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Did you end up in Schenectady?

Yes, via the Wifi dongle. Do it all the time.

The chronosyclastic infundibulum inverts and you end up in Schenectady.

Interesting that you can do that, but since the plate doesn't get any bigger when you do, what's the purpose in eliminating the other useful information on the screen (PFD, Map)?

Nope. I only use it as a switch for the landing gear circuitry. But the Skyview can (if configured) now display AGL in the map INFO items, if you want it. Still doesn't output it into the serial stream, though, for unknown reasons. I don't know if the Skyview AGL display would be (or is)...

It depends on the rest of the electrical system of your plane, and how you have everything grounded. If you just have ground wires attached to the AL structure of the plane, you may induce ground loops. If you have all your grounds going to one particular ground bus, that's less likely. If you...

What the OP is calling a "missed approach" switch is normally referred to as a TOGA (Take-Off and Go-Around) switch. This is usually a momentary double pole switch that has two purposes - it grounds a line to the IFR Navigator (in my case, a Garmin GPS-175) and it grounds a line to the Skyview...

Not just "frowned upon". No solid wire allowed per good manufacturing practices. AC 43.13-1B, Chapter 11, page 11-21, section 11-66(a) is clear that no wire with less than 19 strands shall be used. 1 < 19, last I checked. Not regulatory, but...

Well, there goes that possibility - as you say, if two units have the same behavior, it's not the head. Which then sends us back to some sort of wiring issue. Can you somehow swap in some OTHER 12V DC motor (some sort of actuator that pulls < 2A), to see if THAT changes the behavior? If it...

So one difference between "trim connected" and "trim not connected" is that when the motor is not connected to the two wires to the A/P head, they are just dangling, and the two pins on the A/P head are effectively not connected to anything. However, when the trim motor is connected (even when...

Why not just trim manually with the AP engaged, rather than disengage it?

Last response on this topic, because you seem to have already decided that wiring can't be the problem, no matter what the symptoms show, but I'd bet that the issue here is a bad connection in the Skyview network wiring. MOVING the A/P head back and forth causes a disconnect - it's not EMI/RFI...

Charlie, if physically moving the A/P panel causes it to go offline, that's pretty good indication that some connection somewhere is suspect. That doesn't seem to have anything to do with the pitch trim system. Probably/possibly the Skyview network connections.

I have a "Strong" Pitch trim system in my COZY MKIV. It does NOT draw more than 2A (hence the callout for a 2A breaker in the wiring). I do not have a "TRIMAMP", nor do I need one. If you're using a 2A CB and it doesn't pop when you run your trim, then YOUR trim motor isn't drawing more than 2A...

This is correct - no converter is necessary to use capacitance senders with the Dynon EMS unit. Just follow the manual's instructions for capacitance senders.

I don't know what installation manual you're looking at (GPS175 or HDX) because 5-2 of the HDX manual refers to something else entirely, and there is no 5-2 in the GPS175 install manual. But in any case, the GPS175 manual, on page 86 and 88, Figures B-1 and B-2 in Appendix B, clearly show that...

Since an RNAV GPS approach is not dependent on any ground based equipment, it certainly wasn't the airport's issue. You don't state what GPS navigator was driving the VNAV (or HNAV), but the problem could be in one of three places - the GPS navigator, the Skyview connection to the navigator, or...

Fascinating. I have an HDX, and was using the HDX Pilot's Guide. Per my second bullet point of the first posting, the "Extended Runway Centerlines" section on page 5-48 says: When the Flight Plan origin, a waypoint, or the destination is an airport, an extended runway line is shown on the map...

Thank you very much - is that in the PIlot Guide somewhere that I missed? Is there some way go to a runway without doing a "direct" - IOW, in a flight plan?

This has been discussed at l east once before, but no answer was directly forthcoming. Using ONLY the Skyview (no external navigator), one can program VNAV in the MENU > MAP SETUP > VS REQ'D menu in two ways - one, to arrive at the final waypoint at a certain altitude above the waypoint at a...