REFLECTOR: Deltahawk engine

[Grigore Rosu]

Dave and Greg,

Thank you for your insightful comments!  I must confess that I'm spending 
a lot of time into investigating avionics and that, at some moment, I was 
even about to buy an MX20 ... Shame on me!  What kept me from buying it 
was not the fact that I am way to early, but the excitement of the idea of 
building a glass cockpit all by myself, using a tablet PC (a la Motion 
Computing) as display connected to some solid-state gyro system (a la 
PC Flight EGyro), etc.

In the light of your experience, it would probably be a good idea to have 
some flowchart explaining the steps that one should follow in the 
construction of a Velocity in order to delay the decision on a particular 
engine or avionics system as much as possible ...  Or maybe there already 
exists one?

Thanks,
Grigore


On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Dave Black wrote:

> Greg & Grigore,
>
>> I think you were spot on with your comment that " It may be a bit too early
>> for me to worry about the engine now" .You can certainly use that (the wait)
>> to your advantage for the engine and avionics are really decisions for very
>> late in the total build (my good mate Dave Black keeps hammering me on this
>> one and the message has got through!).
>
> Right on!!
>
> Take it from one who rushed right out to get a deal on an engine and panel 8
> years ago. Now the engine has 8 years of rust and my brand new,
> state-of-the-art panel is a museum piece. I don't even want to think what
> shape my gyros are in.
>
> The problem is, you never know at the outset whether you will build your kit
> in under 2 years, over 10, or never finish at all. Most builders take longer
> than they expect. With new developments virtually every month, it's always
> best to wait for the last possible moment to buy the engine and avionics.
>
>
> Dave Black
> Shortwing RG
> (99.9% completed)
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