Brantel said:
I know it says they want to do a heads up comparison with the two different models but I think they will be loosing a bunch of the greatness from Dynon by going with two different systems. The power in the Dynon system is the ability to share data and swap screens between the units. Very powerfull.
If that was my puppy and I had Van's money, I would put in a D100 on the left and a D180 on the right. This gives the best glass panel features and redundancy for the buck out there. Couple this setup with the new HSI driven by a switchable source of either the SL-30 or the GPS and you got a great system.
Sounds like you've been to someone's booth at an airshow recently
Ok, it's kind of a joke and you're right - to an extent, but you could literally swap out the "Dxxx" in your quote and insert "AFxxx" and your statement would read the same. One uses 2x"DSAB" wires to swap data, the other an ethernet cable. Both have a new "brighter screen", both have combo boxes, and both have backup batteries. Both companies have a lot of new "enhancements/goodies" coming down the pike.
I too sell and install a lot of both (along with producing the OEM harnesses for both companies) so I'm pretty well aware of both systems. Both are excellent systems, and as someone stated previously people in a position like Van's (and to an extent myself) are kind of publically obligated not to favor one company over another - especially when both of them make such nice products.
We're building a -7 now, and we might have to end up having a similar panel for a couple reasons. First, I don't want to make anyone mad, and 2nd it will be a great way for me to demo multiple systems. I'm thinking 1 big Dynon, 1 Big AFS, 1 Blue Mountain, 1 Chelton and 1 GRT outta do it! I'm half serious about that, it would be a pretty neat way to demo all of the screens in a flight condition without openly favoring one over the other, don't you think?
I asked Van's at OSH if I could have the 1st RV-12 kit, and Tom told me I would already have to be down the list a ways, and on top of that I'll have to wait some undeterminate amount of time to get one
You ask....why would someone like me want an LSA - well, I now have a decent amount of employees (14) and I would like to have a "club airplane" for everyone to fly. Cheap & fun to fly, cheap to insure, and most every one of us has the skills to fly it (although you wouldn't know it if you saw some of my landings last week)! Plus, we can take the wings off it and jam into the corner of the hangar if we needed to!
Cheers,
Stein.
