Recent content by Bill Putney

It's too bad they haven't picked up the PS Engineering remote audio panel that is made for Advanced.

Something I don't think has been touched on is that, presuming you are paying for insurance, if the aircraft isn't "Airworthy" in the legal sense (specifically "...meets it type design or as properly altered...") most insurance is void. My guess is that the airplanes you've been flying for the...

Too bad the FAA didn’t think ahead and include a satellite broadcast ADS-B out in NextGen. But that would have competed with XM.

I’m more curious about power than some people. I have 2 Shunts. One is wired between the alternator “B” Terminal and the main electrical bus. That one reads the “Load” on the alternator. The second one is between the main electrical bus and the master relay. That one reads “Charge and Discharge”...

It occurs to me that granting an ODA “…to benefit the FAA” may be read as “…we can reduce staff and save some money.” Granting an ODA to Garmin, S-Tec and Honeywell might mean there is less FAA staff to process things for others. ODA sounds like a great idea, except when it becomes a way of...

Looking back through the thread, I see that the topic of ODA has been raised previously. Pardon the duplication.

One of the interesting things I’ve recently discovered is that Garmin has “Organization Designation Authorization.“ It’s a pretty interesting program. It bestows far broader authority to act on behalf of the FAA than other designees like DERs and DARs have. I’m sure they are supervised in some...

I have an SV-2020 GPS connected to serial 5. I also have an IFD 440 connected via an SV-ARINC-429. I presume that the GPS info is available via the ARINC data stream. If the SV-2020 fails, is the HDX clever enough to switch to the GPS data from the ARINC stream? If so, will it forward that info...

I’m working as an inspector now at a relatively large Part 145 repair station. We mostly work on turbine engine stuff. King Airs, Cessna Jets and Pilatus PC-12s. A lot of that stuff has or is converting to Garmin because it’s all integrated with the aircraft systems. Garmin provides all the 337...

Brent, I think anyone who spends much time on these forums is gong to see a lot of "I wish Dynon would..." stuff. Most of it (IMHO) is like the view of the progress of a favored child. It's hard to see the child struggling, for whatever reason, and not say anything. And, like a favored child...

I looked at the install manual and it only shows pins 1 & 3 used on the DB24 for power and ground. Physically there is one little notch to file at the bottom of the 3-1/8" hole in the panel to accommodate a lock of some sort. There is a bracket that goes behind the panel and picks up the...

The shunt mounting fasteners should be slightly smaller than the mounting holes in the shunt allow, so that any flexing of the airframe its attached to isn't trying to snap off the shunt mounting ears. Next size down screws with some heat shrink tubing to center the screws and nylon washers...

I asked a similar question. I was hoping that the "Confidence" range was pretty narrow. I'd like to have an AP disconnect on each yoke with confidence checking for both. If the range was pretty narrow, each button could have a 10K resistor and if both were paralleled the resistance presented to...

I built a junction board that ties all the connections together that Dynon recommends are commoned between two displays. There's more than just serial ports. I have seen the back of the Dynon demo systems that they take to trade shows and it has something very similar. I thought maybe Dynon was...

Then if they'd make one with no front panel... But, I bet that's in the works.