Recent content by MooneyDriver78

I went through over a hundred W&B entries for my plane and found about 20 errors (math, transposing digits, omissions), in the end it resulted it the weight being off by 2lbs, I keep the W&B sheets and my spreadsheet I created in my POH, which got too fat with supplements for the original binder...

The accuracy might be more limited by the display resolution than electronics sensors.

N7767M, it’s an F.

Why do they care where you are on initial call? Or your current altitude? Once they make radar contact they will give you what position they see. Some reply with “position checks”. They also ask for altitude (“say altitude”) AFTER they’ve given you the correct barometer setting, so they can...

I can’t think of page that takes more than 3 taps to get to with Garmin Pilot. Generally is a tap on the map (like an airport), then tap on one of the pages in a radial menu (like weather, directto, information), then for information tap on a submenu (frequencies, procedures, fuel). If you have...

Or they may use vref or some other appraisal tool that may not accurately reflect the value of your plane. I would recommend getting an AP or two to give you a detailed estimate of how much it would take to repair the plane.

There wasn’t any avionics work done recently?

Get a king size bed.

You can also expand the plate to full screen and zoom in, I use it for situational awareness. If wired to a garmin radio (like the 255), you can use it to transfer frequencies. And the 660 can only connect to 1 Bluetooth device at a time.

You’re doing something wrong if 10 inches isn’t enough.

Can GNS handle airways? I vaguely remember they couldn’t and if GTN has an airway how would GNS handle it?

I don’t have the room for 12”, would be nice to have a faster processor to improve the database loading times.

There’s 2 kind of audio BT connections, 1 is a phone connection and the other is a plain audio connection. I can’t see having 2 phone connections but you might be able to have 2 audio connections.

First decide if you prefer ear plug style or classic ear muff style. Everyone has a different head shape/size, if you go to an air show you can probably try most of the models out. I chose A20s way back when ANR was relatively new, they work for me even on 12 hour days, but they are pricey...

As mentioned database updates will fail, but many if not most GPS units are not acting in isolation, they’re interconnected to transponders(ADSB), engine monitors, etc, and assuming they don’t take the time to copy the configuration files from one to the other, the owner is going quickly see...