Name that Avionic

[AggieMike88]

Since I'm researching C177's as a potential purchase, I've got Controller emailing me new listing alerts.

This one just appeared in my inbox: http://www.controller.com/listingsdetail/detail.aspx?OHID=1257901&GenHeader=1

It has something on the panel right above the flap lever I don't recall seeing before. Can you guys help identify it? Is it an older, mechanical display DME device??

 

[Flying_Nun]

I'm voting DME given the 1 & 2 markings and NMs readout.

 

[poadeleted20]

FN's right -- old DME. Can't remember if it's Narco or King. And is that a LORAN I see just below the audio panel? Someone hasn't been keeping up with technology...

 

[kgruber]

It's DME. And the old drum units sound great!!! Probably an ARC model.

ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta .....ta ta ta .....ta at....whap!

 

[poadeleted20]

After further research, it's a King KDI-570.
http://avionicsmasters.com/avionics/dme-distant-measuring-equipment/king-kdi-570-dme-indicator.html

 

[N747JB]

Definately an older DME. I would say looking at the entire avionics stack as a whole, you are gonna want to spend some money on it soon! And avacodo green interior is making a comeback! I am wondering what the hole in the pedestal is for? I like the switches on the lower panel, one is marked DME, it must have been added later..............1980 maybe?

 

[rpadula]

Yeah it's an old as dirt DME. But more importantly...

$65,000!!!?!? YGBSM!

 

[wsuffa]

Easy to gain 100 pounds of useful load here....

 

[Mafoo]

I like the color. If you throw up all over it, no one will notice.

 

[NineThreeKilo]

Looks like a paperweight to me.

For $66k Why would you want a 177?

You can get ALOT more plane then that for that much $$

 

[flyingron]

Even new DME's are kind of useless. I've got a KN64 that I installed right after I bought the Navion (it had pretty much the rest of a silver crown stack: two KX-155, KR-86, KT-78). Now that I have the 480, I turn it on only from time to time for amusement.

 

[AggieMike88]

Looks like a paperweight to me.

For $66k Why would you want a 177?

You can get ALOT more plane then that for that much $$

Didn't say I was gonna chase after that particular one But if you're hinting that better buys can be found for similar money, I agree.

 

[wsuffa]

Even new DME's are kind of useless. I've got a KN64 that I installed right after I bought the Navion (it had pretty much the rest of a silver crown stack: two KX-155, KR-86, KT-78). Now that I have the 480, I turn it on only from time to time for amusement.

IME, that's generally true, although I have taken a RAIM failure (non-WAAS) on an ILS and immediately switched to the DME with no interruption.

 

[flyingron]

Yeah, I have WAAS. I put the DME unit in originally because several of the approaches into IAD where I was based were ILS/DME and because it made scooting around the class B fringes easier if you could display the DME (though it really annoyed the hell out of me that not all class B's are centered on a DME station). Of course, I got a handheld GPS to fix problem #2 in short order (I got serial #000009 of the Garmin 195).