Our new Trio Pro autopilot (with ‘auto-trim’) has arrived! Getting the head unit in was pretty straight-forward, we’d already planned for it, just zip the 3 1/8″ hole open, and bolt her in. We’ll get to the servos down the road here. Trio Pro Autopilot Autopilot installed
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Alright, things are really starting to move now. The new dual AHRS, dual screen (with weather!) Grand Rapids Horizon units and the backup ASI and altimeter have arrived. Things are getting interesting now. We hope to have the fuselage painted and the new instruments in yet this month. And we hope to get Dave to […]
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Well, last week I took the remaining dregs of the Blue Mountain EFIS out of the plane, and finallized the EIS wiring. I’ve made an aluminum template for the new GRT Horizon HX system, as well as the 2 1/4″ backup gauges that I’m going to install (airspeed and altimeter for now – and YES […]
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We originally installed a GRT Sport to be a backup ot the Blue Mountain system. More recently we upgraded to a GRT Horizon HX dual-AHRS dual-screen primary system to replace the BMA, and traded the sport in. Here I’m installing the new GRT Sport EFIS as our backup/secondary display unit. My buddy Carlos works at […]
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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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This is the new compass location on the overhead switch panel, which alleviated the issue were were getting with interference and the compass not reading properly. Overhead mount Much better For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad […]
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