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At 09:38 PM 4/10/01 -0700, James Genzling wrote: >Hay folks, looking at the dash That's the thing right near the 'panel' right? >on the Coupe and would >like to relocate the radios,( which now run down between >the pilot and pasenger) up into the dash itself. A lot of 'coupes have that center stack due to the lack of depth behind the panel (there's a gas tank there!). In a former life mine had a full IFR stack down there, tube radios and all. Yowzer! Got 45 pounds of useful load back when it went. >Rather than >take the existing dash out and modify it I would like to find >another dash to make the mods in and then just change it >out Skyport and Aircraft Spruce both sell blank Ercoupe panels, with nothing but yoke holes in them. >when the plane is down for maint. Dose anyone have >a used dash they would consider parting with ? If not know >where I could find one ? Before you go buying radios and installing them, consider carefully what you want to do with the plane. I'd fly it a while as-is, or with a navcom slung under the panel before deciding. Most of us have done so much flying with dual nav-coms that we don't really remember what day VFR is like. I've been quite content with only a single Com (VAL 760) and a Lowrance airmap 300 GPS. I do have a hand-held in the flight bag, and a cheapo non-mapping GPS as well. But I have no gyros, nor VOR, ADF, DME, etc. My point is, I hankered for some of those toys for a couple of months after buying the plane. Since then I've been happier and happier not to have certain things on board, like gyros and old-tech nav radios. I guess my ideal Ercoupe panel would now have a really convenient COM radio and one of those nice new color GPS displays which, by their very complexity tend to simplify life. (I'm going to Podunk, oh, there's the route and terrain from here, gotta add a waypoint to get around the airspace, and by golly the GPS has just entered the COM frequencies on the route into the radio's memory too.) Greg __________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 ==^================================================================
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