Show us your panel pics

[buzz]

Would like to see pictures of your panel. Here is mine. 2 Dynon Skyviews, Dynon Comm, Intercom, Auto Pilot, Knob Panel, Garmin 796 in the middle.

[Flocker]

Here's a pre-delivery shot of mine taken at the Tecnam facility in Sebring.

[Cluemeister]

My aircraft is scheduled to ship this Friday. I have requested pics, and if I receive them I will post!

[Flocker]

Aug 10, 2016 22:28:01 GMT Cluemeister said:

My aircraft is scheduled to ship this Friday. I have requested pics, and if I receive them I will post!

Can't wait to meet/see her!

[jetcat3]

We can't either Greg!

Here are a couple of ours...

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[cole505]

Wow! You guys have some very cool panels.... Simply awesome! This is the G3X non touch..... Technology is so darn fast! I do like having both the Glass & analog gauges I have acutualy needed the steam gauges do to a system fault ...... I was glad they were there......

Ray🇺🇸👍🏻😎✈️🐾

[buzz]

Lucky Ray and Lucy you have the panel mounted vents. Are those pretty effective? As you can see on mine those two spots are blanked out.

I chose the Skyview for a couple of reasons. Mostly because they kept all the push buttons and knobs from the legacy Skyview when they added touch capability. I was very concerned about touch screen use while flying. At work I have a touch screen mobile data terminal sitting in front of me in the fire engine. It's a total pain to use while bouncing down the road. I also have essential tremors which causes my hands to shake which doesn't help the situation. I live an hour away from Dynon so I figured it would be handy to show up on the Dynon doorstep if I have an issue.

As you can see I also have the Garmin 796 in the middle and that is a touch only operation. A little challenging to use in flight but it is super cool. You might notice that is sits in a docking station so it can be removed and taken home. I have actually used it while sitting on commercial flights with no external antennae. It's fun to be able to watch the airliner going across the map on the screen as well as being able to watch altitude, heading and speed.

Buzz

[geobuff]

Buzz:

Do you need to hold the 796 up to the window when flying commercial to get a GPS signal? Sitting in a tin can makes it tough.

I have panel mounted vents and don't think they are any better than a vent located elsewhere. I DID install window vents however. Turn them to catch the wind and you have a hurricane inside the cockpit. I usually use them in suction mode, which makes the panel vents more effective. The biggest problem I have is heat vents. My plane heat comes from a cowling around the muffler, and it sucks. There is one vent on the firewall. I freeze my butt when the temps are near freezing, and since I like to fly high, it is often below freeing in the spring and fall. I would not attempt to go north in the winter at any altitude. Those of you who have radiator heat are SO lucky. Tim also tells me his P2008 heater is great. Don't know if it is a radiator.

I really like the Dynon also. Seems like the screen is easier to read than the Garmin, but that may just be familiarity. Like you, I also have all the buttons. Yea, touch screens in bad weather are useless. Dynon tech support is great. They are always available to talk one-on-one. I call them so much all the guys know me. I should use the manual more, but it is so easy to just call them and get it over with. I installed a new 2020 compliant GPS antenna this week and called them to see if I needed stainless steel mounting bolts because of potential magnetic interference. They said no. I was worried that any ferris metal might effect performance. Do you have the new SV-GPS-2020 antenna? The old one works fine but is not 2020 compliant. Also, with the old one you get a bad report from FAA when you request a remote electronic evaluation of your system. I am tired of getting bad reports so decided to upgrade, even though I have a couple years before it is required.

[Cluemeister]

Here is a panel on a brand new, just shipped P2008.  So new it's currently on the boat from Italy. Unfortunately it is not my panel.

But it does show the new layout with side by side G3Xs, and the autopilot directly below the left hand panel.

[mackattack]

what is the square bit to the right of the right-hand G3X panel? Can't quite make it out in the picture.

[Cluemeister]

The rectangle is an open cubby. Not sure what it's for (phone storage?), maybe Mark can elaborate.

[Flocker]

Barf bag storage

[Cluemeister]

I actually took a close up picture of the barf bag dispenser when I was in Sebring in April.

[geobuff]

Tim and I figured out why his heater is so effective and mine sucks. We both get heat from a cowling around the muffler. BUT Tim has a ram-air intake directly to the outside, which pushes high volume air over the muffler cowling into the cabin. He can cook himself out of the cabin if he wants. On the other hand, my Astore has a scoop BEHIND the radiator for ram air. Only a small volume of air gets through the radiator for input into my muffler cowling, eventually trickling into the cabin under low pressure. Hence I freeze in the cold weather. Mine is poor engineering and his is great engineering. This is puzzling in that his plane is older and mine newer. Apparently the engineers were having a bad day when they designed the heat system for the Astore. Disappointing. Perhaps they corrected this in the newer models of the Astore.

MacAttack and CharlieT: Does your Astore have an outside ram-air opening for your heater?

[Cluemeister]

What's the knob above the cubby on this P2008 that is not on the demo P2008 in Sebring?