skirting_virga
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The extent of my glass panel experience is flying a few variously-equipped Skyhawks with two G5s, an Aspen PFD, a G3X touch, and a either a Garmin 530, 650, or 750 GPS. When I look at the experimental world, there are a lot of options and I've known about the existence of Dynon for about 20 years now, without necessarily understanding the "big picture" of why someone would choose a particular configuration.
Dynon Skyview got me thinking about synthetic vision, which seems a "must" for SA. But Dynon also sells Advanced Flight Systems (a company they acquired?), and I don't really understand how this product line differs from Dynon's SkyView offerings. On top of all that, there are now a few different options from Garmin for PFD/MFDs, at pricing that seems decent for the experimental market. Even 3 main branches seems like a recipe for paralysis-by-analysis. What are the major pros/cons to the various systems offered?
If I had to state a preference, I prefer functions linked to hard buttons over touchscreen menus - as an example, the CDI button on a Garmin 530 is accessible from all screen pages, while switching the "CDI button" in a GNS 650/750 requires navigating to a particular screen. From this perspective something with more buttons (Skyview?) seems more to my liking than something that is more dependent on navigating modal "pages" like G3X Touch (though to be fair, I have spent very limited time using one).
Perusing the top most recent threads, almost everyone seems to be choosing G3X touch. Why?
Can anyone help me understand the landscape?
Dynon Skyview got me thinking about synthetic vision, which seems a "must" for SA. But Dynon also sells Advanced Flight Systems (a company they acquired?), and I don't really understand how this product line differs from Dynon's SkyView offerings. On top of all that, there are now a few different options from Garmin for PFD/MFDs, at pricing that seems decent for the experimental market. Even 3 main branches seems like a recipe for paralysis-by-analysis. What are the major pros/cons to the various systems offered?
If I had to state a preference, I prefer functions linked to hard buttons over touchscreen menus - as an example, the CDI button on a Garmin 530 is accessible from all screen pages, while switching the "CDI button" in a GNS 650/750 requires navigating to a particular screen. From this perspective something with more buttons (Skyview?) seems more to my liking than something that is more dependent on navigating modal "pages" like G3X Touch (though to be fair, I have spent very limited time using one).
Perusing the top most recent threads, almost everyone seems to be choosing G3X touch. Why?
Can anyone help me understand the landscape?
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