On the last trip to Kalamazoo our GRT HX system began acting up. Elizabeth is starting to have flashbacks to flying with the Blue Mountain EFIS, which is not a good thing. To be fair, I’m not convinced it’s their fault yet, but it’s disconcerting when your display goes blank in flight. I’m feeling better […]
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I recently realized that I had short-shifted the installation of my VP-X electronic circuit breaker system in my previous posts about my winter panel upgrade. I’ll try to correct that here. As a reminder, I chose to replace my original circuit breaker installation because it brought a bunch of wires into my cabin and made […]
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As you can see, we reverted back to the factory pitch trim system after having a couple of issues with the Strong pitch trim. We had a couple of instances where it simply locked on overtorque, and now there is a motor retention AD out on them. It would probably work, but we made the […]
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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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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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We’ve purchased the dual axis digital autopilot from Blue Mountain. This is a really cool system, in that it can not only hold a course and altitude, it can climb to an altitude, or at a prescribed rate, or follow a flight plan that you enter into the EFIS. This is a very interesting system, in […]
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