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I need to figure out why I don’t get an email or something when someone @ me :) I would have tried to make this, if my cardinal was t down for annual.

DeeLee, just had a thought. Is your 430w setup to send vertical flags in its datastream to the Aspen?

DeeLee, I just noticed in your photo, your Aspen is showing an airport identifier in the bottom left of the HSI. Do you have an E5? I don't think my E5 displays waypoint information like that?

I am not sure what all air info data the Aspen E5 is sending over to the IFD540. I do know I have heading information from my Aspen on my IFD540. I'd like to know what is "avaialable" to be sent over, as I'd love for my IFD540 to be able to calculate the density altitude automatically using...

This link Is an album of all of my settings, on both my Aspen and My IFD540. : https://photos.app.goo.gl/KshR4ghWd9RzcjbS8 Mine is set to "Config B" as seen in this photo...

John, what year is your 177RG? Mine is a 73 and I have the 3/4 width panel. I want to do two displays, but I don't think they'd fit. EVen if I went with a 10" and a 7".

Nope. None of my issues have been resolved and I am still very much not happy with the Aspen and Trutrak. Recently my Trutrak has been having problems holding altitude. It wants to dive and climb and starts oscillation and never can seem to hold any altitude. No help from bendix of course. Aspen...

It’s placarded for 700. That don't mean it won't fly past 700 on the autopilot. The TruTrak will bring it right down to the touchdown zone like its on rails.....if you violate the placard that is :-)

Hey Deelee, just checking in to see if you were able to fix you configuration? Hopefully you got that GPSS button un-greeyed out :-)

Deelee, You gave me a reason to head out to the hangar tonight :-) I also updated my databases too, but figured I would grab some snapshots of my Aspen E5 configuration screens for you to compare against. Here is a google Photos album with screenshots from my Aspen E5 as well as my IFD540...

There is a setting in the Aspen E5 for the ACU. You dont NEED the ACU, but the E5 needs to think its connected to an ACU in order to enable the GPSS button. We had to make this change in the Aspen config recently, since I my GPSS button was greyed out. I don't recall off hand what the change...

Well, my E5 IS NOT working satisfactorily. Thats the problem. The ACU *might* add vertical guidance to the trutrak for an analog NAV radio source like an ILS glidepath. But I don't think that it will add the GPSS vertical guidance that comes from an RNAV approach. I am NOT HAPPY with my E5...

No, it did not. It was an extra $1000 plus install costs if memory serves correctly. We were told the ACU would not give me anything else other than a second NAV radio input. I have an IFD540 for my primary NAV/COMM radio, and a Narco NAV-122 all-in-one unit that I didn't need feeding the Aspen.

Iet me be clear: I LOVE my TruTrak. The autopilot flies great and will do coupled approaches when its direct connected to the IFD540 via the source selector switch. HOWEVER, I DO NOT like the Aspen E5. The "integration" Aspen promised is horrible. It's half-assed at best. this is not a...

Hi ZT! Thanks for the comments. Thom Duncan Avionics in Fayetteville TN, (KFYM) is the shop that did the install. He very nicely trimmed the Cessna plastic overlay to fit the E5 and then he made a custom bracket to mount it, since Cardinals have an odd tilt on their gyro instruments. Its a...

I'm looking to purchase either a Markham or Gann flight bag. If you've got one to sell, send me a message and lets talk price :-)

My E5 didn’t require any backups for IFR but I did have to leave the turn coordinator, airspeed and altimeter in the airplane. I dropped my vacuum system totally though. And let’s be honest we practice partial panel during ifr training for a reason. We should be practicing partial panel as part...

Jesse, Are those probes/sensors/harnesses used or are they new?

I had mine done a two weeks ago. Its a very simple process. The shop did have to pull the E5 out to apply a new sticker to the side of the casing to show its software version. But that took all of 2 minutes to complete. I also have the air-data unlock installed as well. Once the software...

Good luck getting the G3x installed for 8k. The prices I seen for a single G3x system were quite astronomical after install charges and labor out the door, and there was no real good way to drop the vacuum system without adding even more cost. I also considered the G5’s but after flying behind...