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Get a PS Engineering audio panel. An intercom is no substitute for a real audio panel.

The new manual says that if you hold the right knob down for 2 seconds and you are less than 300 feet above the airport, the taxi diagram will come up. I have not had a chance to try that yet.

I would really like to have ADSB traffic display on an instrument approach chart from Seattle Avionics. I have no idea how complicated it might to have the ADSB traffic display on the charts.

I would like to see the lean tool come on at startup. I don’t see any advantage to having it off. If there is some advantage to having it off, please let me know what it is.

The backup battery will stay charged up in normal use if it is still serviceable. If you are getting backup battery alerts, perhaps the battery has gone bad. Have you run the test to see if it will pass?

Thanks for that. I must have put something in that field 5 years ago. I will look and see what is there.

Great explanation. I have no idea what rpm will give me an hour of tach time for an hour of run time on my Dynon system. It must be somewhere between 2,300 and 2,500 rpm. I have never seen anywhere to change the value in the software settings.

The Dynon screen you have has 2, 9pin network connections on it. If you run out of network connections, you just put in a 5 port hub. I have 2 of them in my RV10 because I have just about everything Dynon sells in it. I have one open port left. Some components like the ADAHARS only have one port...

Well I have had people that know a lot more about electronics than I do call it a canbus. Apparently they are mistaken. Anyway, the vast majority of communications between Dynon devices happen on that network. The Cat 5 cable does almost nothing. It only allows you to do database updates to all...

Then what would call the network cable that carries the vast majority of the data from one device to another?

Hobbs starts recording when you have oil pressure. It records all the time above a the threshold to turn on the switch. Tach time depends on engine rpm. Tach time is recorded more slowly at low rpm. It has nothing to do with clock time.

The push buttons do wear out after a while. I have seen one screen that they did not all work correctly when it was delivered.

Well besides the physical installation, you will need ground, power and circuit protection. Most of the data that comes into it comes in on the can bus, the 9 pin network connectors. Each device has 2 ports so they can be daisy chained together. However there are a few things that have to be...

The problem with automotive alternators is the built in regulator. They won’t take the higher temperatures under the cowl generated by air cooled engines. A friend of mine uses a Toyota alternator in his RV6, but he removed the regular from it and installed an external regulator behind the...

What kind of alternator? Some of them have a bad reputation for failing early. The B&C are a little more, but they last to TBO and will go another TBO with an overhaul. If it is a Plane-power I am not surprised at the failure. You want top quality accessories if you don’t want the aircraft to...

You identify it during setup. On my RV10 I replaced the tiller arm with a capstan drive. That gave it more torque. The ADAHARS drives it. It is very sensitive and locks the ball in the cage during turbulence and climbs and descents. I love it.

If you can see the traffic on your moving map on the Dynon, why is it important to see it on the 440? I suppose it would be nice if every manufacturers products communicated with everyone else’s, but I doubt that will ever happen. Garmin in particular goes out of their way to make sure that...

There are owner operators that are far more qualified to work on their aircraft than people with the certificates. Skill and knowledge don’t always go with the license. There are lots of A&P’s that I would not let touch my aircraft.

I am not aware of a yaw damper available for TruTrack auto pilots. The Dynon autopilot is built into their EFIS. The servos are hooked up to the network so the autopilot can be controlled from any EFIS installed. I have 3 EFIS screens in my RV10 and they all can control the servos through the...

The navigation portion of the GTN650 interfaces with the Dynon through the ARINC429 module. The HSI can display DYNON NAV Garmin GPS NAV and Garmin VOR nav. To use vertical navigation on an ILS or GPS approach VNAV must be selected. You can’t select VNAV until the vertical guidance window next...