Originally Posted by
ppilot
Why would you think it's illegal for IFR? Of course it's legal!
The brand new Falcon 2000EZ my company used to fly had a Garmin 496 in it because the airplane didn't have a nexrad uplink.
I think what somedayRJ meant was you can't do IFR-RNAV/GPS approaches with it, as according to Garmin's website it is only VFR intended. Lot's of cool stuff though... just seems a little ghetto that a nice shiny new VLJ would need a handheld (IMHO)