N546RV
Well Known Member
Alright, fun conversation time. I keep working on firming up my panel plans, and this is the one spot where I've flip-flopped multiple times.
Aircraft mission will be primarily VFR, though I want IFR capability for those days when there's an overcast layer to punch through. With this in mind, I'm not after extreme redundancy, but I will still be planning for some kind of backup/failover ability. Rough panel plan is for a Skyview system and a 650 or IFD440 for the TSO'd GPS.
When I originally was drawing up panels, I wanted two screens, and was generally planning on a pair of 7" Skyviews. Later, after looking at price lists and comparing to my bank account, said plans tended more towards a single 10" display.
Question 1 is kinda the easy one: Does anyone out there running a single EFIS screen find themselves wishing they had the extra screen real estate? Part of me thinks it'd be nice not to cram PFD/map/engine all onto one screen, the other part points out that it's not exactly a small screen...
Question 2 is more fun and kinda expands on 1: Keeping in mind my redundancy thoughts above, let's suppose that option 1 is a single Skyview EFIS and a separate backup instrument (G5/GRT Mini/etc), and option 2 is a dual Skyview with no separate backup. Assume that in either case, the backup instrument is supplied with an equivalent backup battery system or some such.
What are people's thoughts on the pros and cons here? Option 1, to me, does provide some extra redundancy, but at the expense of having an instrument that's chopped liver 99.9% of the time. Option 2 sacrifices a bit of redundancy in favor of an instrument that's more useful day-to-day.
At the moment I feel #2 fits a little better with my mission, but I'm here to find out all the reasons I'm wrong. Fire away!
Aircraft mission will be primarily VFR, though I want IFR capability for those days when there's an overcast layer to punch through. With this in mind, I'm not after extreme redundancy, but I will still be planning for some kind of backup/failover ability. Rough panel plan is for a Skyview system and a 650 or IFD440 for the TSO'd GPS.
When I originally was drawing up panels, I wanted two screens, and was generally planning on a pair of 7" Skyviews. Later, after looking at price lists and comparing to my bank account, said plans tended more towards a single 10" display.
Question 1 is kinda the easy one: Does anyone out there running a single EFIS screen find themselves wishing they had the extra screen real estate? Part of me thinks it'd be nice not to cram PFD/map/engine all onto one screen, the other part points out that it's not exactly a small screen...
Question 2 is more fun and kinda expands on 1: Keeping in mind my redundancy thoughts above, let's suppose that option 1 is a single Skyview EFIS and a separate backup instrument (G5/GRT Mini/etc), and option 2 is a dual Skyview with no separate backup. Assume that in either case, the backup instrument is supplied with an equivalent backup battery system or some such.
What are people's thoughts on the pros and cons here? Option 1, to me, does provide some extra redundancy, but at the expense of having an instrument that's chopped liver 99.9% of the time. Option 2 sacrifices a bit of redundancy in favor of an instrument that's more useful day-to-day.
At the moment I feel #2 fits a little better with my mission, but I'm here to find out all the reasons I'm wrong. Fire away!