Year 2018. The Q200 has been flying for 33 years.
So below is the Q200 panel in 2008. An XP tablet on the dash running APIC Approach. But XP tablets are a bit dated and the Software is no longer updated... ADS-B is new technology that gets weather and traffic in the cockpit. Lets do this!
2008 Shown Below
2018 Shown Below
XP Tablet out. Replaced with a 10.4" Android tablet running the app called Avare.
5" Display added for just Traffic
Unseen: Stratux ADS-B In receiver. Dual band 1090 and 987 receive. Mounted in luggage compartment.
AT150 transponder pulled and a Stratus ESG ADS-B transponder installed. Fully 2020 Compliant.
Unseen: Bluetooth Engine monitor
Unseen: EPIRB in canopy Center.
Unseen: 5V power for tablet and 5" display.
Forward looking Action Camera hooked to the intercom audio.
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Below we see my Clock/Timer. I use this to help with fuel management. Next to it is my Dynon D10 EFIS. The EFIS is really the brains of the operation! No more having to scan the panel. One quick look and I got heading, airspeed, altitude, and attitude.
Below the EFIS is my 33 year old JC Whitney Engine monitor. If anything goes out of spec that red light starts flashing and a signal is sent to my intercom that beeps in the headset. No longer guessing how long the oil pressure has been 0! It shows Oil Pressure, Oil Temperature, RPM, Voltage, Inside and Outside temp. Below that is my Carb temp display. I have one sensor in the throttle plate and one in the carb air inlet. Now when I pull the carb heat I can actually see the air temp rise.
Below is my 5" Traffic Display. It has 2, 5, and 10 mile rings and you can see two airplanes on the screen. It listens via WiFi to the Stratux ADS-B in receiver in the luggage area. Next to that is my Android Tablet running the Avare App. This also listens via WiFi to the ADS-B in receiver but is set to display traffic and weather info.
The Tablet is also running an App calle Torque that is listening to a Bluetooth Engine monitor. This is early in it's development but can do anything the big $$ engine monitors can do. Plus it's totally configurable to do anything you can think of! To the right at the top is my Electronic Carbon Monoxide detector. It is increadably sensitive. I was running it in my garage as a test and I can easily sense the air quality change when a door is opened to the garage. This C0 Sensor lights a red light on the front and an indicator on the tablet displays the air quality value. If the air quality drops below a set limit it sends a voice alarm to my intercom. Below that is my capacitive fuel sensor. It used to read out my vacume, ignition vaume advance, timing, header and main tank fuel level. Cool thing is if the header tank gets low the yellow light starts flashing. Even lower the red light flashes and beeps in the intercom. I'm probably going to obsolete this device and use the new Bluetooth Engine monitor if it passes the flight testing. Below that is what I call my switch panel. All my power and control switches are in this box. It makes it super easy to rewire something. No more crawling under the panel to find a wire. Remove 4 screws and everything is there. You can't easily see that the top left toggle switches are my mag switches. The cool thing is that above the mag switch is a green light. This light turns green for a fraction of a second when a pulse comes from the mag. So in flight the lights are green. If the green ever goes out you've lost a mag!
Looking to the right you see my intercom and some breakers. This is a hold over from 33 years ago. It lets me select the radio and lets me plug in a ham radio into that front DIN connector. I have a new intercom design that uses a microprocessor to measure the cabin sound level and automatically tweek the squelch level. One day this intercom will get new guts! Below that is my IC-A200 comm radio. Seems to be bulet proof and just keeps ticking. Below that is my new Stratux ADS-B Out Transponder. It displays your pressure altitude so you can see what your blind altitude encoder is putting out. It has a WASS GPS and is very accurate. These new transponders continuosly send your speed, altitude, and N# as your flying. It has an OFF switch if that offends you. Next to that is my hobbs meter. If the crank shaft is turning the time meter starts running.
The next day Saturday we met 3 other airplanes at Bartow (about 60 miles away) and had a nice lunch. We went thru the Tampa Class B and they didn't yell at me. This means the radio and transponder are working great. A couple small things to work on like refinish that small area to the left. and the plane will be complete. What am I saying! These things are never complete!
Ger Er Done!
Mike
Please come back soon and visit me often!