You may need to find a new shop 🙂 Even the GMA 340 supported stereo at every jack.

Well, absolutely 100% for sure, they can get stereo sound (if wired to stereo jacks and stereo headsets plugged in). I’m actually not sure if Garmin does the Virtual-3D comm audio to the rear seats or not, though I imagine it would. I’ll have to plug in to my rear jacks and try it out to be sure. However, if your rear seaters are listening to…[Read more]

Highly recommend Savvy, even at the free tier. It’s very easy to share the data with others for analysis and they have a nice interface for looking at things like GAMI spread. I have all our regular maintenance customers signed up with them (some are paying, some just free) and they can send me links to look at if they have questions.

Glad you got it figured out!

Did you recently install the 450B? What did you have in it before? How long had you had the 450 before this issue cropped up? The static-y nature of it vs pulsed noise from the transmission makes me feel it’s likely the DME audio and not some induced noise. The volume of the audio panel I believe only changes the intercom volume, not the volume of…[Read more]

Is the DME audio wired in to the PMA450B audio panel? If so (and it probably is), are you sure that the DME source is not selected in the audio panel?

Do you have a GTN attached to it? If you do, just tap the transponder control box on the display, then tap flight ID and type it in. If you don’t have a GTN, you’ll need to do it the slower way through front panel of the 345.  You’ll press the FUNC key until the display shows XPDR. Then press the 8 and 9 (up and down) keys until it shows Flight…[Read more]

Are you flying pilots and paws or something where you are going to need to be changing the flightID? It’s not too bad to change it (assuming installed set it up for configurable flightID), but a little clumsy due to not having a query keyboard (you end up entering it like the old T9 text messaging). However, if you have it interfaced to a GTN,…[Read more]

It’s counter-intuitive/non-obvious but that does also share the profile. There is a link to the profile in the email and when someone taps it, it imports the profile to ForeFlight.

Should be able to share a W&B from FF. I believe you just need to hit the box with up arrow, and then send email (see picture), you can then import it on iOS from the email.

I have one of the SairCorp ones, love it. I think it’s the SSMRG. Attaching a pic.

There are two for sale on Beechtalk right now. An MX-20 for $1200 https://www.beechtalk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=174273 and a GMX-200 for $2500 https://www.beechtalk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=174225

Hope that helps!

There are two for sale on Beechtalk right now. An MX-20 for $1200 https://www.beechtalk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=174273 and a GMX-200 for $2500 https://www.beechtalk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=174225

Hope that helps!

Michael, I did put in 2 landing lights. Have been very happy with that setup.

You’ll be happy with the Whelens too, I’m sure. I had the first gen ones for quite a few years and they were way better than the incandescents, and the second gens should be better than the first. I decided to try the AeroLEDS after an Aviation Consumer article. They offered to take them back if I wasn’t happy so I figured it was worth a try!

As an point of reference, I replaced my Whelen LED bulbs this year with the AeroLED Sunspot 36-4596 (28V)  bulbs, they are MUCH brighter.

Near the front of the wiring schematics section there is always a table showing how to interpret the SR (serial request) numbers (what they put on the diagrams) to actual serial numbers. I don’t have an R182 MM handy, but here is one from a regular 182.

I believe an Icarus SAM (no longer made, but many are being removed as G5’s and such are installed), or a GDC31 can be installed to provide the switch between heading and GPSS to your 400B.

In addition to salvage yards/eBay, check McFarlane. I know I got an email recently that they now had PMA on wheel pant mounting plates that at least cover some of the years of 152 & 172s.

Your best bet on a repair for the century is Autopilots Central in OK.

The GFC500 is available for your airframe, but nothing from your century is reusable. The hardware is $6995 for the 2 axis AP, adding ~$1600 per servo for either auto-trim, or yaw damp (or both). You’ll also have to have at least one G5 installed if you don’t already. Als…[Read more]