let me say first i am not a pilot but want to be. the problem is naturally money. especially since the economy took a dip. i do however own a set of rv-3 preview plans.
so this has been bopping about in my mind for the past few months. the efis units all have a brain box and a screen. radios take up huge space. shouldn't it be possible to build a box that is out of the way and maybe have the knobs on the side by the arm rest. the screen could either be integrated with your efis or be a separate screen.
in my minds eye this would be a super radio with all the nav, comm, transponder, whatever it is called that shows other planes, that ham radio that lets your wife have piece of mind.....
it would also talk to the runway data base and let you set up a frequency queue and flip/flop- monitor. lets see oh yea it would let you listen to xm and have some sort of intercom mix that would set priorities.
oh yea also set up to some sort of standard that the major players like advanced, grt, garmin could all agree to.
i know i'm crazy for wanting this unless someone is already doing it and i missed it but i really do want to build a light 3. i know, redundancy, not all your eggs in one basket thing but i think a powerful one screen cockpit would be cool.
well let me know.
leon
so this has been bopping about in my mind for the past few months. the efis units all have a brain box and a screen. radios take up huge space. shouldn't it be possible to build a box that is out of the way and maybe have the knobs on the side by the arm rest. the screen could either be integrated with your efis or be a separate screen.
in my minds eye this would be a super radio with all the nav, comm, transponder, whatever it is called that shows other planes, that ham radio that lets your wife have piece of mind.....
it would also talk to the runway data base and let you set up a frequency queue and flip/flop- monitor. lets see oh yea it would let you listen to xm and have some sort of intercom mix that would set priorities.
oh yea also set up to some sort of standard that the major players like advanced, grt, garmin could all agree to.
i know i'm crazy for wanting this unless someone is already doing it and i missed it but i really do want to build a light 3. i know, redundancy, not all your eggs in one basket thing but i think a powerful one screen cockpit would be cool.
well let me know.
leon