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Yes it does Jack. The Skyecho is only 20watts output not 250 watts so its only local aircraft to aircraft at low levels...below 5000ft. Somewhere between 10 and 40nm they say depending on where you stick it in the cabin of course. It will show up on the AirServices ground ADSB units also others like FlightAware and FlightRadar 24 at lower levels too as there are more of those stations around than AirServices ground stations. The local agent here keeps selling out of stock and Ozrunways are selling them..not sure if Avplan are selling them. There is a stack out there now. its so much cheaper than a normal ADSB unit...about 900 bucks instead of 5 to 10k. It is picked up by all ADSB equiped aircraft You are not supposed to mod these units but as you know if you hooked up the output to a proper ADSB antenna mounted outside the aircraft the range will be far better. I have sussed out a few things and it would be very easy to do if we can get the miniture connector that will just push into the test port which then disconnects the pcb trace antenna and it then would come out a coax tail to then hook to a correct antenna. But this particular pcb connector is smaller than what anyone makes..at the moment. I have been emailing and even got some samples from a manufacturer of these pcb connectors but they were the wrong size. The left pcb antenna is the FLARM the right side is ADSB. Both have the test connectors on them BTW there are a lot more components on the underside of that pcb and also you can see the battery tabs at the top and bottom of the board

Yes it receives FLARM...but not in this country...Flarm is on 800mhz in UK and Eurpoe but here its on 400mhz so does not work and is disabled for Australia in the proramming of the unit

With the ADT you still need a transponder. The Vixen would have had a Mode C transponder in the aircraft. Thats the same as the Skyecho operation except the ADT uses funky software to detect the squark codes and derives angle and distance from RSSI from the older transponders. The PowerFlarm unit has similar softare to that. The Powerflarm is just a receiver..a very expensive receiver 3k The Skyecho is both a ADSB in and out. It doesnt do the dectection like the ADT or Powerflarm does. I sent a email about other mode transponder detection to Uavionix and there was plans to do somethig similar but I believe they didnt go any further with that side of it because it wasnt worthwhile seeing all the other modes will be deleted in the near future and it will only be ADSB in and out used

That unit is RX only..the Skyecho transmits 20watts all your position data . That unit is a Stratux on steroids

Jack the EC uses GPS and gets the position data from the data stream put out by ADSB of the other aircraft..it doesnt use RSSI to get distance it calculates from the GPS data

yes Gary The CS prop hasnt been released yet they are in testing and longevity phase. maybe mid to late 2021 for release...got no idea of price yet but they will do manual IFA, Electric....which is what those looked like and a hydraulic version

I dont know if anyone noticed but thats the first time I have seen that video. That looks like to me the new constant speed hubs and blades on the desk in the last 3/4 of the video

This is easily answered...for god sake someone take a spirit level with then when they fly next and orientate it down the centreline of the aircraft and tell us what you see

I agree I should have qualified my statement...A "AOA meter" as most use in aircraft on a separate gauge or EIFIS as they show the lift reserve you have. A "AOA indicator" is a different animal..its just a vane with a pot on it to show angle only. The ones available for our normal use are run with software

Another name for a AOA is a lift reserve indicator. jets flying at say 900km at 35,000 ft will stall about 40 or 80 knots lower than 900kph..well thats what commercial jet pilot told me...and it makes sense as the air is much thinner. AOA's work and are regularly used but they measure airflow..really nothing else. I would think they work the same at 35,000 ft the same as at 1000 ft...its just the density that changes

Not sure if I put this in my original XL blog. But obviously I did this again with the rebuild. The two bottom mounts on the engine mount first than did them up. I just used some straps on the top of the mount to pull it to the firewall. Then once it was nice to the firewall and dead centre of the vertical alu support I drilled the top holes from the engine mount side at the top. I then fixed it temporarily with 2 bolts and drilled the middle ones into the steel support brackets. I then pused the cabin frame front up to meet at the tops and used longer sts boltes to pull the cabin frame to the motor mount. Only took me 30 mins or so. It helps of course if you have done it more than once 🙂

Very rough rule of thumb is whater the price in US$ is the purchase price then basically double that and you have the price in aussie dollars landed everything paid US$125,000 at .72Cents was about AU$240,000 by the time you get it in the hangar

The cap is there to absorb the spikes and crap coming from the reg. The rotax engine manual actually states that it an "optional component". It appears its main function to Rotax is noise filtering not so much ripple filtering Glenn is correct it does depend a lot on how the wiring is setup. Everyone has a different idea about how it should be done. It depends on how you look at it..the perspective I mean. What Glenn and I would do is not necessarily the same as stated in the manuals. We look at it more from a electronics point of view and protecting those expensive bits of silicon For example every single power supply requires both ripple filtering for the rectifier and also noise filtering for interference and also there needs to be voltage spike protection. Powersupplies most often have a zener diode across the output. For example a DC supply that is used for say your base station aviation radio may have a zener diode across the output. That is to put a direct short on that output if the reg craps itself and puts more than 13.8V on the output. The 15 or 16V or even 18v zenner will conduct and cause a massive current to flow that then blows either a DC or the AC fuse in the supply. This should protect the equipment attached to the supply. This is no different to the DC being generated in your aircraft. There needs to be ripple conditioning for the actual DC coming out of the reg then there should be some sort of over voltage protection which there is not in any Rotax install that I have seen and most installs have a fuse somewhere that blows when your radio or EFIS becomes the zener diode

Much larger heatsink and a proper heatsink not a cast bit of scrap alu is used for the unit.

I am using high speed hi current TO-247 package diodes The bridges they use almost unsolder the tags from the pcbs..we have pulled a heap apart and repaired them. other issues as well with heat too...the bridges they use are std and good for 50 hz but not for 500hz

Glenn the Rotax has 8 poles and at 5800 rpm its about 464 hz out of the generator. You can see at around 5000 rpm on the first cro pic the freq is 416hz

Thats one of ours....the std generator is max 18 amps but it gets pretty hot. The big issue is the actual ducati regulator..its a POS. They use a std bridge rectifier in it and the amount of heat often creates bad a cooked solder joints on the main current components. Ours uses high current single package diodes and SCR's. Thats from a year ago those waveforms..its even better now. We decided to limit the current to a base of 10 amps so not to cook Litium batteries if the internal BMS craps itself in the battery and also by limiting the voltage you should never have any issue with the Lithium. There is a plug selector to allow higher currents up to 14 amps for charging. We decided that was the limit for the generator. Ours has far far better heatsinking as well. It also has the same hole mounting specs as the original

Yep flick those 2 rivets..the strength is the bolt through it..and a wide washer is needed as well on the inside on the floor. If I was at home I could post a pic of the sav version but I am away for another 5 days

The Rotax generator is a dirty simple thing. The std regulator is also a dirty and poorly designed and built unit. Typical of most motorbike stuff. The reg we have redone and running is far better it is also capable of very good current limiting and voltage regulation. We have a unit testing now and it has gone through some "fine tuning". I am currently doing the final layout of the pcb. It will be in 2 parts. You can have a very good regulator only and with another unit that bolts on underneath you can then have current limit and voltage limiting which will allow you to use a Lithium battery safely. It will of course charge other chemistry batteries perfectly fine. This is a early version the regulator only.

Totally depends on the bucks you want to spend. I have been using the MGL Xtreme in my sav for 5 years..I liked it so much I bought another for it..they fit in a std 3 1/8 hole. if you want far better accuracy then you need to get the SP 6 compass module..which works just fantastic and also the SP 7 AHRS module. The Xtremem you dont have to get them but it is sort of like the Dynon then. The local MGL guys here know how to charge..probably be better to import from the USA now the dollar is better The Sav rebuild I bought another Xtreme for it also a SP6 and SP7 and a RDAC as well which will allow the same instrument to be a engine monitor..its very accurate. For the RANS S-21 I have the MGL Explorer 8.5 inch with the Ibox as it will have a dual axis autopilot. I have all the bits for the total install inc the new V16 radio...that works really well too. Its a new type of internal digital design..it has a playback function so if you miss a call just press the button and it will replay it for you..it is also capable of doing 10 watts and has a SWR meter built in so if you have any coax or antenna issues it will bring up a flag I believe with the Xtreme and the latest software you can fit servos for autopilot for it as well but not going to spend another 2k for 2 sevos for the Sav

The Pilot Aware system must have a series of antennas round style head on a cardinal arrangement to get those tracks...Do you know if it is a rotating switched arrangement ? or just a dopler arrangement for RSSI for the reciever?

https://www.rotax.com/en/100-years/historical-vehicles-engines/detail/type-936.html?fbclid=IwAR0piK9bnOzo91aDYZ4ZslfbC6KnD8lQ-D6c6wCO9c-06sC96AKx0yn_lB8

I think it will be along the SAAA rules for maint etc for home builders and mostly the same as normal GA for the factory builts

I think it will happen quicker than 5 years..more like 1 to 2 years

Hi Gary No I havent heard anything further. i read a bit more about it though and there is a small difference in why it cant been seen but not sure if it is true or not. On another note I have my V16 running here and it seems to be pretty good so far. It does require some adjustment of levels as it is quite configurable. Rainer has a setup on the MGL forum..the new forum the old one has been shut down