REFLECTOR: Garmin WAAS Upgrade

[Rene Dugas]

Terry,

I now have about 80 hours on my Aerocomposite and love it.  It is smooth
fast and looks good.  It is holding up to rocks and debris with only a
few paint nicks.  There is no comparison to the MT accumulated damage
from before.  I had already repaired my MT twice in less than 40 hours.
It took a little longer to get than promised but it so far has performed
as promised.  Added about 8 knots to my cruise and over 500 ft/ min to
climb.

Rene'

 

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Terry Miles
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 6:08 PM
To: 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Garmin WAAS Upgrade

 

Rene,

Thanks for the info on Garmin.  Whilst you were out doing battle w/
avionics I had a ph conversation w/ the fellow who will be the DAR on my
bird.  As you know I have the aerocomposite prop too.

 

He wanted to know if anybody had the aerocomp prop on a Velo with a
Lycoming 540 and had logged at least 50 hours with this configuration.  

 

Is that you?

 

Thanks for getting back.and for other contributions to us all too.

Terry.  

 

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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Rene Dugas
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:27 AM
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: REFLECTOR: Garmin WAAS Upgrade

 

Dear Folks,

I recently completed my adventure flying around the US.  Just before I
left I upgraded my two Garmin 430's to the WAAS with Terrain.  The first
one came back with the right knob broken and the comms don't work.
Mailed it back off.  The second one was over a week late and too late to
take on my trip, sooooo.   I borrowed two friends WAAS 430's for my
trip. Two more days in the avionics shop with data card miss matches and
corruption problems then the number two radio would receive but not
transmit voice.  I finally took off for Billings Montana and both
Garmins went into a Loading ... mode and would not recover.  I returned
to the avionic shop.  Five hours later and three data updates nothing
was better.  WE reconfigured the units to work completely separately and
pulled the circuit breaker on the Storm scope and each worked perfectly.
I stopped at Aerotronics in Billings Montana were my panel was assembled
and two hours later the answer was discovered.  Garmin whom we had
talked to no less that five times in the last 36 hours informed us that
the upgrade will not work with an installed WX 500 Stormscope.   It has
worked well for four years but GArmin has no idea when they will get the
data problem fixed for my panel.  Just in case someone has had a similar
problem without resolution.

Rene'  

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