Future Feature List

[dabear]

Looking through the list of posts over the past year, here is my request(s) for features not already released for the SkyView. Some are repeats and some are already on the list, but I wanted to raise them again. They are in order of "my" priority. ;D

1. Second EMS for 9Cyl Radial or multiple engines (Obviously this helps for those of us needing more CHT/EGT than the 14 provided.)

2. Weather input from other system or XM system directly

3. Single screen health check for full system (Check all screens, databases, configurations, etc. without having to go into setup mode)

4. Timers on PFD (count up, count down, or 1 min count down for holding and approaches)

5. Altitude Decent Warning (how about being able to set an altitude, or read from the approach chart, the altitude for the missed approach)

6. Check List (would be great to just use the SkyView as a check list tool and not have to carry the paper checklist since it gets in the way when upside down)

7. Weight and Balance (should have inputs for mutliple seats, rows, fuelf tanks, oil tanks, baggage etc.) I have great spreadsheet if that helps for coding.

8. Data Logging (engine and other data to use for long trips, maintenance, and for airshow information; eng temp, alittude high/low, etc)

9. Audio (for AOA and for other warning information)

10. Comm Radio ( I know, already on the list; but will the SkyView also act as an audio pannel?)

11. Flour Bombing Assistance (ok long shot I know, but how about being able to hit a target on the ground based on altitude, attitude, airspeed, and wind speed/direction?)

12. Auto-Throttles (ok, really really long shot and probably for SkyView version 12; but it could be done)

Thanks for listening

 

[dynonsupport]

Thanks for the suggestion. It's now added to our queue of suggested enhancements.

(We particularly enjoyed #11

 

[asaflyer]

Had a friend alledgedly nick a restricted area. Would be nice to have "bread crumbs" to prove a track....

 

[dynonsupport]

Had a friend alledgedly nick a restricted area. Would be nice to have "bread crumbs" to prove a track....

Thanks for the suggestion. It's now added to our queue of suggested enhancements.

 

[skysailor]

Had a friend alledgedly nick a restricted area. Would be nice to have "bread crumbs" to prove a track....

As a word of caution: The FAA determines your position based on radars that are not calibrated to ground points after initial installation. As such. They may show you inside airspace that differs from what your GPS or even visual checkpoints show. Their position is that it is your word against theirs and that they will win any enforcement action. Using a non certified GPS and EFIS to prove your position may not be enough to prevent the violation being assigned to you. This is from a controller and FAA legal. Even AOPA recommends you use a buffer of 3-5 miles to prevent this from occurring. Food for thought. Be careful out there!

 

[preid]

Re: Future Feature List- Bread crumbs

I really want VP integration!! With the bread crumbs there are other options, they may not always work, but APRS does a decent job of tracking (like flightaware) where the plane has been, gives family members a way to track you too. I think the 5 mile buffer is a much better solution if the map shows the restricted airspace to avoid. As a example a CAP pilot on a training mission with the airforce was busted for being in a restricted area for seconds, it went away as an incorrect claim but after numerous hours of reports and discussions, being 5 miles outside the area all together will avoid this time spent.
just a thought!

 

[rfazio1951]

My wish list for options available on the skyview would be simialr too what others have suggested. Some asked for a six pack of instruments but I think an easier and nicer one would be analog gauges for airspeed and altimeter on the sides, "should I say it? ala Tru Trak." You could also have the HSI the same 3D way. It would be nice to be able to select your "look".

 

[dynonsupport]

As we have explained before, the TruTrak presentation does not solve the issue that most people seem to have with digital tapes, as the TT presentation is just a rounded tape:

The half-round tapes aren't any different than normal tapes.

The needle doesn't move. The numbers do. So when you glance at them, the needle is ALWAYS in the middle, just like a tape. You have to look at the numbers around them to figure out what value you are at. Exactly like a tape.

The only way to do steam-gauge like presentations is if the whole range of a needle is on screen all the time and the needle moves. That takes a serious amount of space to do.

What people want is a big round gauge where the needle position inside the gauge gives you a relative idea of the airspeed against the min and max range of the gauge. Pretty much by definition, this requires a large dead area since it's the empty areas on the two sides of the needle that gives you a reference for the total range of the gauge.

 

[dabear]

I've got 1300+ hours flying behind round gauges and 60+ hours flying behind standard EFIS style panels (G1000, SkyView, Avidyne). Now that I've grown comfortable with the EFIS, I don't want round dials with moving needles. I'd rather have the tapes, but that is just my opinion.

That said, I'd be interested to know who has 50+ hours behind their SV, G1K, etc and wants the different type screen? I don't have a lot of time on the EFIS and would be interested in the reasons people have for wanting the electronic version of the round dials. Is it to make the transition easier or a more permanent solution?

 

[swatson999]

Simulator Simulator SIMULATOR.

Did I say that enough? SIMULATOR.

I think it's very important to learn to use new equipment such as this ON THE GROUND, and preferably sitting at a computer, not in the cockpit running the battery down, etc.

Look at the Garmin 430/530 simulator and training materials if you need guidance.

So although not a "feature", I consider this sort of tool extremely important, and it will boost the professionalism of the company if they provide it, as well. I know it's an additional software item to manage and maintain, but done right, you're really just running the same software on top of an RTOS emulator...

 

[mmarien]

... would be interested in the reasons people have for wanting the electronic version of the round dials ...

I think Dynon explained it well. A round gauge with a needle is a quick way to see the relative position on the gauge. For instance if your ASI is at nine o'clock on approach rather than 3 o'clock you know you're in trouble. In the same instance having a colour coded flat bar (or round gauge) like temperature or fuel makes it easy to determine if the gauge is in the "green" which is really all you care about.

I have about a hundred hours behind my SV and have no trouble reading the airspeed tape. The bug is a good way to maintain a speed as you don't need to interpret the digital display. Just a glance to see if the needle is on the bug and adjust accordingly. So set your bug on approach speed and see if that makes a difference.

Personally I like the tape gauges. They help pack a lot of information in one nice attitude indicator without being obtrusive. They are here to stay, and if possible we should find ways to make them more user friendly rather then going back to a six pack arrangement. If I had any wishes it would be that the ASI color bars were more dynamic and V speed indicators were larger so that you notice them better. Make them as big as the bug so you get that same affect without having to set the bug. You can fly any plane without actual numbers if the V speeds are indicated. Kind of like the relative needle position thing with round gauges. If they are transparent the synthetic vision will show through without any blank spots. Same with the direction indicators on the horizon line. Make them big and transparent.

I like what Dynon is doing. While SV has the same stuff as other glass panels the aesthetics puts them a step above the rest. Keep up the good work - and make the numbers bigger.

 

[RudiGreyling]

Stormscope integration and display for the rest of the world that does not have WX weather.

 

[dabear]

I like the tapes much better than the round gauges. ymmv I'm just used to it. The tapes take getting used to, but once there, I don't see the reason to go back.

I fly the AoA (outside of SV) for approaches so I don't care about what the airspeed indicator shows. Other times, (T/O, cruse, decent) the tapes is just fine. I'm using the old advanced systems AoA I've had for years. I'd like to use the SV, but I have an airplane that needs a boom pitot and the Dynon isn't heated. The SV AoA will do the same thing, and its a quick look in to the display to see AoA and fly it to the flare.

That said I agree with mmarien, I'd love to see the tapes color and V bugs expanded.

As we talk about expanded. I'd like the idea of making the HSI bigger on the screen.

 

[jakej]

1. Stormscope integration and display for the rest of the world that does not have WX weather - DS, IMO you could charge for this feature, Stormscope is an added cost if I interfaced it to my MX20 anyway.

2. I'd love to see the tapes color and V bugs expanded.

3. I'd like the idea of making the HSI bigger on the screen.

These last 2 are a good idea, especially the HSI as I think the dynon one is the smallest of seen on other EFIS systems.

Jake J

 

[hoyden]

I have just started flying my SV1000. I would like to see the configurable GPS fields(DTW, BTW, Alt, Speed) expanded to include ETE or ETA.

 

[lindsayj]

Here are a few dreams after about 40 hours with SV1000 and Garmin 430W.
1. Give us a screen menu with all the bugs displayed above the soft buttons. Push desired button and then dial the number with the joy stick. The stick is way too sensitive to reliably use it without mistakes in rough air. Nasty for hard rough IFR. The menu would apply to the PFD no matter where displayed on the screen and either joy stick would be used for the numbers.
2. Priority for the joystick bugs should be heading. i.e. when not being used the list of bugs would revert to heading with either the dream display above, or the one we have now, so that you could just reach up and turn the knob knowing it would be on heading.
3. You should be able to sync heading instantly by pushing on the appropriate joystick instead of waiting 2 seconds. Do it like on the D10A/HS34. (Or maybe push the menu button again on the dream screen menu, (1) above)
4. When using the PFD full screen in my RV-8A cocked up on final approach, the FPM and runway aiming markers will go under the "heading box" above the HSI and disappear now that the HSI is bigger. I would like you to make the backgound in the box (and the turn rate indicator) transparent, instead of black, so that you can see through it(them).

Comment on analog gages.
The main advantage of needles is that they can be seen peripherally, but the tapes and digits can not. Therefore, with the current PFD's you really have to develop a scan, whereas with the steam gages, you could pretty much stare at the AI, but see the VSI and glideslope and heading out of "the corner of your eye" so to speak. After some 50 years and 6 or 7 hundred hours of actual gage time, it's a struggle to go the tape route, but I'm having a blast doing it. Cheers, Jack L

 

[DrewSwenson]

Expanding on point 4 by Jack L above. In the Cozy (and other canards/EZ aircraft), the aircraft is pretty cocked up in the landing configuration (5 degrees if I remember right) which makes the flight path marker and runway depiction completely disappear underneath the HSI. While this was not a problem for the smaller HSI-----don't revert to the smaller HSI----I like the bigger one. I also like seeing the full HSI on the screen---but would like to have the option for selecting a partial HSI which shifts the HSI partially off the bottom of the page. I would end up making that selection in the last 5 miles or so of the approach.