REFLECTOR: Blue Mountain and GRT

[Andy Millin]

Ok Brooke, what do you want to know about engines?  :)

 

Andy

 

From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Brooke Wolf
Sent: 05-05-2009 4:06
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: REFLECTOR: Blue Mountain and GRT

 

Ok Andy and Michael.  You are making it easy.  For me it will be
Aerocomposite Prop and GRT avionics.  Now about that engine!!?

 

Brooke

 

 

On May 5, 2009, at 3:12 PM, reflector-request at tvbf.org wrote:

 

From: Michael Watson <mikewatsspg at gmail.com>

Date: May 5, 2009 2:26:22 PM EDT

To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list <reflector at tvbf.org>

Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Blue Mountain Avionics

Reply-To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list <reflector at tvbf.org>



GRT HX is the way to go. These guys are innovative and have one of the best
support system in the industry. They just added Flight Director and AHRS
driven
Angle-of Attack to their synthetic vision HITS unit and they are relatively
cheap.



On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Andy Millin <amillin at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Warning: This is another one of my long winded posts . you may want to
ignore it now!

 

Evaluating a product can be a difficult subject to broach on the Reflector.
On one hand, if you have done the research, the community can benefit.  On
the other, it is easy to come off as a shill.  I'm not selling anything!!!

 

I remember when Blue Mountain debuted at Oshkosh.  They did not have a
working, deliverable unit.  They had a demo unit and were taking deposits
and orders.  They had the largest display I had seen available in glass.  It
looked great.  I don't normally like it when products are described as
"sexy", but the Blue Mountain stuff was sexy.

 

At the time I think Chelton was advertising that they had just dropped the
cost of a dual display system from $50,000 to something like $36,000 with
the tag line "now cost isn't a factor!".  Well hell, buy three!!!  If BM was
selling this big, beautiful unit for $12-14K, the price was very attractive.

 

Many people recount that Greg Richter is one heck of a salesman.  He knows
how to make things look good.  He has always had highly polished marketing
material.  He knows how to sell the "sizzle".

 

My friends Jim and Heather Butcher took the plunge and put down a deposit.
BM said the $12K was a show price.  I think the units went from $12K to
$14K, but I don't know the exact numbers.

 

Jim and Heather finished their Europa.  They installed the BM EFIS and EIS.