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Last time this happened, there were two effects: on one hand people making fun of not being able to upload their activities to Strava and on the other hand, and

Last time this happened, there were two effects: on one hand people making fun of not being able to upload their activities to Strava and on the other hand, and more seriously, people not being able to use their aviation navigation systems. Can someone comment if the Garmin aviation devices are affected?

ramses0 2y ago
Likely they are, likely it "shouldn't" matter, as all their advertising says: "Not FAA approved [wink]" ...like, in an emergency it's cool to be able to click a button on your watch and see the closest airport, but you're supposed to have paper maps, a flight plan, a checklist, etc, etc.
briandear 2y ago
Garmin glass cockpits don’t depend on Garmin services at all. Perhaps updating charts but that’s a monthly thing generally and it’s not done while airborne. The “not FAA approved” isn’t a thing — there are devices that go in uncertified (experimental) aircraft, but those also don’t depend on live connections to Garmin services.
- xattt 2y ago
  How would an aircraft be able to reliably “stream in” maps while in flight? That argument makes no sense, other than a red herring saying “durr, glass cockpit bad”.
  - HappyJoy 2y ago
    They don't. Glass avionics have a charts database that's physically updated about every month
jayelbe 2y ago
Try visiting their FlyGarmin services at - https://fg.garmin.com https://fg.garmin.com - certainly looks to be down.
- duxup 2y ago
  What indicates it’s down on that site?
  - jayelbe 2y ago
    It was loading a blank white page. Looks like it's back now though!