Mike Sylvester wrote: >>About the MGL. I have a friend that is building a Bearhawk LSA, He blows me away with his knowledge of electronics. He's having issues with excessive RF. You can't get any radio within 5 feet of the unit without static taking over, even a handheld. After trying all suggestions from the factory, It's got to be shipped back. Your results may vary.<<
Don't get me started on the MGL iEFIS...it won't be pretty! I'll have to write a web page on that, and it'll take months. Suffice it to say that mine will change the FM radio in my hangar from perfect reception of a local station to complete "white noise" as soon as I flip the iEFIS on, and that's running off a backup battery with nothing else in the circuit! And they think I have bad grounds, alternator, ignition, whatever it takes...but that's not what my oscilloscope says, and the FM radio agrees! And it goes WAAAAY deeper than RFI, trust me. More on that as the web page progresses. For that matter, I just got my iFly 720 back in the mail for the second time in two years with maybe 250 hours of use on it. I "bricked" it doing a routine software update just before the Chino Gathering, and the touch screen went south recently, requiring a new one for $120. The software is superb and vastly intuitive, but the hardware has reliability issues. The lack of an internal battery is unforgivable. Compare the old iPad2, which is pretty robust (it stood up to many years of use by my teenage daughter before I inherited it), which has bluetooth and wifi built in and is half as thick with a screen twice as big, has a battery that lasts for many hours (for years), and can be bought used off of ebay for under $100...and it runs the iFly software perfectly. Add a Stratus ADS-b coupled to it, and my old EIS engine monitor, a Trutrak autopilot, an altimeter and airspeed steam gauge, and I'll be quite happy. That's my next instrument panel. See enclosed image... Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com http://www.n56ml.com > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: panel2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 77998 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://list.krnet.org/mailman/private/krnet_list.krnet.org/attachments/20160507/39f9c286/attachment.jpg>
