N941WR
Legacy Member
Yesterday while showing my project to a fellow RV builder and now flier it occurred to me how lucky we homebuilders are.
As I?m building my simple Day / Night VFR airplane I have managed to include a LOT of redundant features. The funny part is that I didn?t design the electrical system with a lot of redundancy in mind because I intend to keep this thing VFR only.
As I talked through the systems it just hit me like a ton of bricks.
The duel Pmags I?m installing give me triple redundancy by being self powered and being able to run off the ships electrical system.
The Garmin 396 has an internal battery so it has backup power.
The Dynon D100 EFIS has a 2.5 hour backup battery so, again, it has backup power.
If I bring my hand held radio with me then I have just about everything I need.
More actually, because I don?t need the radio to get back on the ground.
What have the others of you done that falls into this category?
As I?m building my simple Day / Night VFR airplane I have managed to include a LOT of redundant features. The funny part is that I didn?t design the electrical system with a lot of redundancy in mind because I intend to keep this thing VFR only.
As I talked through the systems it just hit me like a ton of bricks.
The duel Pmags I?m installing give me triple redundancy by being self powered and being able to run off the ships electrical system.
The Garmin 396 has an internal battery so it has backup power.
The Dynon D100 EFIS has a 2.5 hour backup battery so, again, it has backup power.
If I bring my hand held radio with me then I have just about everything I need.
More actually, because I don?t need the radio to get back on the ground.
What have the others of you done that falls into this category?