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We too have had the original EGT probes fail.  In our case (twice) it was an internal failure of the wire, caused by being required to bend 90 degrees after leaving the probe.  Additionally, because the wire core is very fine, it seems difficult for a crimp terminal to get a good grip on it.  I...

At the risk of going off topic, I have to speak in defence of the VP-X approach. It didn't take deep pockets, and it eliminated a lot of other complexity such as traditional circuit breakers and the wiring to and from.  The list of features gained is too long to mention here.  That includes, if...

If I may have a minor point of dissension here... I'd dearly love to have the autotrim function, but don't have the separate autopilot panel. We do, however, have a VP-X controlling the electrics, and it communicates beautifully with the Skyview.  This includes the ability to override any...

I thought I was pretty careful too, but it suckered me by behaving perfectly for more than a year.  It was a little easier to start tracing, given that the aileron servo was always OK, so the fault had to be downstream of where the wires tee off to both. Can't comment on that, sorry.  Our...

FWIW, I had this problem a while back.  The pitch servo would either display a fault on startup, or work for the entire flight.  Sometimes a reboot or network discovery would bring it back. Eventually the fault started appearing in flight, as an intermittent (and a maddening, repetitive audio...

They can pry my multi-cylinder EGT display from my cold dead hands!  :) While there are several ways to achieve a properly lean mixture (including AFR display or even a well-calibrated seat of the pants) there is only one way to show where the engine is on the HP / BSFC curve.  And there is...

This is the point I raised in the original post.  Yes, the % calc is accurate when ROP, which is probably where that's most important. The LOP % figure is also spot on, if a couple of assumptions are correct.  The main one is that the engine's SFC is at the usual number of 0.4 lb/hr/HP.  For...

Correct, some of the time! When ROP, the power developed is dependent on mass airflow, because by definition you have an excess of fuel.  So MAP and RPM determine % power. LOP, there's an excess of air, so the power depends just on how much fuel is supplied.  You can simply multipy the FF by a...

Hi all, So, why not cheekily make a feature request as my first post?  It goes like this: The % power display on our Skyview is astoundingly accurate, when compared with the formula that applies when LOP.  Specifically, that's (FF x 14.9 / Rated HP). There's only one problem with that in our...