GTN-650 Installation Notes

I posted awhile back about the installation of my GTN650. We’ve been using it as a GPS source for some time now, but as I get ready to start my IFR training in earnest I need to be able to use the VOR/LOC/ILS features. Well, I hadn’t check those, and hadn’t spent much time learning […]

Approach Fast Stack Cabling

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Avionics Fan

This is actually the second avionics fan I’ve installed, the first was on the cold side of the firewall to blow fresh air into the LightSpeed Plasma III ignition modules, which suffer when allowed to get to hot. I didn’t document that well, but one of the several upgrades that I sent my Plasma III […]

Updated Schematics

Collection of current wiring diagrams (more or less)… not really of interest to anyone but me, probably, but there in one place now… The VP-X manages most of the electrical loads, I have direct to breakers for the ignition (didn’t want to trust that to software) and the alternators (they need “real” breakers to trip […]

SkyRadar Update

We have good ADS-B coverage locally these days, and I’m regularly pulling up the winds reported at my destinations via the GRT’s DETAILS page, and getting lots of traffic (part of that is because I have the GTX330ES doing the “activation” of nearby transponders), but I’m also seeing myself. Turns out I need to tell […]

Installing the SkyRadar-D ADS-B

One of our purchases this year was the Radenna SkyRadar-D, for dual band. We already had the Garmin GTX330ES, the ES giving us ADS-B out capability and TIS in, but we had been using a WxWorx reciever for our weather information into the GRT EFIS. That worked really well, and actually has a bit better radar resolution (at least […]