Oshkosh 2011 - MGL Avionics

[az_gila]

Originally Posted by BillO

.......
Unfortunately, US pilots seem to be completely obtuse to the threat and the "alphabet groups" i.e. AOPA, EAA, etc. have done nothing in opposition. In my local (Tucson, AZ) newspaper, the Arizona Daily Star, three full page ads from LightSquared extolling jobs created, public safety, and general public usage appeared with no mention of any possible effect on general aviation. There was no rebuttal to these ads from any aviation organization. Of course, the military doesn't care, since they have SAASM (with the keys) and jamming-nulling antennas that they can afford (but we can't).
.....Bill

The local Arizona Red Star is not a good source for infomation...

Just to choose one alphabet group, the AOPA, I have been recieving e-mails and news bulletins, with a request to send in a formal public comment to the FCC by the July 31 deadline.

http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/article..._save_gps.html

All pilots should write their own letter and send it in - often these committees just make piles and measure the height of the pro/con piles - we need the pro pile to be a tower.

Or perhaps it's all a plot to sell more sectionals...

[Spid]

Any Youtube video from Oshkosh for the new iEFIS Explorer? I really wish we could see the UI and workflow...

Phil

[miyu1975]

I went to see the new iEfis 3x while at OSH. I was extremly impressed. wonderful graphics and the touchscreen features were amazing.. Rainier and his staff were great with the demos and answered our questions.

[Spid]

Thanks for the feedback Ryan!

Any chance to see it? Maybe some pictures or even better some videos?

Phil

[rpellicciotti]

Originally Posted by miyu1975

I went to see the new iEfis 3x while at OSH. I was extremly impressed. wonderful graphics and the touchscreen features were amazing.. Rainier and his staff were great with the demos and answered our questions.

I'll second this. I was very impressed with the iEfis system and I am really looking forward to the portrait orientation model for a steam gauge retro fit project.

[N9331v]

I got to play around with the MGL IEFIS and all I can say is "AWESOME" its not just another touch screen like a iPad etc, its better.

[pazmanyflyer]

I found the MGL booth and the head bottle washer Rainier. I was speaking with him about their products and I could tell this guy is into his product. Nothing but excitement from him when we talked. This team will go far and they are among my short list of avionics for my build.



Extreme


The new iEFIS (still being fine tuned)




COMM


Transponder

[Spid]

Hi Carlos,

Thank you for the pictures. The iEFIS looks just great... I wish we could read the manual and see it working in a video... I'm curious to see the touchscreen entry UI and menus workflow

Phil

[miyu1975]

the touchscreen does not work like your smartphone where you just lightly touch it and something happens, you can put your fingers on the screen and move around and nothing will happen..you have to actually press the monitor to select something. I especially liked that everything is customizable, everything, i.e. compass rose to small for your liking...you can make it bigger.

I actually did not realize at the time that the orientation can be landscape or portrait...now having visions of dual screens side by side in portrait mode. , but first I have to build a hangar door, move out of the garage and save some $$ up.

[Rainier Lamers]

Thanks for the plug.
To clarify, the touchscreen is a "push screen" as one of our vistors suggested. The reason is obvious - we desperately where looking for a way to use a touchscreen in a real cockpit environment in a small aircraft where it gets tricky to use something like this in turbulence. The solution we have works and works very nicely indeed - but we are not the only ones that came up with this - Rockwell-Collin's version of their new, very nice EFIS that they where demonstrating at Oshkosh is very similar in concept (just a couple of million $ more though).
Of course the screen can do "light" as well and this may be used for certain map/navigation functions but typically only for stuff you would do on the ground.
We still combine the touch screen with plenty of soft keys and more rotary controls we ever had on an EFIS - but that is a direct result of increased functionality and the need for the best user interface on a per operation bases but also to provide backup.
A huge amount of functionality is no use if it is difficult to use in flight.

Anyway, had a great time at Osh - thanks to all that visited our booth, thanks for the great feedback and encouragement and thank you America for making us feel so welcome.
We'll be back...

Rainier
CEO MGL Avionics

Originally Posted by miyu1975

the touchscreen does not work like your smartphone where you just lightly touch it and something happens, you can put your fingers on the screen and move around and nothing will happen..you have to actually press the monitor to select something. I especially liked that everything is customizable, everything, i.e. compass rose to small for your liking...you can make it bigger.

I actually did not realize at the time that the orientation can be landscape or portrait...now having visions of dual screens side by side in portrait mode. , but first I have to build a hangar door, move out of the garage and save some $$ up.