The certification would bring the price up to the price of the G600. (The G900 isn't certified)
P-mags would have like 3 AD's on them by now with the teething problems they've had.
I the whirlwind propeller should be certified myself.
Who told you the G900X isn't certified? It carries over 50 TSO's and both (2) GPS's are WAAS certified, components are certified, AHRS is certified, etc....
Just wondering where you got that information or if it was just assumed that the G900X was "non certified". No flame intended, just trying to keep the record straight!
Their certification is part of the reason these things are more popular than people may realize.
Regarding certification of these EFISes, it's so much more complex than most of us can realize. Most of our affordable EFISes wouldn't pass even some of the basic requirements for certification. Some would pass some of the test, but as a whole there is a HUGE difference. That's part of the beauty of what we get to fly behind, but realize it's a double edged sword. What we deem as "working ok for a certain time period" isn't necessarily the only thing that dictates a particular product as worth of certification, nor would I want it to be. I would like to see some loosing of arcane paperwork rules, replacement of many dumb spec's and see the FAA move into the modern age, but I'd also like to see some of the stuff kept in there. Take a very quick but important example. Certified EFISes have to know when they are sick, or if their data stream misses a byte or two, etc.. and then alert the pilot to that sickness IMMEDIATELY. This is not an easy task and one that hardly any of our lower cost systems do. Some do to some extent, but not nearly enough to come close to passing a certification.
Anyway, I digress. Certainly some of the stuff we get to play with is better than what is available to the certified crowd. That I would never debate. Also, the FAA needs to modernize their certification requirements and "ahem" some of their people. But, that doesn't mean the current specifications are without merit. I think it needs to be somewhere in the middle. There is NO reason that a 1946 staggerwing should be required to re-install stuff that was outdated 25 years ago....
Things like "PMags" will most certainly be certified at some point. Right now I think they are on their way, but there was wayyyy to many growing pains for me to jump on board as saying it's certification worthy just yet. Same with whirlwind. Both of those technologies promise a good future, and both may indeed end up being certified, but both have a ways to go before they are entirely proven - at least in my dumb opinion!
Then again, I fly a plane full of NON certified stuff. Non certified engine with a non certified alternator, non certified switches, non certified spark plugs/ignition, non certified fuel pump, non certified prop, non certified EFISes, non certified autopilot, so on and so forth so I'm being a wee bit of a hypocrite too.....
My 2 cents as usual!
Cheers,
Stein
