(See Pete Howell's thread on inflight entertainment (ipod?)) I am still doing a lot of cleanup on our property following the January 27 ice storm here in NW Arkansas but I had to do two instrument approaches to remain current beyond the end of February so I went to the airport this morning. I saw the photos provided in the referenced thread by Pete and that motivated me to take my box of hardware (including the GPS 695) for a fit check using a mount point over the spar between the seats in our (my wife and I) RV-6A. The base in Pete's photo would be more convenient than the RAM mount supplied with my unit - a yoke shaft clamp design with pivot balls at both ends of the split clamp/strut. To my very pleasant surprise the length of the strut places the GPS in a good position without interfering with our legs or any of the instrument panel or the controls on the console. I plan to remove the yoke clamp and grind the clamp base to a flat mounting surface and mount it with screws using the platenuts I previously installed in the seat pan panels over the spar and between the seats for my old reliable GPS 90. It looks like it will be a very practical installation. I already have a "cigarette lighter" outlet wired into the console top back under the instrument panel. In today's flight I used the aircraft power but laid the GPS 695 in the right seat. The display looks good but when I'm flying actual I don't have enough attention span to chance studying the performance of a new unit.
Bob Axsom
Bob Axsom