Kind souls of the sub... would you know if you can add an AeroCruze 100 autopilot to an existing installation that contains one Garmin G5 (configured as DG, not as attitude indicator), one G530W and the GAD29 module, so that it replaces the existing Piper Altimatic III autopilot?

The literature I'm seeing all seems to imply that the AeroCruze needs either two G5, or when talking to one G5, the G5 must be configured as attitude indicator, not as DG.

Thanks!

Can anyone tell me if Garmin is having any kind of major delays for some of their products? I'm about to undertake my first airplane avionics upgrade, and a local shop put me on the books, and I paid them $9,600 for a pair of G5s and a GPS 175 last October and they scheduled me to drop my Cessna off the first week of January. After the initial purchase I ended up buying a new Garmin audio panel and navcom through Sarasota avionics and had no issues getting them within a week.

I know most shops are booked up pretty bad right now, but this shop keeps bumping me back and is blaming it on the fact that Garmin hasn't shipped them the equipment yet. If that's the case I'm ok with it, but I'm starting to worry that I may be getting the runaround being that I'll go a couple months without hearing anything, and when I call they just say the Garmin still hasn't given them a ship date yet.

I work in a company that develops drones, and we are trying to implement a CB like solution for power distribution.

I came in contact with the ECBU from Astronics (Electronic Circuit Breaker Unit (ECBU) | Astronics), and they show in a diagram (below) that using this solution the amount of wiring is reduced. How so? Do you install multiple units across the aircraft, is that it?

Thank you!

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8 years in the Navy looking to move near Atlanta soon. Looking for any contacts, TIA!

Hello po! Any suggestions po kung saan okay mag OJT?

Currently have a certified plane with a single Garmin G3x touch certified display. Is it possible to add a second experimental G3x touch to the co-pilot side just to display all the information the primary g3x is displaying but in front of the co-pilot? Both people sitting in the front are pilots and it would be nice to have a second display on the right side for 2-3x less cost than having a certified one there. (Side note, this plane is registered in Canada but flies to the states)

I'll be joining the CANADIAN military this month as a Avionics Technician. My initial contract is for 5 years. My plan is to be assigned to a base that would allowed me to work on helicopters and/or airplanes, I'd rather not work on aircrafts with no civilian equivalent if possible.

The specific aircrafts I'm looking to work on are the Griffon helicopter (CH-146/BELL412 Civilian equivalent, this would be my first choice) and the Hercules airplane (C-130, this would be my second choice).

I'm interested in these aircrafts specifically because from what I see so far from glancing at job postings, these have the most opportunities if I'm able to obtain my AME-E and type certificate for it. Depending on what happens during the initial contract, I'd either agree to another contract with the military or look to use the Avionics experience I gained to purse civilian jobs and look to get my AME-E and type certificate for the military/civilian equivalent aircraft I work on.

Also to my knowledge, the military has a lot of contractors for the aircrafts so that means certain bases require a lot less technical work. I'm going to try and pursue a base with a focus on heavy maintenance or line maintenance as I think it would give me the best opportunity to actually learn hands on and do the job properly.

I'd like to know the thoughts, opinions and advice in regards to this plan I currently have. Is there anything I should keep in mind that I'm missing ? Pros and cons of doing heavy maintenance vs line maintenance ? Pros and cons of pursuing helicopter specialty vs aircraft specialty in today's market ?

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Hey! I'm currently in school to get my a&p certificates, but discovered that I'm pretty interested in avionics. I talked with one of the instructors and they recommended studying for and taking the grol and aet tests. I can't find much on the grol, and the aet doesn't have much info that's not behind a paywall, any advice would be awesome! My ideal situation would be starting as a&p and doing some avionics whenever I get the chance to build experience, is that a good idea?

These wx radar are in the antonov-124 and the 225 (now destroyed) . and i guess it's in more soviet made aicraft , idk if these are in Tupolev too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayPK9fAwDBU

I was in the military avionics flight line on the F-16’s and just wondering what companies/jobs can you get with that background without getting an A&P license. I know people say that military avionics experience there’s so many jobs you can get but the only job I know is to be an avionics technician as a civilian and get an A&P license is there any other jobs that hire prior avionics experience?

Adding a few breakers in line to old ones. Is it ok to just daisy chain the new breakers to each other with wire jumpers and ring terminals?

Can someone tell me about their journey on how they became an Avionics Technician? I'm interested in pursuing that career and it seems like a fun and exciting path.

Hello guys. Anyone has way to open file with .rtd extension download from engine FADEC ?

I remember once I saw a piece of software that would generate the baseband for nav signals - Glideslope, VOR, localizer. You could then hook your computers soundcard to the mod in on an ordinary signal generator and use that to test your avionics.

I can't find the software now, has anyone seen something like this recently?

Hello. I am 28years old and looking for a career change from my usual 9-5 retail job. I live in south Florida and there’s a vocational school, George T Baker, that offers an avionics technician program that has peaked my interest. I have absolutely zero experience and knowledge. Should I do it? What can I expect? Any resources before taking the course? Tips and tricks?

The FAA is hiring for Airways Transportation System Specialists. We maintain the equipment used for Air Traffic Control. There are many direct hire positions open on USAJobs right now.

The pay listed does not include locality increases. All these positions are G band which means after you get certs in your assigned systems you will get promoted to an H band (+8%)

If you have any questions I will check this account periodically feel free to leave a comment or DM.

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https://www.usajobs.gov/job/780511100#

For context, I was an comm/nav technician on F-18c from 2012-2017. I got out of the Marine Corps and have mostly worked in the diesel mechanic field and on some industrial equipment. I’ve been mulling around the idea of possibly going back to aviation, but I’m not sure of what all that would entail. Ideally, I would rather work on helicopters vs fixed wing aircraft, possibly in the medical/emergency side. Would this be difficult? I still have my GI Bill, but I have 0 idea as to whether I would need to go to a school for this, considering I haven’t touched avionics in 7 years and the platform I’m familiar with was fairly old. Thank you.

Hey everyone, I'm wanting to make some helpful content about aircraft maintenance, but I'm not sure where to start. I'm an A&P with about 18 years of experience in the aviation industry, including avionics, military contracting, drone R&D, and got my private pilot license a while back.

Was wondering if anyone has some input on things they need help with in the aircraft maintenance world.

• What's your biggest challenge with avionics in aircraft maintenance? Could be anything...where to go to school, how to find a job, how to do a specific task, what tools to use, etc.
• What is your biggest hope, dream, or desire with avionics?

Thanks in advance!

Hey! Is anyone out there using the HUD feature of GRT Avionics? I have a 7" sport EFIS installed using my Android phone (Fold5) and xReal Air Glasses. I absolutely love this concept but I find the implementation slightly lacking. I think the default focal point distance is 5m but with the Beam you can adjust the focal point. The problem is that the max distance you can adjust it to is only 10m.

I've reached out to the developers a couple months ago and they said they're still working on it. Not much communication but I still hopeful.

Does anyone have experience or luck using the Heads Up Display from GRT Avionics? Perhaps with a different set of AR glasses?

Hi folks,

I recently finished my homebuilt helicopter: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086428185291

In it I have MGL V16 radio integrated with MGL Discovery Lite EIFIS.

At low engine and rotor RPM, I can hear the tower just fine, but as I go to a 100% of RPM, the tower transmissions have too much interference to understand.

I can hear and talk to the co-pilot just fine - that tells me that the problem is likely with the antenna or the wiring from the antenna.

Did anyone have encountered a similar issue or have advice here?

The antenna is mounted under the tail boom, sitting on a rubber adapter that fills in the boom curvature, there are 3 screws that should provide grounding for the antenna's base.

I used all the wiring suggestions in the radio manual: https://www.mglavionics.co.za/Docs/V16%20manual.pdf

What would you do first here?

UPD: I went to the hangar today to follow up on all the suggestions here, to repair a non-working co-pilot PTT switch and to listen a bit more carefully the exact kind of distortions to give you guys a report on that. After fixing the PTT (it was an incorrectly inserted connectors), going through some settings (i did not change much) and checking the antenna wiring (which seemed fine), I started her up and got to 96% power. The radio actually worked very nicely, I was hearing tower nice and clear! I did radio check with the tower and it was loud and clear! Now, I am taking lessons in my ship and have not got to a solo yet, so I did not attempt to pick her up and test at 100% and hovering (which was the problem in the past), but my sense is that things seem to have improved.
My instructor is coming March 21st - I would test it in hover then and update more. Thanks to all for the suggestions!

Hey, I was wondering if anyone had experience interviewing for SpaceX internships and would like to provide some pointers as to how to prep/study up.

I'm an electrical engineering undergrad, and the position that I am interviewing for is the Falcon Avionics Core Engineering team in Hawthorne, CA. Any advice, either position specific or just general to SpaceX internships, is welcome!

I’ll be getting out of the Air Force in a little over a year and have started targeting jobs/companies/careers and I’m hoping to get a little advice.

I’ll be 29 y/o with 4 years experience in sales management before enlisting. I’ll have 6 years of advanced integrated avionics experience, 2 years at the craftsman level. I’m working on finishing my CCAF in avionics and have a rough plan to transfer the credits to and electrical engineering degree. I’m also working on getting my Airframe certification before getting out.

Does this sound like a good plan in your experience or should I be going a different route? I have found job listings in the $35-55/hr range. Is this a realistic wage based on my experience? Are there any companies that I should focus on that really want to develope folks. I’m looking for a great company that I can stay with until retirement and even move departments as I age.

Thanks in advance

Upon NAV startup I received this message from the GTN 750Xi, “Configuration module needs service”. I restarted the 750 and this message went away but then the 750 had issues connecting to the GTX 345 transponder “Transponder 1 is inoperative or connection to GTN is lost” and the 345 started giving error messages also. I checked the manuals for all the messages, and they all say the same thing “Contact Garmin Product Support”.

Has anyone seen this issue before, and if so, how did you resolve it?

Hello, I'm an avionics student and I'm already in my third year. I'm currently currently struggling with our thesis title and I thought of asking you guys since you have been sharpened through years of experience and expertise.

I would really like to hear your ideas on what is a good topic or what is a good, basic, budget friendly (problem -solving) thesis.

I know I would receive some backlash from this post but, I just wanted to have a good thesis that's never needed to be complicated but could save lives or change lives.

I would really appreciate any ideas, thank you so much!

How many hours of use has the ADTS in your hangar gotten in the last year?

I'm an engineer who works on test sets. I wanna know how much these things are used in the wild.

Some units take a long time to warm up to an optimal level. After waiting around, how long do you use the unit before you put it back? Is this a regular test or done sporadically?

Just looking for anecdotes.