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Old 07-20-2013, 07:24 AM
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For VFR, the SkyView is your backup system. Your eyes are your primary system.
I get your point, but to be legal for day VFR:

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Part 91 VFR minimum equipment: airspeed, altimeter, compass, tachometer, fuel gauge, oil temperature, oil pressure
Of course should I have a complete failure in the air I think I could fly the plane just fine. Navigation could be a chore - I'm thinking of an iFly 720 to provide a level of navigational redundancy.
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Old 07-20-2013, 07:27 AM
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This is about as simple as it gets this side of steam but it does have a backup. The GRT Sport for everything you need to know and the Trio to get down, around or through 1000/3 summer time haze.

EIS 4000 is reliable as anything so long as there is juice in the battery.

Beyond that, it is a VFR panel in a VFR airplane and is eye balls and ears for sight, sound, and feel.

Any more panels of glass in a VFR airplane just clutters things. KISS. I'd rather have a new pick up.




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Old 07-20-2013, 10:01 AM
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You have been through 3 Adahars boxes? What caused such a reliability issue?
See this thread:

http://www.vansairforce.com/communit...d.php?t=101844

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Old 07-20-2013, 03:03 PM
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Part 91 VFR minimum equipment: airspeed, altimeter, compass, tachometer, fuel gauge, oil temperature, oil pressure
how hard is it to get all that in a Skyview RV12 ?
the Airspeed and Altimeter are easy, no problem T-ing into the static and pitot lines.
Fuel guage is the sight strip on the tank
magnetic compass easy

so how do you get Tach, Oil P and Oil T
are they simple to wire into the existing probes?
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Old 07-20-2013, 04:19 PM
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tach, oil p and t are all electrical sensors on the Rotax whose outputs are wires that come through the firewall. You are not in violation of the regs if you have an EFIS failure in flight without a "backup!" Certified planes have plenty of non-redundant instruments on that list. I think a good realistic backup would be the Dynon D1 Pocket Panel and an old GPS. (Yes, I know it is not really "airspeed...")

Note that the pitot tubing on the Skyview RV12 passes from the prop spinner through the firewall and aft, but the static system is all back in the tailcone. To get static to the panel would require more tubing run forward.
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