We’ve purchased a nice chrome heated pitot tube from Spruce. We’ve elected to go this route as we hope to fly the plane in instrument conditions, which might include brief periods in icing conditions. While the plane is not equipped with deicing equipment, we need to maintain the flight instruments if we encounter ice and […]
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Rather than go with the factory’s rather ingenious static system, whereby they embed some AL tubing in between the fuselage skins and then drill small holes in them, we decided to go with production units. We did this for a couple of reasons. Firstly, many pilots were mentioning that they had to install a “trip […]
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Here’s my current thinking about what our panel will look like. It’s still a bit rough, but you can see that we plan on going with the Sierra Flight Systems all glass EFIS-2000 hardware (check them out from our Links page). This is backed up by vacuum 2.25″ standard flight instruments. We’ve placed an all […]
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