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On the subject of calibrating the fuel senders: There's a situation that's not addressed well in the installation manual. When I calibrated my Princeton capacitive senders in my left tank the first time, I simply poured in a 5 gallon increment and promptly hit save, and went on to the next 5...

What Marc states is correct, and it goes a lot farther. One specific TAS + one specific bank angle = one specific turn radius, which produces a specific rate of turn. Size and weight of the aircraft does not matter, be it a 747, 757, King Air, Bonanza, or Cozy. Ken

Hi Alex- Avidyne does not put their installation manuals on line, at least for the general public. If you contact their support folks by email or phone and identify yourself as a homebuilder, they will send you one for free via email PDF. The manuals are very thorough, with wiring diagrams for...

To expand on the above, assuming the 650 operates like the IFD440/540: Your SV HSI select window cycles thru whatever signals are available to it. With no additional nav units added, the choices will simply be 'none' = no CDI and 'SkyView' = the CDI is driven by the SV flight plan. If you...

Hi Marc- As to whether or not it was taught just might be an indicator of where the CFII received his initial IFR training, civilian or military. The AIM and the various handbooks published by the FAA all explicitly require the tune and identify portion. Not far from those requirements are...

Correct up until the last part of the last sentence. Remember, whenever SCAN is *ON*, there is no way to continually Monitor the ID of the radio nav aid in use, neither the primary nor the secondary. In the real world I suspect many folks would do pretty much what you propose and ignore the...

Actually…. The IFD 440 does annunciate approaching a waypoint in a flight plan. It is visual, not aural. It is in the form of a blue alert message in the lower right portion of the screen. From page 6-16 in the IFD400 Series Pilot Guide: I don't speak Garmin 430W so cannot say if it does...

Been there, done that, re using UHF frequency hopping. 'Nuff said :cool:. Re your scan all question: Not precisely. In NAV ALL mode, both the primary and secondary frequencies are displayed, w/ primary top & secondary bottom. There are 2 sub-modes in NAV ALL. In the SCAN ALL sub-mode of...

The NAVALL mode you have shown displays the Vega in SCAN mode. I've not had the opportunity to test this mode with VOR as the primary frequency and an ILS in the secondary frequency, but I have played with two VOR frequencies. The depicted radial for the primary frequency on the N16 can be...

One major difference: the SV-GPS-2020 (or-250) will continue to provide needed GPS data to SkyView with an airplane total electrical failure that makes SV operate from its backup battery.

As mentioned in another thread, I've been using compact USB 3.0 Samsung 128 GB drives with good results. I formatted them FAT 32 using a free 3rd party utility, MiniTool Partition Wizard Free. I've not upgraded to 16.anything yet. Still waiting for "Version 16.2 is due to release in the...

A much simpler solution to your attitude worries: Move your knob panel to beneath your left screen. Move your autopilot panel to the hole left by knob panel. Mount a Garmin G5 to the left of your left screen. Under $1500 including a 4 hour backup battery. No network vulnerabilities.

I read it the same way.

The 'yes' option becomes useful when you install an IFR navigator. After the install, the situation exists that one flight plan can be loaded in SkyView while a different one can be loaded in your IFR GPS. I believe toggling to yes ensures that the flight plan you choose to display on your map...

The larger Razor head can indeed be set up to be a NAVCOM head, provided you have both a V16 and an N16 installed. It can also be set up to tune just a NAV or just a COM. The Vega head is smaller. It has the capability to be set up as either a COM head or a NAV head during initial setup, but...

No argument. I've got the SV-COM-X25 as com 1 to take advantage of all the SV data base capabilities, and the IFD540 also provides both VHF com and nav with access to the IFD data base frequencies. I can certainly see the advantage of a complete nav-com taking just one serial input for some...

Clip from a Seattle Avionics email newsletter yesterday:

I have an N16 installed as backup to my Avidyne IFD540. It does indeed allow both glide slope and localizer to be viewed on SkyView's HSI. I've even flown coupled ILS approaches with the N16 as the nav source and it works just fine. The downside of the N16 - or for that matter any 3rd party...

I guess I'm also one of the lucky ones with no problems for the past 3 years. Yes, the program is clunky and slow, but it chugs away and eventually gets the job done. I do not run it in the background; I run it live with no other programs on line due to bandwidth issues. Some data points: I...

You will find guidance in the installation manual. Specifically, chapter 4, starting on page 4-33. The SkyView audio outputs are essentially alarms and the manual recommends that you feed them to an unmuted input to an audio panel.