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I removed ours but I think I wish I'd kept it, it would display on our G500 TXi. We've lost GPS a couple times flying near the test areas in Utah, and while ATC would put you on a heading until you get it back (no big deal) it would have been neat to play with. In Mexico some of the approaches...

Does an F-16 need deice? Case closed.

I don’t think this personality type has a large social circle, which is maybe part of the problem. No one to call him out, or talk things through over a beer. I really hope this guy doesn’t die. I think this project needs to be shelved and he can have a great story to tell his fellow software...

Someone is.

Based on the tone I'm worried this is going to turn into a Facebook type back and forth, so I'll leave this here for people to start to dig further if wanted: http://eaaforums.org/showthread.php?1260-FIKI-and-Amateur-Build-Aircraft/page2

You implied an uncertified aircraft could be certified for FIKI if only a manufacturer went to the trouble. That is incorrect.

It’s not that they aren’t, it’s that they can’t be. Also they are already legal to fly in icing as far as I know so there would be no reason to.

He also said it will do 300 knots, I’m worried if he said de icing is possible that means it isn’t...

As far as I know there is no such thing as FIKI certification on an experimental airplane.

How practical/impractical would it be to deice the twin? ThermaWing was mentioned earlier in the thread. With a pair of diesels and a deiced wing/canard this would be something.

Sandia is probably going out of business, I don’t think there is a fix. Learning in progress. I had a KI-300 (rebadged 340) and it would tell me I was turning left in a right turn. It’s now on its way back to them, hopefully bound for the landfill where it can’t kill anyone. GI-275 that replaced...

I was told the same person developed the AHRS units in both.

The reason to use a G5 over a 275 is it is less than half the cost, clearly the 275 is a more advanced unit. G5 is approved for Class II aircraft, which are <6,000 gross. I was referring to the AV-30 software guy being the same as the KI-300/SAI-340 (obviously those are the same unit, although...

I was told the same guy wrote the software for both units.

G5 is certified also, at least as a backup. Just replaced our KI-300 with one.

I haven’t thought about this in a bit, someone more knowledgeable than me can check my work here: Pressure altitude could be viewed as the ambient pressure “broken” in a specifically agreed upon way, which may be a more helpful view than saying it is “corrected”. As with density altitude, it is...

I was going to ask for a replacement or warranty unit for the KI-300 but it seems clear they have no intention to fix this life-threatening problem with this atittude indicator given how many years this problem has been occurring so I'm going with a different brand. I hope no one dies as a...

AV-30 is cheaper and less capable, buy what you need. Some things you can do on the 275 that you can't on the 30: altitude preselect autopilot heading and airspeed bug vertical speed bug baro sync magnetic heading AP ESP marks synthetic vision traffic display flight director touchscreen Also...

My understanding was this was only for dealers who had ordered and received a GTN that had not yet been sold to a customer, I assume meaning not yet paid for and picked up. In other words this was only for new, rather than used (if only briefly) GTNs.

It has competition at its price point in the experimental world, but there's nothing that does what it does for $2k in the certified world, so I think this is correct. Does anyone know if it is legal to install experimental avionics in a certified plane if they are not required avionics...