MartySantic
Well Known Member
Anyone installing the Navworx in the RV-12? Would like to know how the install is progressing. The website indicates shipping was to begin on March 1.
It is possible to use the D-180 EMS Pin 9 for another purpose instead of spar pin warning. The D-180 spar pin warning is redundant because there is already a big red light on the instrument panel to warn about spar pins. And the engine will not start if a spar pin is not locked in place regardless of whether or not the spar pins are connected to the D-180 EMS contact input. On my RV-12, I connected that contact input to an airspeed switch and a flap switch in parallel to ground. If the airspeed is too high and the flaps are deployed, then the D-180 alarms. The alarm has warned me a few times when I either lowered the flaps while going too fast, or forgot to raise them after having to unexpectedly abort a landing and go around.3) The D180 contact pins are both taken (stall and spar pin) so I'm wiring a discrete LED to flash if UAT Fail asserts.
I suppose we could repurpose the spar warning. You just interrupt the input on the D180 and replace with the output from the ADS600EXP.
FreeFlight just announced a $1995 ADS-B Out solution. The In option requires one of their WiFi modules (about $125 as I recall).
Kinda ticks me off after forking over $3400 for the FreeFlight XVR-978 and WiFi module at OSH, but I knew what I was getting into.