Just took my Mini-AP for a flight
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 1:54 am
Nice piece of equipment!
Originally intended to replace the Century NSD1000 after its gyro went toes up - I'll be able to use it to transition to glass panel with the Flight Director.
It is currently hooked up with the Magnetometer, ARINC box to my 420W(with Aviation data through a serial port) and serial port to my SL-30.
A few of questions for those of you that have been flying for a while...:
I'm thinking about using the internal GPS as the primary and re-purposing the serial port for ADSB. Jeff mentioned that I might get some confusing indications - but my GPS antennas are about a foot apart - fore and aft...within the defined error radius. Anyone else doing this? Any positive or negative consequences?
When I have the brightness turned up anything over 8 or so, the screen flickers and it looks like there's some burn-in background. Anyone else seen this?
The ARINC output to my S-Tec-30 Autopilot is slow to react and doesn't send a full-roll signal - is there a gain that can be increased to get a better turn rate closer to standard?
Thanks for your help in advance!
Ralph Capen
Originally intended to replace the Century NSD1000 after its gyro went toes up - I'll be able to use it to transition to glass panel with the Flight Director.
It is currently hooked up with the Magnetometer, ARINC box to my 420W(with Aviation data through a serial port) and serial port to my SL-30.
A few of questions for those of you that have been flying for a while...:
I'm thinking about using the internal GPS as the primary and re-purposing the serial port for ADSB. Jeff mentioned that I might get some confusing indications - but my GPS antennas are about a foot apart - fore and aft...within the defined error radius. Anyone else doing this? Any positive or negative consequences?
When I have the brightness turned up anything over 8 or so, the screen flickers and it looks like there's some burn-in background. Anyone else seen this?
The ARINC output to my S-Tec-30 Autopilot is slow to react and doesn't send a full-roll signal - is there a gain that can be increased to get a better turn rate closer to standard?
Thanks for your help in advance!
Ralph Capen