discount/glass-cockpit-inop-stickers.html

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  1. KDS on Apr 07, 2019

    Here is what Garmin tells examiners:

    https://www.faa.gov/training_testing/training/fits/guidance/media/G1000.pdf

    However, people are people and everyone has their own idea, so my best advice is to ask the examiner ahead of time or ask someone who has recently taken a check from that examiner.

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  2. Matt J Adams on Apr 08, 2019

    When I took mine the examiner mentioned pulling breakers isn’t an FAA “approved” way of conducting simulated failures.

    On the pfd failure that is exactly what they would want you to do, select your backup display function and fly the rest of the approach using the MFD as your primary display. I would talk through what you’re doing and talk about possibly troubleshooting the issue by checking breakers and the fact you would notify ATC you lost your PFD but want to continue your flight.

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