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 […]
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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 […]
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So, we’ve had this low level switch function in our sump tank for awhile. And it’s always sucked. We started out with the factory’s standard float switch wired to a lamp in the panel, but it would nuisance alarm at altitude and at high power/high angle of attack. I bought a VP03E to alleviate these problems, since […]
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The latest Kitplanes had an article by Stein about this nylon tubing and connector system that he’s been using. I really liked the look of it, and wasn’t totally happy with all of the different tubing systems that I’d been using. So I decided to switch to it. A nice side benefit is all of the pitot tubing is […]
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We’ve bonded the aluminum support brace into the panel and opened up the cutouts for the instruments we have. We’ll buy a backup electric attitude indicator for the middle of the 2 1/4″ gauges, and put a 3 1/8″ Trio autopilot on the bottom right, probably during Oshkosh (pictures to come when I get home […]
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Thanks Ronnie, for pointing out that I hadn’t updated this page in awhile. We’ve decided not to go with the Sierra system because, well, it’s expensive. Also, the Vision system was redundant and not very compatible with other systems. So, we’ve decided to go with the Blue Mountain EFIS/One as the Primary system, and the […]
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