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I was not criticizing Dynon here.  The technological limitations of ADS-B have been in my crosshairs for years.  I hope pilots are not depending on traffic information to replace see and avoid, which is how this discussion started. I have used passive traffic monitors since 2005 and I have...

Only if they can see you AND the traffic. If you or your traffic is in the radar shadow of nearby terrain, you may be on your own. If the nearby traffic is pinging 1090 ES, a passive monitor or a 1090 ES receiver will pick it up. Overhead airliners TCAS can also excite Mode A/C when ground...

ADSB traffic is NOT sufficient for anti-collision functions. Even the superior Stratus implementation cannot detect mode-a or mode-c traffic. The Stratus FAQ says "Remember, ADS-B traffic, even at its best, is not a complete picture of nearby traffic and is not a substitute for looking out the...

There is a lack of integration between flight planning platforms. Even Pocket FMS with the EASY VFR app can't export flight plans from an iPad to a SkyView system in the field. Once you leave home, you need to manually re-enter into the SkyView... Even though it uses the PFMS database. This...

I have an update on the SkyView compatible auto trim controller. Flight testing is complete and we will be rolling out production devices very soon. One thing I did was add a tuning interface. This allows external tweaking of performance using a PC serial port, or if my friends at Dynon are...

I have photoshopped an example of what I am talking about with the subdued colors except for alarmed states.  Rather than eye cacaphony, I eliminate useless colors in the MAP and RPM indicators and subdued the colors in non-alarmed indicators.  Only alarmed indicators are full brightness...

Sounds like your ammeter shunt is in series with the battery and indicates whether current is flowing into (charging) the battery or out of (discharging) the battery. Normally, when done this way, a positive current is charging current and a negative current is discharging, so your shunt sensor...

I went flying today and the fault still displayed at power-up. Cleared itself right away after engine start, consistent with a loose connection somewhere. Thanks, Vern

Take two SV displays, installed normally and configured in an aircraft. Call them A and B. Now, determine a new K factor for fuel flow. Power up A and try to change the K factor. As soon as you get to the calibration field on the menu selection, the device will reboot. Happens every time...

There is a hub for this.  The AXIS-25A from makerplane.org Vern

Help me out here, what does EGT#5 have wrong with it? Vern

I repectfully disagree. When you have no datalink, you are blind to transponder based traffic. Passive transponder traffic monitors will indicate traffic in remote congested (mountain valley) areas that are sending 1090 ES pings or (sometimes) mode c being excited by TCAS interrogations. UATs...

My comment was not about external traffic monitors per se. It was about the dangers of depending on ADS-B traffic information in a heterogenous environment. A proper (safe) ADS-B -IN device should detect ground-based traffic uplinks plus transmissions from nearby aircraft on both UAT and...

You're turning it up to 11 already? Seriously, a quick boot up will be greatly appreciated. More like the D10A would be nice. Vern

The AoA indicator-not sure, the open source Stick Shaker will be replacing this function and will be online soon.  The open source Trim controller is here: http://store.makerplane.org/m-pwr-2-dual-channel-variable-speed-trim-control-kit/. All of these designs are open-source hardware, so you...

Yeah, this is crazy but hear me out. I've developed multiple devices that sniff the serial datastream from a SkyView system. Specifically an external AoA indicator, a Stick Shaker a speed-scheduling dual trim controller and, most recently, an auto-trim controller. Some of these devices can be...

My MAP Is off by 0.2 inHg as checked at 0 MSL. While this is not a significant error, I would like to be able to adjust it so that power calculations are more accurate. What can be done? Thanks, Vern

I have completed the design of an auto-trim capable 2-axis servo controller, based on the M-PWR-2A from MakerPlane http://store.makerplane.org/m-pwr-2-dual-channel-variable-speed-trim-control/, my business partner. The controller is now in flight testing, and it is available to other Beta...

When the video capability is released, I hope that you will support a one button push to select between syn vis and camera view.  Even supporting an external contact input would be useful. Better yet, for those of us with tail draggers and long noses, it would be beneficial if we could define...

I know that the A/P control head can provide autotrim, but there a lot of aircraft that don't or can't use it. It would be really useful to provide a control field in the Adahrs seral output that would provide a message for an external trim controller, such as the M-PWR-2A that I developed for...