Hello Tom,
I was afraid someone would say that. Obviously looking at all the panels in our
fleet, most have steam gauges as primary or backup. While I don't intend to
joust with Thor, it may be unavoidable some day. It may not be possible to
isolate all of the electronics from a lightning event but I'd hoped the state of
the art had advanced enough to make that risk acceptably small. It would be
interesting to know how many pilots flying dual EFIS panels with backup gauges
were forced to rely on the gauges at some point.
Building electronic redundancy gobbles up panel space but perhaps with a little
shuffling I can fit in a 3 pack - even with a small Legacy panel.
Stan