SkyRadar Update

We have good ADS-B coverage locally these days, and I’m regularly pulling up the winds reported at my destinations via the GRT’s DETAILS page, and getting lots of traffic (part of that is because I have the GTX330ES doing the “activation” of nearby transponders), but I’m also seeing myself. Turns out I need to tell […]

Panel Pictures

I’m mostly posting this to show the new approach plates and charts options, but folks always want to see a combined set of final panel pictures. Low Altitude Approach chart left, sectional right, Geo-Referenced! I68 GPS Runway 1 Approach Plate CO Guardian and Pulse Oximeter reads out on our HX screens This is the screen […]

Installing the SkyRadar-D ADS-B

One of our purchases this year was the Radenna SkyRadar-D, for dual band. We already had the Garmin GTX330ES, the ES giving us ADS-B out capability and TIS in, but we had been using a WxWorx reciever for our weather information into the GRT EFIS. That worked really well, and actually has a bit better radar resolution (at least […]

CO Guardian Testing

Here’s just a quick shot of the CO Guardian’s interface on the HX PFD screen. This will be really nice when we’re instrument rated and are climbing over weather to make sure we’re not getting hypoxia.

Third Panel, Part V

UPDATED: new pictures The third panel is progressing nicely. In the last update I’d just covered the panel in carbon. Since then I’ve pulled the harness into the copilot side conduit and started terminating the wires. I took this week off as my ‘spring break’ and spent all of it connecting wires. I’ve got the […]

Third Panel, Part IV

I’m almost ready to start putting the panel back together. I’ve floxed bars into the sides of the fuselage to tie into the bar on the bottom of the panel. Hopefully this will stiffen it enough to allow it to be used to rack your seat fore and aft. I’ve also covered the panel in […]