you usually grace us with interesting stats and data we can chew on.  unfortunately,  this post adds little meat to either argument and zero backup to the  "spend more equals better reliability and function" nonsense we get from the certified box makers.   

If its good enough for American Airlines then I'm probably ok too.   Why don't you send your estimate of reliability to AA for a comment?  Unless you know more than the airline does...

Paul

On 2013-09-07, at 7:56 AM, Sky2high@aol.com wrote:

Panel Avionics - produced only in the thousands, incredible costs associated with R&D and certification, built to operate in a hostile environment, error rate = errors / (flight hours X thousands)

 

Consumer electronics - produced in the millions with reasonable R&D costs and much simpler certification, built to be operated by children and old people, error rate = errors / (tons of operating hours X millions)

 

Yep, looks comparable to me.

 

Grayhawk

 

PS getting two may not be enough...........