Ed_Wischmeyer
Well Known Member
Here's a real gotcha...
Suppose you discover one day that you transponder/encoder check has timed out, and you need to get them rechecked to be legal...
In the old days, it wasn't hard to get permission to fly to another airport and get that done.
Along comes ADS-B. To discourage scofflaws, you now have to jump through high, narrow hoops to ferry a plane without ADS-B. And ADS-B requires an encoder for an altitude source. So if your encoder times out, no ADS-B. Of course, one of the conditions of flying without ADS-B is that you have to have a working transponder and encoder... GOTCHA!
AOPA Government Affairs will be working this issue...
My solution? ASRS report to cover my inadvertent error, and wait a few weeks for the transponder guy to have a chance to come to my plane. Done yesterday.
For you G3X Touch folks out there, when you do the encoder check, the tester needs to be attached to all three ports of the GSU 25 (pitot, static, AOA) to prevent damage to the unit. This is all described in the G3X Touch installation guide.
Suppose you discover one day that you transponder/encoder check has timed out, and you need to get them rechecked to be legal...
In the old days, it wasn't hard to get permission to fly to another airport and get that done.
Along comes ADS-B. To discourage scofflaws, you now have to jump through high, narrow hoops to ferry a plane without ADS-B. And ADS-B requires an encoder for an altitude source. So if your encoder times out, no ADS-B. Of course, one of the conditions of flying without ADS-B is that you have to have a working transponder and encoder... GOTCHA!
AOPA Government Affairs will be working this issue...
My solution? ASRS report to cover my inadvertent error, and wait a few weeks for the transponder guy to have a chance to come to my plane. Done yesterday.
For you G3X Touch folks out there, when you do the encoder check, the tester needs to be attached to all three ports of the GSU 25 (pitot, static, AOA) to prevent damage to the unit. This is all described in the G3X Touch installation guide.