StratusESG Installed!

[Guitarmaster]

Just got the stratus installed.  Took it for a short flight and LOTS of traffic showed up.  Very cool.

I have to do the validation flight for the rebate.  That will probably happen this weekend.

So far, I like it!

[Mooneymite]

Congratulations!

What are you using to display that traffic?

[Guitarmaster]

iPad air mounted on the yoke with Foreflight.

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[amillet]

Do you have an external antenna?  I mount mine on the back window behind my head.  Yours is out of the way

[Guitarmaster]

Do you have an external antenna?  I mount mine on the back window behind my head.  Yours is out of the way

Yes, the ESG comes with external antennas. The GPS antenna is new. The ADS-b uses the transponder antenna.

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[Hector]

Very cool! I'm leaning heavily towards this solution. Would you mind sharing rough installation cost?

[Guitarmaster]

1 hour ago, Hector said:

Very cool! I'm leaning heavily towards this solution. Would you mind sharing rough installation cost?

Mine was 2.7AMU.  There was quite a bit of moving things around and he had to fix a pitot/static leak.  Included was a P/S IFR check.

Just to install the Stratus should be around 2 AMU i would think.

[Guitarmaster]

Did the validation flight today.  She passed with "flying" colors.  Afterward, i went to claim my rebate....  

Why am I not surprised.... :/

Brought to you by the same folks that administer the Obamacare website.   

[cloud116]

I also just had one installed. Works great. Couldn't believe all the traffic at University of North Dakota. In hindsight, though, I should not have mounted the Stratus ESG in the same place I had my Garmin 327, which is just above the throttle quadrant of my '75F. The keys on the Stratus ESG stick out quite a bit further than those of the 327. Just about every flight I manage to bump a key when I use the throttle, prop, or mixture, which messes up the squawk code. I now make sure I keep my written clearance handy.

On another note, at the same time I had installed a Flightstream 210. Holy cow does that save time. For the most part I use preferred routes via the ForeFlight flight planning tool and use the 210 to send them to my 430. Very impressive.