Recent content by airguy

Is the sensor located on the engine or on the firewall? If on the engine itself, you can be seeing the result of a poor engine ground to the airframe - and the heavy starter current is looking for a path to ground through the pressure sensor line.

A skill that, sadly, is largely lost in todays pilots.

I'm not an aerobatic performer - but I would think heading would be a crucial piece for proper performance of certain maneuvers - like maintaining alignment parallel to (and outside of) the crowdline, executing a roll or series of rolls without changing heading etc.

GPS positioning for heading disregards wind direction - which is needed to drive heading versus track, and to show HITS.

You are correct on the georeferenced plate, it will display the plate on the screen and you can hand fly that, or autopilot through the GPS points that you will have to program in, and fly the "step-down" altitudes using the AP vertical descent commands. There will be no VNAV in the...

RTFM (or lack thereof) strikes again.

Make sure the roll servo bridle cable clamps are torqued correctly - the torque specs have been changed from the original documentation. I had "another" shop do the install on mine, and they hosed it up.

So, what exactly do you intend to use to maintain navigational orientation? If you don't intend to actually use the display you are putting in the airplane, then why are you putting it in?

Pull the user data from the Skyview and look at the data in Excel. One of the columns of that data is for Autopilot Disconnect, look for the time/date stamp and that value to go positive - that tells you that the system is seeing the disconnect line being connected to ground. If that was...

Servos unavailable could be a power issue, check power and ground.

Please be very specific here - NO VOLTAGE shown, or it gave you an error saying the voltage didn't change enough to be usable? Two very different scenarios.

When something goes wrong with Skyview your FIRST reaction, always, in all cases, should be to download the diagnostic file. It takes about 5 minutes and costs you nothing but the time to do so. 9 times out of 10, sending that file to Dynon will get you an explanation of exactly what failed and...

For what it's worth, I keep my servo torque set at 100%. The whirring or buzzing noise you refer to is the servo stepper motor holding position and is normal. If you had your ear right next to the servo in flight you would hear it then too - but there is too much ambient noise.

And you definitely want to use that option to make sure they are the same source, or things get very confusing.

The ADSB signal is transmitted through multiple miles of air - a layer of fiberglass is not going to matter. EDIT - fiberglass is not going to matter - unless you have it covered with a metallic-pigment paint.