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Having flown both (in Europe), I decided to go for a K because I want to punch through the clouds asap. The J took too long for my liking to do this.

Short term ? No. I’m hoping that Aspen’s involvement in UAV might lead to some hardware for our dinosaurs. Avidyne could do with an increase in its portofolio too…

Agreed. I couldn’t do it without removing the Nav/strobe combo.

So no need to remove the strobes in order to get the recog light out ? Just the lens cover ?

Got it, thanks ! Standing-by for the 28V shipment

Looks very cool (wink wink), Brent ! What paperwork did you get with the lights ?

Does this mean we can all expect our invoice this week ? Just so I know to watch my spamfolder…

14V and 28V as well ?

Follow-up: apparently the TAS stops working as soon as the NGT gets a GPS-fix. Strange, huh ? Shop tries to contact L3 now in order to figure out how to proceed. Looks like a software issue ?

When is the next youtube episode on this project ?

Is Whelen still on track for delivering these end of this year ?

Nice one Philip ! I flew to Propriano last week. No hassle !

As a European aircraft owner I can’t emphasize this enough. Whatever beef you have with AOPA, it is NOTHING compared to not having a functional lobbygroup. You can’t make up all the stuff European politicians implement to make your GA-life worse.

What’s the correct LED alternative for the coffee-grinder belly beacon on an M20K ?

Can’t wait

Correct, just like the current halogen bulbs which are also 14V.

This is 6’8 in a K. It works if the turbulence isn’t too crazy.

That’s no rumor. You can check them out yourself at Oskosh.

Thank you James. I should be on your mailing list already

OSH 2022 still achievable for this project ?

Following… I have a heavy left wing that doesn’t get resolved with the aileron tab bending.

I love it ! Thanks

I’m not getting any messages. According to the ngt9000, everything is hunky-dory. But it doesn’t know that there are a ton of acft out there that it’s supposed to report. I asked the avionics shop to run the TAS check with the ramp test set (this was a couple of weeks ago. They never reported their findings, but I guess when there is an antenna problem it would have been clear by running this test. I’ll ask them how this test went…

Thanks for the replies guys. The TAS targets are definitely there. They were in contact with flight info and they got traffic information about my presence. You don’t receive traffic information from our FIS without a working transponder. I even have a playback from Flightradar 24 where you can see the conflicting traffic and the source of the info (multilateration). The range of TAS is limited vs ADS-B, but when I’m able to see the colour of the other pilot’s t-shirt, the NGT should at least acknowledge the presence of another acft. The unlock of TAS is also out of question. I was there when they performed it, and you really can’t get a green “pass” during the selftest when it’s not unlocked. I didn’t get the TAWS unlock and during selftest this is clearly shown in red. So I’d say the system’s logic works. I was thinking about shadowing of the active antenna, but then the target should show up at some bearing eventually. This doesn’t happen. Even targets above me don’t show up, so that can’t be due to shadowing, right ? There are a lot of mode a/c/s targets flying around in Europe, especially during sunny weekends. But yesterdag the ngt saw none, nada. All of the time the freq of the FIS was overloaded though. Doesn’t compute… I’m really suspecting the active antenna. It doesn’t perform. Is it possible the antenna passes the ngt self-test without receiving power ? Does the antenna need a separate circuit breaker or does it get its juice from the ngt ?

I got a NGT9000+ with the NY164 active antenna. The system detects all acft with ADS-B xpdrs, but it doesn’t see any mode A/C or mode S equipped acft. The TAS is definitely unlocked and passes the selftest. Could it be a problem with the antenna itself then ? I ruled out blind spots due to placement of the antenna because then at least some acft should show up sometimes. And yes: mode A/C/S is still a big deal here in Europe :-)