Recent content by airguy

You've clearly got some excess RF running around in your plane from the COM transmitter - that indicates a high VSWR which could be a result of an antenna problem (usually bad grounding) or a bad coax cable "leaking" RF. If you can't resolve your issue with the USB cable routing, start looking...

Not a user of the Jepp charts, but I know that Dynon only looks for the .DUP files in the root directory of the drive - you're correct about that - it does not look into any of the subdirectories. You might try deleting the Classic folder and moving ALL the files from the HDX folder into the...

That's something that has been requested in the past, but never developed to my knowledge. It sure would be handy for a flap-speed warning, both high and low.

Your AP panel is loaded with 17.6.0 software - update the rest of the system to that and you'll be fine.

Heat is the enemy of these drives - I quit using the low-profile units a while back because they cannot dissipate the heat they generate when the databases up being updated on your laptop, and it plays hell with the chip inside the stick. I went back to the full size sticks and the problem...

The instructions for the installation of the diode clearly call out the purpose and reason for the reverse installation, AND specifically calls the "band" to be connected to positive - no confusion there. What did cause some confusion to me was your use "close the switch to cut the motor...

Until you operate them incorrectly enough that they (briefly) become a smoke machine.

I would say that's an accurate assessment at this time, yes.

Since the US has about 85% of all aircraft in the world, it seems likely that we will eventually prevail on the standard. How LONG that takes is anyones guess. We did let the French take over all the aviation record keeping, for whatever reason... :rolleyes:

As Rhino said - most of us are taught in school that charge carriers are negative, and current flows from negative to positive. Today there is evidence otherwise, that charge carriers are "holes" that electrons flow into and the holes migrate toward positive just as the electrons go the other...

Yeah, I get that a lot too - back in the early 90's I started a high pressure air services company - nobody could pronounce my last name, and they just started calling me "The Air Guy" and it kinda stuck. Everyone now assumes I'm pretentious about flying airplanes and chose it for that. Whatever.

You're right - there is something here - and I have an inkling of whats going on, working with Dynon tech to flesh it out. I've confirmed that Dynon does grab the time signal from the satellites - but apparently does not immediately update the system clock to that time, but rather slowly...

I'll have to check on mine, I never noticed it. I have two airplanes currently running both Dynon and IFD440 (one certified and one experimental), so I should be able to get two datapoints on this.

Fixed pitch prop? A fixed pitch prop will windmill considerably faster in idle-power glide than it will on the ground. Go fly again, note the rpm displayed during the idle-power descent to the runway, then as you land look at it again and as you slow down on the runway again, and then stop and...

If you've got two Dynon screens, then they should agree to the second - because they use the same GPS time hack. Cell companies set their local time based on where your phone is physically located (pinging the local towers) but their time feed is not guaranteed accurate to the GPS or any other...