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davidjoyce(at)doctors.org
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:30 am Post subject: radio

Dear All, I wonder whether anyone has an old radio and an old non mode S 

transponder, that they might consider parting with at a bargain price for a 

good cause. I am involved with a local consortium of schools (headed by 

Marling) who are building a Rans S-6 plane provided by the Build a Plane 

Project with volunteer supervisors (including me). The plane comes with 

basic instruments but without a radio. The school has the flying of the 

plane for 150 hrs after its completion, and in the local environment that 

would be immensely safer with a radio, but school budgets being in a state 

of meltdown, they are not best placed to buy a shiny new one!

             So if you have just upgraded from a microair or similar to an 

all singing/dancing Garmin SL30 etc, please get in touch.

Regards, David Joyce, G-XSDJ

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Bill & Sue

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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 7:33 am Post subject: Re: radio

David,



Now, I'd just crossed an sl40 off my list of possible radios because it appears to be a fraction too long to fit the panel... do I infer correctly from your note that it can be made to fit the standard Europa panel after all?

Regards



Bill



PS sorry, this would be a first one -not a replacement!

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davidjoyce(at)doctors.org
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:09 am Post subject: radio

Bill, I had rather picked that out of the air as the sort of radio that folk 

might upgrade to, although I thought I had said SL30 which has twin Nav as 

well as twin com channels. One of those fits very nicely in my Europa XS, 

and is a fantastic bit of kit.(Picture attached) If you do mean SL40 then I 

imagine that would be the same size or smaller.

Regards, David Joyce, G-XSDJ

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trevpond(at)aol.com
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:56 am Post subject: radio

Bill



I have an SL30 in my Europa G-LINN - fitted straight in the panel.



Regards



Trev Pond



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On 21 Feb 2011, at 15:56, "David Joyce" <davidjoyce(at)doctors.org.uk> wrote:



[quote] Bill, I had rather picked that out of the air as the sort of radio that folk might upgrade to, although I thought I had said SL30 which has twin Nav as well as twin com channels. One of those fits very nicely in my Europa XS, and is a fantastic bit of kit.(Picture attached) If you do mean SL40 then I imagine that would be the same size or smaller.

 Regards, David Joyce, G-XSDJ

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richard.churchill-coleman
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:08 am Post subject: radio

Bill



There's a Eurocontrol consultation underway at the moment to introduce

mandatory 8.33kHz capable transceivers to new fit outs from roughly June

2012, below FL195 as well as the current above FL195 requirement.  If

implemented (highly likely) it will also mandate that all new radios offered

on the market after June 2012 must be 8.33kHz capable.  As a result Garmin

should be thinking hard about an SL30/SL40 8.33kHz unit for the market early

next year - might be worth holding out for.



Regards

Richard C-C 



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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:19 am Post subject: Re: radio

Thanks David,



I believe the sl30 and sl40 come in the same size box, just the sl40 lacks the Nav bits as you say, I had measured my panel depth as about 2cm short of the required depth. However this clearly can't be the case!



The SL30 which  does indeed look a fantastic peice of kit, but I am currently planning on buying  a com-only box and putting the money towards the Garmin G3 ... I'm putting some of the panel in now but although I'm necessarily planning what goes where, the current intention is to delay buying the actual avionics until the last minute.

Thanks to your reassurance I'll look again at the SL40, which was my original preferred choice.



Regards

Bill

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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:29 am Post subject: Re: radio

Thanks Trev and Richard - that crossed in the aether- I hadn't thought that 8.33 would affect us but methinks you would be the person to know about these things in particular, and that makes another reason to delay buying the electronic bits until I'm a little  closer to actually using them.

Regards



Bill

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