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Jay,
The new panel looks great. I am sure you will enjoy flying it. Tom helped me on my plane as well and you are right, his work is perfection. Up in the northern states we are still hangar bound with temps below zero and lots of snow. I hope to get out this weekend weather permitting. |
It seems like it was yesterday when you were trying to decide which way to go.
I had the SX in my 8a and loved it. The EIS 4000 is bullet proof, you have a good combo and I'm sure you will love it. |
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Our autopilot is a terrific TruTrack Digiflight II. The thing has been perfect, so we kept it in the panel.
We flew 1.5 hours today. The GRT (and all other avionics) worked perfectly -- EXCEPT the GRT still isn't talking to the autopilot. Argh. When I engage the autopilot, it starts tracking...something. It ain't the course to the destination in either the Garmin or the GRT, but it very precisely and persistently tracks it! lol But everything else was AWESOME. Ran a stall regime to calibrate our airspeed indicator, swung the magnetometer on a nearby compass rose, and flew a couple Highway In The Sky approaches. Wow, those are COOL. I plan to spend an hour or three on the phone with Stein tomorrow, going through every single setting. |
And don't forget for the new system to be "legal" you will need to certify the new transponder/altimeter/altitude encoder (assuming you are now using the GRT as the encoder).
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Speaking of which -- how do I determine the discrete code to program into the GRT's transponder that is transmitted? The N number part is obvious, but there's another code that it's asking for. The guys at Stein didn't know.
Here's a pix from today's flight. Wow, what a difference! ![]() |
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Thanks, Walt!
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Jay, don't try to squeeze the black out of the stick, it can't be done.
Less PC tips for flying available via PM. :D |
26 wires?
Once you get things sorted out, I can pretty much promise you that you'll always use the EFIS to control the autopilot - it's just much easier. (You also get heading hold, and VOR, ILS tracking if you have a nav, which the TT won't handle on its own.)
But having that switch so you can run the autopilot directly off the G300, in the event of an EFIS failure, is not a bad idea. I only count 9 wires: 2 ARINC and one Serial; one triplet from the EFIS, one triplet from the G300, and one triplet to the autopilot. What are all the other wires for? |
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