BlackRV7
Well Known Member
It's early Christmas time around my house today. I backed up my HS settings prior to sending the DU unit back to GRT. Upon getting my new HX today, it was a simple matter of plugging in my USB stick and updating my prior setup. With that, it was a simple repower up and my unit was working, plug and play right out of the box. You can see from the picture below, the back of the box is quite different. There are now two USB ports along with an Ethernet connection. You can also see the new cooling slots cut into the box.
You can see the difference in the PFD display of the HX and my prior HS. The screen just looks better laid out right out of the box and is crystal clear. It is really something to see.
This is the HS display:
Here is a shot of the MAP portion of the HX. One of the things I noticed immediately is how fast the screens scroll through the various pages. The increased speed of the new processor is obvious. What you are looking at are the mountains, OK knolls just south of my house. I have the Terrain function turned off that is preset to show red to within 500' and yellow from 500' to 1000'.
There is another feature embedded within the software called Internal Virtual GPS. It uses the location data it gets from, in my case, my Garmin 430 and allows me to select a "direct to" using the GRT unit. I can now select simple D-> from the GRT unit and drive my Trio Auto Pilot. I'm about ready to just call this GRT unit a MFD and be done with it....it's that good.
![grthx003fc5.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fimg363.imageshack.us%2Fimg363%2F6299%2Fgrthx003fc5.jpg&hash=f06cbe0d43992dccd36a04bde4a186b5)
You can see the difference in the PFD display of the HX and my prior HS. The screen just looks better laid out right out of the box and is crystal clear. It is really something to see.
![grthx005in7.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fimg379.imageshack.us%2Fimg379%2F8941%2Fgrthx005in7.jpg&hash=31b7c9a4a2a7b933f8d7e672bcda9af7)
This is the HS display:
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Here is a shot of the MAP portion of the HX. One of the things I noticed immediately is how fast the screens scroll through the various pages. The increased speed of the new processor is obvious. What you are looking at are the mountains, OK knolls just south of my house. I have the Terrain function turned off that is preset to show red to within 500' and yellow from 500' to 1000'.
![grthx006sc8.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fimg363.imageshack.us%2Fimg363%2F1074%2Fgrthx006sc8.jpg&hash=9bba81ef1f8535b4475d773cd7561226)
There is another feature embedded within the software called Internal Virtual GPS. It uses the location data it gets from, in my case, my Garmin 430 and allows me to select a "direct to" using the GRT unit. I can now select simple D-> from the GRT unit and drive my Trio Auto Pilot. I'm about ready to just call this GRT unit a MFD and be done with it....it's that good.