X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-SpamCatcher-Score: 30 [X] Return-Path: Received: from [69.171.58.236] (account rob HELO [144.54.59.3]) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPSA id 1184197; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:04:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4497499C.6010306@Logan.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:04:28 -0400 From: Rob Logan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 SeaMonkey/1.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Panel Proposal References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > http://mail.lancair.net/lists/lml/Message/36311-03-B/hafen%20iv-p-03%2003-18-06.pdf on the idiot lights... who's De-Ice? are you sure you want Fadec? How will the low fuel light be wired? three gear door up lights would offer much more diag info than speed brakes and fuel pump lights that by looking at the switch will tell you their state. How is the Emer batt wired? also consider the old style gear down lights, one can move the bulb from one to another in the air to insure its not a PPT or bulb failure. how does the price of the idiot box compare to "idiot lights"? why all the complex wiring for the flap position LEDs when you can look out the window? There is an autopilot efis/gps source switch, but the only gps I see is with the CFS, so what's the gps source? one sl30 can send two VORs to CFS http://d2av.com/screen/cdi2.gif and one can monitor two com freqs... (plus the CFS only supports one sl30).. so what's the second sl30 for? perhaps the pma8000 so two people can talk on each sl30 at the same time? if not, the mono pms4000 is half the costs. (heck, it can do both sl30s too). or might you want a sl40 for a second gps? The sorcerer is also very cool, but for $4k less money the DigiFlight II VSGV can do everything but steer the plane via ILS/VOR. oh, I see the headset plugs on the right, but what about the left? what switches do you have on the stick? you went to the expense of a third TV screen just for engine, did you consider a third CFS head that can do engine data and flight data? where are the cabin light dinners pots? I don't see an avionics switch, when do all the TV screens come on? if you got this far, I have another pet peeve.. those cheap cessna split masters. while they insure the battery is there to excite the alt prior to the field getting energized, they restrict a failure mode I experienced at SnF.. One of my battery's shorted.. I could cross tie to energize the second alt, but couldn't disconnect the battery because of the switch.. my choices were to have one or both alts heating up a dead battery, or run the aircraft like a cessna: one battery, one alt. separate field and battery switches would have fixed that. (or pulling the battery relay ground wire from the switch). > the Pro will be updated and gamma 3 capability will be available > shortly, while the Chelton Sport will not be updated. that's a function of the GPS, not the type of screens... > add an Angle of Attack. the CFS has a software generated audible stall warning and pitch limit barb.