2thman(at)cablespeed.com
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 Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:57 am Post subject: RV10-List Digest: 35 Msgs - 01/31/08 |
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Hello Mark et al,
I'm a lurker on your site and thought I'd chime in with an opinion. I am
nearly finished with my Lancair IVP and strongly considered the ADI by Tru
Trak until I understood how it works. My plane will be all electric with 2
screen Chelton MFD panels and the ADI could have conceivably doubled for a
couple of back up steam gauges. That was an exciting concept.
The deciding factor was that because of the VSI input mimicking attitude
function, I felt that the display could be very confusing and disorienting
in the very spot where I would need it the most to survive a total failure
of the MFD system. I think it would take a complete retraining in order to
safely fly a high performance airplane in emergency conditions and I would
have to maintain proficiency in that retraining. For almost 50 years I've
been used to knowing exactly what an AI instrument is telling me and I'm not
comfortable with a gauge that looks like an AI but really isn't.
For that reason I reluctantly passed and accepted the standard 2" 6 pack for
"save my butt" backup. By the way I am a complete rah rah fan of the Tru
Trak autopilot and the folks who came up with it. I purchased what turned
out to be prototype servos when the company started and they graciously
replaced them shortly afterwards when they found they needed more robust
ones for the IVP. Good guys and brilliant visionaries.
Regards,
John Barrett, CEO
Barrett/Garrett Enterprises, Inc.
PO Box 428
Port Hadlock, WA 98339
www.carbinge.com
Hi:
I've been looking at the TruTrak ADI (Attitude Direction Indicator) as a
back-up
for my panel. I was reading the manual and it appears it operates quite a
bit
differently than a standard attitude indicator.
Has anyone flown with the TruTrak ADI? Could you describe your thoughts on
how
it flew compared to a standard AI?? Did you like flying it?? Do you think it
is
worth it?? Etc??
Thanks
Mark
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