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Buck's RV-8
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Date: 1-18-2007
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Number of Hours: 0.00
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Brief Description: Panel Planning
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(5.5 hours) I spent a considerable amount of time today reviewing my overall plan for my instrument panel.
I have been increasingly unsatisfied with the interfaces between the AFS-3400, Garmin 430, Garmin SL-30, and the TruTrak autopilot. It seems to me that, while the AFS folks claim their EFIS display will "work with" the other units, there is little "designed comptatibility" between them at this point. Conversely, the Grand Rapids Technologies (GRT) website contains a ton of specific, direct, operating instructions for the exact GPS/NAV/COM and autopilot units I want to use. For instance, their manual describes, in great detail, how to fly a coupled ILS with a Garmin 430 and a TruTrak DigiFlight II VSVG autopilot, along with all the indications and annunciations you'd actually see.
Because of this, I sat down and played a few "what-if" games with the ePanelBuilder software, just for fun, and came up with the panel below, which still retains the redundancy of my previous design, plus some extra goodies. The Turn Coordinator may not be needed -- I'll have to do some more research.
I also downloaded and printed out both the AFS-3400 and GRT Horizon EFIS manuals. I'll be studying them carefully during the next few days, while I'm on a trip. This panel would cost me about $9k more than my previous design, when I add the second display, XM weather receiver, and Garmin 330 transponder. (I've got to have those if the EFIS is capable of displaying their data!)
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Panel concept, 1/18/2007.
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