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Personally, using the Aeroelectric Connection's Z-14 diagram as a basis for my electrical system, I measure two voltages for pins 1 and 2 at the positive terminal of each of the two batteries. I figure that the voltage I care about is what the battery is doing (or being charged with). Some might...

And just as an incentive to catch up with a competitor, the Garmin G3X system outputs both of these in its serial stream. GPS Data Message field 34, and GPS AGL Data Message field 11. Do them one better and output AGL in 10 ft. increments, rather than 100 ft. increments.

In chapter 25 of the installation manual, the serial port output format is indicated. In the ADAHRS, fields 28 and 60 output Pressure Altitude and Density Altitude, respectively. I request that GPS Altitude and AGL also be two of the output fields. We know that the Skyview system KNOWS both GPS...

I looked through a copy of the IFD-440 install manual and could find nothing about talking to an EFIS over a serial line with SL-30 protocol. Doesn't mean it isn't there - just that I couldn't find it.

I didn't blow off the NTSB report, and I'm perfectly willing to admit and accept that the pilots in the Colgan air disaster made numerous mistakes. Obviously, they could have reacted far better and saved the plane and the people in it. My point, which apparently I did not make clearly enough...

It's good that you guys are able to argue the merits of the case, presenting facts and data, rather than just using ad-hominem attacks.

Again, pretty harsh. They screwed up, obviously, but maybe with an earlier warning that something was going on, they wouldn't have had to react in an emergency situation, but in an earlier, developing situation. Isn't this an argument for NOT having the system wait until they're actually...

In your opinion. You're welcome to disagree, but I don't see how you can just declare my opinion "invalid". I agree that autotrim is nice. But I spend about 0.001% of my flight time adjusting trim when flying IFR/IMC (or VFR/VMC, for that matter). I trim for climb, then trim for cruise, then...

FIKI or not, people occasionally encounter ice when in IMC. Better to know there's something going on than not know, is my point. And E-AB aircraft, which is (at least so far) the majority of Dynon installs, there's no such thing as STC'd or not - people just do what they do...

I've got a different take on the Autotrim capabilities found in most EFIS's, and here's what I generally say to my customers when they ask about it. If you're flying VFR only, Autotrim is great - takes a small load off the pilot and makes sure the plane is trimmed so that when you turn off the...

DBRV10 spoke to this issue, but I'll discuss all three possible shunt locations, and why (IMO) "A" is the best choice. "C" tells you what the aircraft load is - that's essentially what the VP-X does, if you have one, and the VP-X also gives you individual current draws. If you don't have a...

Sounds like the problem is in the VP-X, not in the pitot heat. If it draws 8.7A but the VP-X pops even though it's on a 10A circuit, how can that be anything other than the VP-X's issue?

A month or two ago I reported a similar bug with the DEST WPT field with respect to switching between the Skyview and (in my case, a GPS-175) external navigator. The response from Dynon was "huh - that's interesting".

Do you have an audio panel for COM? What are the two radios hooked up to? The Dynon by itself cannot "switch COM radios". Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question...

Yes, for VOR/ILS/LOC approaches and en-route navigation. Sometimes it seems to be hard to get MFG's to say that, but there's no reason that it wouldn't be, assuming you're using the SV as the CDI.

Works for me. If there is, I haven't found it in the ADS-B world.

Yep.

One assumes that there is "something" going on. What is unknown is what that "something" is :-). If you (or anyone else) has any ideas, I'm all ears. As I said, installed per plans and instructions; both Dynon and Garmin; installed by me and others. The cals don't fail - the magnetometers just...

I wish that were true. I've never had good experience with either Dynon or Garmin's magnetometers from an accuracy standpoint, for either me or my customers. They either drift over time, or have errors in one direction and opposite errors in the other direction. This, after the ground cal and...

You're misunderstanding what I'm describing. I'm not trying to use both systems "at the same time", which isn't possible. I'm indicating when the DEST waypoint shows up, and when it doesn't, and when the VSR works, and when it doesn't. When I ONLY use the GSP-175 as the Flight Plan Source...