lolo2769
New Member
Hello,
My cousin and I are both wanting to build a Kitfox S7 (or similar). He is an airline pilot and I am on my way to finish the frozen ATP instruction. We live and fly in Switzerland (the country of banks, chocolate and mountains ;-) ). In Switherland we can only fly VFR by day with experimental aircrafts. So no need for IFR or NVFR instrumentation.
My question is, what is the most cost effective way to chose for the cockpit? glass cockpit with an EFIS (For example Dynon 10A) and some COM/transponder/ELT or the "old" way with gyros and the standard T (speed, attitude, altitude, directional gyro). We don't need a GPS, we already have a Garmin Aera 500 that we can install in the cockpit.
For the maintenance and installation, what is the best solution? I know that we live in 2012, but we will both be flying "complex" glass cockpit aircrafts and for the week-end we only want something simple to fly over our beautiful mountains...
thanks for your answers,
Laurent
My cousin and I are both wanting to build a Kitfox S7 (or similar). He is an airline pilot and I am on my way to finish the frozen ATP instruction. We live and fly in Switzerland (the country of banks, chocolate and mountains ;-) ). In Switherland we can only fly VFR by day with experimental aircrafts. So no need for IFR or NVFR instrumentation.
My question is, what is the most cost effective way to chose for the cockpit? glass cockpit with an EFIS (For example Dynon 10A) and some COM/transponder/ELT or the "old" way with gyros and the standard T (speed, attitude, altitude, directional gyro). We don't need a GPS, we already have a Garmin Aera 500 that we can install in the cockpit.
For the maintenance and installation, what is the best solution? I know that we live in 2012, but we will both be flying "complex" glass cockpit aircrafts and for the week-end we only want something simple to fly over our beautiful mountains...
thanks for your answers,
Laurent
