Third Panel, Part III

Updating the panel is turning into a bit of a drawn out affair. However, I am making progress. Here you can see where I’ve extended the edges of the panel so they fit very nicely to the sides of the fuselage. I may have even made these too tight for the interior, time will tell. […]

Third Panel, Part II – Schematics

The new panel is coming along, though I’m still waiting for some parts here and there. In the meantime I’ve been finalizing the schematics and line listing in preparation for building the wire bundle. VP-X Spreadsheet For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et […]

Third Panel, Part I

The panel we’ve been flying with was very ugly as it was repurposed after Blue Mountain went out of business and we shoehorned the Grand Rapids EFIS in there. In order to get the interior ready we needed the panel to look nice and we decided it would be easier to start fresh. We’ve elected […]

WxWorx Testing

Oh this is sooo cool. I’ve wanted to have on-board weather for a long time. I think it is a huge safety improvement. Let’s face it, if you’re going to be airborne longer than 1 hour or go further than 100 miles, the weather you experience has a very high probability of not being the […]

APRS Ham Radio Tracking of Aircraft

OK, so this is seriously cool. My buddy Mark pointed this out to me, and I think it’s great. I’d been looking at this Kenwood radio ever since I got my Ham license, but knowing that you can hook it up to an AvMa G5 and track other (aprs equipped) airplanes in flight is too cool for school. Since Mark will […]

Trio AutoTrim

Our new Trio Pro autopilot has ‘auto-trim’, so in addition to wiring it up to power, ground, and the servos the pitch servo has an output to the pitch trim actuator There are a couple of different ways for this to interact with the pilot, either you can install a dual pole dual throw switch to select […]