Yet another change. The magnetometer is moving again, it started on top of the landing light, but the light had a steel back-shell. Then it went onto the top of the canard, but the offset torque tube and the EFIS display case are steel, so it had to move. I decided to put it in […]
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Yet another change. After mounting the EFIS screen on the copilot side, it became obvious that the radios were going to interfere with the screen. We’ve decided to change the layout yet again, swapping the EFIS/Lite for the larger and more capable EFIS/Sport from Blue Mountain, and placing this on the copilot side of the […]
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We started out by mounting a wet (“whiskey” style) compass on the glareshield. We found out, however, that it was getting interference from somewhere and moved it to the overhead switch panel. Compass installed For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna […]
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The EFIS/One is Delivered! This is the first bench test of the EFIS/One, since we don’t have the screens yet (backordered) I’m using a flat panel LCD monitor that I have to test with. Here you can clearly see our “Canard” airplane icon on the moving map, and I68, our home airport just off to […]
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The first thing we did in the avionics section was to install the headset and microphone jacks in the keel for all four passengers. Since I’ll be flying with Bose headsets, and will be including a four place intercom with music and DVD entertainment for the rear seat passengers, I installed stereo headset jacks (be […]
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Not yet complete, though here’s the preliminary layout. Also, here’s a picture of us fitting the panel and glare shield with some cut-outs of some of our instruments on the panel. One of the first things that we needed to do on the instrument panel was to create permanently mounted panel sections on both ends of […]
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