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I was considering another GPS/ Navcom just to have a backup GPS and a replacement Navcom with GS for ILS when and if the other Narco craps out. Since I have the Garmin 375 GPS navigator and know it’s buttonology I didn’t think adding a Avidyne would make sense. Do most folks think having a...

Well one of mymold Narco MK-12Ds is finally biting the dust. The orange displays are failing fast. This just started in the past 3 weeks. It’s still useable for AWOS but I need to look for replacement options. I recently upgraded the panel in my Navion with Aspen 2000 Pro Max displays and GNX...

Thx. I will see if they have one they can install.

My avionics shop will probably tell me to quit Xmitting on #2 or buy a new radio. But I will see if they can install a notch filter. If that just a install on the bayonet fittings or do they have to measure and adjust some sort of a pot to clear up the frequencies?

This response nailed it. On my Comm2 radio between 120-122 frequencies when I push the PTT it completely kills the GPS. All of them like a light switch. It didn’t occur on Comm 1 but we could see some slight decrease in some of the green bars. So with old Narco MK12D is the solution new radios...

On my Navion the GPS antenna is a few inches aft of the closed canopy on the R side. The VHF com antenna is a few inches farther aft on the L side. The ELT antenna (old school 121.5 only) is slightly behind that on the R side and further aft on the R side are the 2 RSMs for the Aspen 2000 Pro...

I will try that. Never heard of that before. Thx.

That’s good to know. Hopefully it is just the antenna. My avionics shop can replace that easy enough.

I got the GNX 375 installed a year ago and I am seeing more and more random GPS dropout failures as I fly around near Houston, TX. I usually notice it when the SYN Vis and magenta line on my Aspen displays goes away. I noticed it again a few days ago shooting approaches into Galveston...

I was wondering if the dimming was heat or sunlight related. I can just walk out of my house i to the sun light and the screen goes dark. I was trying to avoid buying a xnaut cooling mount if possible but that may be the only real solution.

In flight I usually just use GP to bring up airport info, frequencies and weather (METAR) reports so I need to be able to read the screens and access the info quickly when hand flying under the hood.

No I have an android Samsung phone that I don’t use as a phone but I do have GP on it and it’s screen doesn’t dim like my iPhone does in the heat. Plus it’s larger than my iPhone 11. So I might try it out during a flight to see how it works.

I am due for a phone update. I also have a Samsung Galaxy phone that doesn’t have the screen dimming issues. I may have to use it in the plane.

Lately the screens on my iPhone 11 and iPad Mini 5 are getting extremely dark when flying. They are fully charged and the screen brightness is up to the max level but they are so dark as to be practically unreadable to me. It’s not a glare issue it’s just the screen is very dark and unreadable...

A buddy said he likes a hood that attached to the bill of his cap but he can’t remember it’s name. Does anyone what the name of the device is?

Are there any good foggles that will fit over glasses? I have started my IFR training and need something that will fit over my glasses and under my headset so I don’t have to take off my hat and headset every time I need to put on or take off the hood. I got a cardboard hood called The Feather...

I didn’t think of a reboot in the heat of action. I just Used my phone but that is a good idea.

This was my first really long cross country trip using GP. I was a FF user before but switched to GP when I added Garmin GNX375 to my panel and FF prices went up. I am not used to using the widgets in real time just yet. I have them set up but just forget to open them up in flight. I had never...

Ok I can do that.

On my recent flight from TX to Il and then to Branson, MO for the annual Navion Society convention I experienced some unexpected issues with my Garmin Pilot app on my iPad. Several times during a flight leg I would tap on an airport to bring up the large circle with icons for airport info...