Ordered avionics

tmbg · Post by **tmbg** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:44 am

I bought a 430W, SL30, and a pair of indicators from Stark. They got my money yesterday.

Unfortunately, it's going to be four weeks before I get any of it

weezbad · Post by **weezbad** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:26 pm

how refreshing to dump another 16000$ into the project.

man i hope my wife doesnt see this

tmbg · Post by **tmbg** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:39 pm

see, I snuck in before the garmin price increase.

I got all of the above for $13,320

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:41 pm

tmbg wrote:see, I snuck in before the garmin price increase.

I got all of the above for $13,320

Good Lord man! Such a deal!

That's more than my ENTIRE panel!

tmbg · Post by **tmbg** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:57 pm

well it's all going in the cherokee for now

I figure this is a good way to dump money into the project AND improve my current flying digs for awhile

I fly hard IFR enough to warrant it. The avionics in the cherokee have been giving me trouble for awhile, and it's not a tremendous amount more to replace them with new awesome stuff than it is to replace them with used stuff of the same capability.

Plus, I can sell off what I have in there now and get probably $5k back.

weezbad · Post by **weezbad** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:45 pm

cjensen wrote:
tmbg wrote:see, I snuck in before the garmin price increase.

I got all of the above for $13,320
Good Lord man! Such a deal!

That's more than my ENTIRE panel!

chad, if you can say that when your finished then i'll beleive it.
these things get way out of hand...i was thinking i was going to spend about 7500 and ended up around 12,500 not to mention all the breakers and switches..i know you'll probally go fuses so there a little savings there.
i used vans harness and with that i should have used switch breakers and maybe a fuse panel or two. good luck.

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:53 pm

weezbad wrote: chad, if you can say that when your finished then i'll beleive it.

Everybody says that when I tell them how much I plan to spend for my panel. Shop for deals, and it can happen buddy!

Here's my panel...

The empty holes left to right are TT ADI Pilot II, MGL Enigma, SL-40, and GTX-327. No fuse or breakers with the EXPBUS.

I'd be happy to share the page from my spreadsheet that has all the expenses broken down...

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:58 pm

Chad, are you planning on that Andair throttle quad still? I see that you lack room for verniers, so no turning back.

...just wondering.

CJ

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:28 pm

Negative on the Andair quad...I can still do verniers. They hang below the panel, according to plans.

I still plan to use a quadrant tho...

weezbad · Post by **weezbad** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:35 pm

but ive seen many folks, my brother included, go through many itterations. good choice on the auto pilot now. i have a spot for it but will install that later. i went sl 30 and dynons because they work so well together. i plan on adding a 3or 496 later it sends thr freqs to the radio the radio send cdi stuff to the dynon and gtx ties in there somewhere.
i just couldnt bring myself not to have vor capabilites.

tmbg · Post by **tmbg** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:59 pm

I fly IMC, and I want dual glideslopes.

I've been flying the cherokee with a KNS-80 and a NAV-121 (no glideslope), and the KI-206 attached to the KNS-80 has a flaky glideslope movement that sticks occasionally.

I'll feel a LOT better when I get the new stack in there.

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Ordered avionics

Ordered avionics

how refreshing

well if you say so