ircphoenix
En-Route
Okay... so here's the idea.
Plenty of people here have lots of criticisms about damn near everything.
So this thread is a place for people to describe how they'd change current technology and incorporate it into their existing aircraft. Basically, if you were the owner of an experimental plane, and in a position to design and install something, or several things, or improve existing things on your aircraft. Transponders, magnetos, avionics, airspeed indicators, flaps, fuel senders, etc.
The rules are: if you're going to criticize someone else's idea, it must be constructive, either by improving on their idea, or offering an alternative that you feel will work better to accomplish their goals. Redundancy or fail safes are a must. If your plane has a current backup, then your improvement must have some sort of redundancy.
So for example, I'd love to have a FADEC in my airplane. Unfortunately I don't think that's possible in something like a naturally aspirated engine in my airplane. The engineering people here probably have a leg up.
Reading another thread where people described the difficulties in incorporating a car engine into an airplane got me thinking. And with all the negativity about ADS-B by some people, I'm really curious how they'd implement an effective replacement.
Plenty of people here have lots of criticisms about damn near everything.
So this thread is a place for people to describe how they'd change current technology and incorporate it into their existing aircraft. Basically, if you were the owner of an experimental plane, and in a position to design and install something, or several things, or improve existing things on your aircraft. Transponders, magnetos, avionics, airspeed indicators, flaps, fuel senders, etc.
The rules are: if you're going to criticize someone else's idea, it must be constructive, either by improving on their idea, or offering an alternative that you feel will work better to accomplish their goals. Redundancy or fail safes are a must. If your plane has a current backup, then your improvement must have some sort of redundancy.
So for example, I'd love to have a FADEC in my airplane. Unfortunately I don't think that's possible in something like a naturally aspirated engine in my airplane. The engineering people here probably have a leg up.
Reading another thread where people described the difficulties in incorporating a car engine into an airplane got me thinking. And with all the negativity about ADS-B by some people, I'm really curious how they'd implement an effective replacement.