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12-19-2006, 03:01 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Michigan
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I found this for sale on Trade-a-Plane. It may not be exactly what you wanted but it looks like someone did it with a Blue Mountain EFIS.

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12-19-2006, 05:54 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Los Lunas, New Mexico
Posts: 187
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Originally Posted by J5Cub
I found this for sale on Trade-a-Plane. It may not be exactly what you wanted but it looks like someone did it with a Blue Mountain EFIS.

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Pretty neat, but it's only a matter of time until some GIB whacks it with a knee or foot. IMHO, overkill. Too much bling.  We're getting glass happy out there.
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RV8 N94BD 425 hrs. SOLD.
'57 C-180 Skywagon aka "Shrek"
RV10 90% completed empecone kit FOR SALE $3k.
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12-20-2006, 06:24 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Savannah, GA
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It cost about $2000 to add the second EFIS/One screen. The nice thing is you can use all the functions from the back seat. The only down side is that the two screens are not independent. What one sees the other sees. I think a garmin or airmap would be plenty for the back seat driver but they cost almost or more than the second EFIS/One screen.
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RV-10 Vesta V8 LS2/BMA EFIS/One formerly flying at 3J1 Hobbs stopped at 150 hours
Savannah, GA and Ridgeland, SC
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12-20-2006, 09:22 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Houston
Posts: 2,012
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Originally Posted by TSwezey
It cost about $2000 to add the second EFIS/One screen. The nice thing is you can use all the functions from the back seat. The only down side is that the two screens are not independent. What one sees the other sees. I think a garmin or airmap would be plenty for the back seat driver but they cost almost or more than the second EFIS/One screen.
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Garmin 196, $799...
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12-22-2006, 06:34 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Windsor, Colorado
Posts: 22
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Thanks for the Input!
Thanks all of you for the info on configuring the rear cockpit of an -8. We have decided to keep it simple and install an a/s indicator, van's throttle and an Infinity grip (to mimmick the front stick). The rear-seater should be able to do all the flying they want with this configuration. Hope everyone has a great Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thanks again.
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12-22-2006, 03:20 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Catlettsburg, KY
Posts: 36
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camera with screen
When I went throught flight school in the Army we did instrument training in TH67 (JetRangers). The back seater had a LCD screen that had video feed from a cigar camera. The video was of the pilots instruments.
One bad thing about it was it gave the GIB motion sickness if he wasnt careful.
The good thing is you can aim the camera to other places (ie. outside) add a video recorder and tape the flight, formation shots, etc!!!
One other option is to build another RV-8 and you guys can have some great formation flights!!!!
Good luck with your decision!!
Bruce Ray
Savannah, GA
RV-8 QB Currently in test flight phase
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12-22-2006, 09:41 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Tucson Arizona
Posts: 46
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RV-8 back seat panel
I built a back seat panel and added a third GRT EFIS ( I was having building withdrawl). I attached a .063 panel with 4 Adel clamps and it fit great. I have a 1" spacer to make the front seat back more upright and it would hit without this spacer, but I could have moved the EFIS lower on the panel to make it fit without the spacer.
Feedback from any backseater who is a pilot is great - they know everything that is going on. I also use my backseater to run the checklists (make your own with GRT).
Finally, any test program is easier with this panel as the GIB records data
I have the throttle -used occasionally
Rear seat stick - used every flight
Rear seat rudder pedals - used very rarely
Bruce "FM" Edwards MD, MPH
Aerospace Medicine Specialist
RV-8 391FM - flying
IO-360 200 hp
Triple GRT EFIS
Flying Naked (no paint) 79.2 hrs
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12-23-2006, 11:58 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dallas
Posts: 302
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Pictures???
How about some pictures of this install???
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RV-8 "Free Bird" ECI O-360, Hartzell BAFP, All the cool stuff I can find......
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RV-10 N184KW Bought flying.....
Dallas, Texas
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02-13-2017, 10:30 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Aurora, OR
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Adding to a 10-year-old thread, which I know is ridiculous, but sometimes technology catches up. So, if you are an Avidyne IFD series navigator owner, a soon-to-come software update to the IFD 440/540 is supposed to enable their iPad app, which will put "big glass" anywhere you can stick the ipad. Pretty cool stuff, really. They call it IFD100.
http://www.avidyne.com/products/ifd/ifd100.html
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02-14-2017, 08:54 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Newnan, Ga.
Posts: 44
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I have a full size ipad mounted to the back of my front seat using a RAM ball mount and a short arm. It displays moving map and full flight instruments via Foreflight and a Stratus II. I use an ipad mini up front which is panel mounted via an angled bracket just below my Dynon D100 also running Foreflight. Great set up but obviously no engine instruments for the back seat.
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