Dico,

Several others have gone into details regarding the very good reasons why you wouldn’t want to back up one non-TSO’d glass panel with another non-TSO’d glass panel, so I won’t go over that again.  I will add this anecdote:  Several years ago at an air show I got to stick my head into an F-18 cockpit.  Among all of the wiz-bang weapons control screens and switches, there was a spinning mass AI gyro and a steam gauge altimeter, to give the pilot one final chance to save the plane.  Now, which do you think underwent more failure testing, the G3X or the F-18’s avionics?

Gary Fitzgerald

LNC2 ~70%

St. Charles, MO

Looking for a good deal on

a rebuildable (I)O-360

Hello,

After a trip to OshKosh, I'm planning on re-doing the panel in my IV-P.  I'm wondering where the best place would be to get 2.25" airspeed, altimeter, attitude indicator.  The instruments I have now have Lancair logos on them, so I presume they shipped with the kit.  Does Lancair have the 2.25" instruments as well.

Also, if you were  redoing the panel with a Garmin G3X system (3 screens with battery backup), would you even bother putting in the 3 steam guages as backup or is 3 screens redundant enough?

Finally, is there a market for the instruments/avionics I take out?  Perhaps Barnstormers....    stuff like vision microsystems engine monitor, sandel ehsi, steam guages, etc.

Thanks folks!

-Dico