The TBM850 is a remarkable airplane, but for the first year of its life it came with a dated instrument panel. While perfectly capable of every navigation task, it had what amounted to a glorified "six-pack" panel-but with Garmin GPSs and a high-end Honeywell/ Bendix-King autopilot. "I flew an 850 on a long crosscountry with Nicolas Chabbert, EADS Socata's vice president of sales and marketing, and it was clear that since other manufacturers were leaping on the all- glass cockpit bandwagon, the TBM850 was being left behind in the panel department," says Editor at Large Tom Home.
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