Garman and MSFS2020 and RealSim issues

[navymustang]

I'm hearing rumors that Microsoft is looking at copyright violations with RealSim Gear (or any Garmin look alike) with regards to MSFS2020.

That is, it seems someone at Microsoft is questioning if Garmin has authorized RealSim Gear (and other similar folks) to build one for one look alike systems.

Anyone else see anything on this? What a blow to the sim industry if all of the sudden we no longer can simulate Garmin equipment in our cockpits.


Hope I'm wrong.

Just a quick story - I needed to emulate a Garmin device in a commercial cockpit about 3 years ago. In order to do that I had to buy a real Garmin device, then have an "authorized" vendor here in Orlando modify it so I could communicate with it from P3D. You won't believe how much it cost us to do that.

[bernard S]

oh I do :-)    thats why no Garmin going in my new build which meant have to change to an entire different layout