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I will respectfully disagree. If one installs an ammeter shunt in the appropriate place (to measure current in and out of the battery), one can get a real-time measure of the battery health. There are three ways of installing the ammeter shunt: Alternator Output Bus Load Battery In/Out I will...

Ray Allen servos don't pull enough current to require the TirmAmp. Check the installation manual for current draw capability, and Ray Allen's manual for current draw.

No, you are not correct. The Bendix, Airflow Performance, and Precision Airmotive mechanical fuel injection systems all have a distribution block, downstream of the servo (look for where the output hose of the servo goes) with (for an O-360) four stainless steel lines that go to fittings just...

Looks more like an FM-200 Airflow Performance Fuel Injection Servo. Just removed one from my engine for an SDS EI/EFII system. Injected. The only difference is the pressure range of the fuel pressure sender - everything else is identical. The FI systems use a higher pressure than the carbureted...

Garmin's G3X has the ability to receive Sirius XM weather through either the GDL-51R or GDL-52R modules. Some incentive for Dynon (although that never actually seems to incentivize them - I've been trying to get them to spit out AGL in their datastream and output data for years now (which Garmin...

This. The ADAHRS must be level. And the rest of the comment from @GKC Aviation

I think you meant the ADAHRS - the magnetometer has nothing to do with wing level display.

No. All the Garmin can do is feed the HSI/CDI and flight plan (and approaches, etc.). But it gives no map information to the Skyview, either VFR or IFR. You can't display Sectionals, IFR Low/High charts, or approach plates on the Dynon. You have to be able to display approach plates somewhere...

Well, there you go. I'm full of crap, apparently. I'll have to look into getting a GAD29, I guess...

Well, maybe I'm full of crap. After I get my engine installed and do a few approaches for practice, I'll know whether I'm blowing smoke or not. I THOUGHT that it worked with just the serial connection...

Depends how it's implemented...

I have dual HDX screens with a G5 as the third EFIS backup, and I have a Garmin 175 as the navigator. The Skyview is fed through the ARINC 429 adapter, but the G5 is fed from a serial line out of the 175 to a serial line into the G5, per the G5 installation manual. I don't have a GAD29. The G5...

I wouldn't. You need to be able to easily remove the SV from the panel for maintenance, and you can't do that without disconnecting the cable attachments. Also, double stick tape tie wrap holders are guaranteed to fall off when it gets hot - leave your plane out in the sun in the summer for a...

How do you trim the plane manually? Trim tabs are hardly the only way to trim a plane. There are trim springs, movement of the whole elevator, and probably others. So whatever you do to trim the plane manually can be done electrically with an actuator, and the Dynon A/P head can control that...

I haven't been paying extremely close attention to all the failures you've had here, and you've stated that you've now replaced the screens and the A/P controller, and have rung out all the wiring. What I don't recall hearing about is the A/P servos. They're smart and have electronics in them...

Are you talking about using VNAV purely from the Skyview, approaching an airport or runway, or are you talking about using VNAV as driven from an IFR navigator of some type?

That would be easy enough to implement with an air pressure switch - I use two of them in my nose gear auto-extend circuit.

If I understand the failure modes correctly, if you bypass the AP panel, the trim still works manually. Why not just jumper the Skyview network cables around the AP panel, taking it completely out of the network, and just manually trim? Then you can at least use the plane while they figure out...

I don't find it onerous at all. While any small screen keyboard is somewhat problematic, "awful" is not the word I'd use. It's completely usable. Obviously, YMMV, but that's my experience after using it for 2 years. And not for nothing, but you can change your flight plan on Foreflight and...

Did you end up in Schenectady?