PagoBay
Well-Known Member
From earlier in this thread. FYI...
I was a mechanical design engineering in the medical and aeronautical fields for ~35 years (including engineering management). The quality of the mechanical engineering in all of the MGL equipment that I've seen is... what's the word... terrible. PC boards unsupported by anything other than the soldered DB-15 connector; PC boards floating inside plastic housings, etc. Not to mention that their US support was one guy, so if he gets run over by a bus... They've just started using a distributor, but who knows how that's going to go. Then there's the terrible UI in their iEFIS system; the software that works sometimes, and the RDAC engine monitor that we couldn't get to work even with the one support guy telling us that we had hooked everything up right with his help.
Now, I've never seen a Vega unit. Maybe they're a lot better than the previous generations. I don't know. But I wouldn't bet MY $$$ on it until I'd seen one, disassembled it, and tried it out. And then get a Garmin, Dynon, or some other vendor's product.