I recently purchased the Flight One Pipe Meridian. It is one nice aircraft, with one exception.  The Garmin 500. I guess one has to be much more technically oriented than me to be able to do anything with this instrument. I even went so far as to purchase XP Reality's 530-XP, and that really put me into orbit. It would be nice to be able to fly that aircraft with the old standby MS GPS so someone like myself could at least enjoy flying an expensive payware aircraft using either FS9 flight planner or FSNavigator. (They are much less agravating to use.) 

Has anyone out there  been able to figure this thing out? I am burned out from reading XP reality's and the Meridian manuals to no  avail.

Thanks: Totally frustrated.

Thanks for the comeback Chomp_Rock, I went to the Flight One forum sight and they have helped me with my problems with the Garmin 530. I just could't wrap my old brain around the method required to program the unit. But things are getting clearer now.

Thanks.