1976 M20F Panel Upgrade

[Yetti]

40 minutes ago, jerrodmonaghan said:

So after some great advice I’ve decided to take the cheapest path presented and have set some goals. Once I have 50 hours logged using a yoke mounted system I’ll make the final decision as to move on to another plane or simply keep what I have and go all in. I’ll do a 100% new panel if I do anything at all at that time. Like many of you.... praying an AP system will be available.

I ordered a pair of King 170B radios to replace the pair I have. Fingers crossed the radios will correct the VOR and ILS heads that are also not working. I also ordered a Sky Beacon Wing Tip solution and already have a Stratus and Foreflight for the yoke. I have a brand new PMA450B in a box ready for install as well. Once I know if the radios fix some of my other bugs I’ll post my results. Thanks again to you all!


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Interesting enough the people that put 40K into their panels then pretty much fly with the tablet.   If I was designing airplane stuff their would be a GPS receiver and Sensors that hook to a WIFI hub  that all just push to a couple of tablets.

[59Moonster]

On 8/23/2019 at 11:19 PM, carusoam said:

grim reaper’s shoppe

Who is this grim reaper you speak of?

[MIm20c]

1 hour ago, jerrodmonaghan said:

I ordered a pair of King 170B radios to replace the pair I have. Fingers crossed the radios will correct the VOR and ILS heads that are also not working. I also ordered a Sky Beacon Wing Tip solution and already have a Stratus and Foreflight for the yoke. I have a brand new PMA450B in a box ready for install as well. Once I know if the radios fix some of my other bugs I’ll post my results. Thanks again to you all!

Id leave the 450 in the box until you put in a new gps/com. 

[Greg Ellis]

50 minutes ago, Rinj said:

Who is this grim reaper you speak of?

I believe they are speaking of Alan Fox.  He salvages parts from Mooneys for re-sale.  Don't let him near your wood winged A-model.  He has been know to use a chainsaw!!

[jerrodmonaghan]

Lol... Alan was my first phone call last week! Thanks again to him.


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[the_elkhartian]

@jerrodmonaghan you're almost a year in to this plan....I'm curious how it has worked for you?

[Schinderhannes]

On 8/23/2019 at 7:19 AM, gsxrpilot said:

Yes! Whatever you do, don't pay retail. 

Mr. Fox,
Barnstormers
@AvionicsSource
Beechtalk
Ebay

There are ways to do it cheaper...

Along those lines for less than $20K you could get a panel like this.  

[RobertGary1]

[RobertGary1]

On 8/23/2019 at 7:09 PM, McMooney said:

hey, that's about where I started with my e,  well I had ADSB.

hmm, If I had to do all over again and hadn't had adsb.

garmin  375  -- adsb, lpv

garmin 255  -- awesome comm/ils/vor, 

, and 1 g5.     -- new cdi is 2000$  might as well get the g5 -- but it cost way more to install.

i'd guess in the ball park of 20k.

 

 

 

Similar to what I did except gi-275’s now (the G5 is the old generation). $35k. 
 

-Robert 

[RobertGary1]

On 8/27/2019 at 5:23 AM, Yetti said:

Interesting enough the people that put 40K into their panels then pretty much fly with the tablet.   If I was designing airplane stuff their would be a GPS receiver and Sensors that hook to a WIFI hub  that all just push to a couple of tablets.

It’s Bluetooth but that’s basically how it works. All the sensors feed into my gnx 375 and then Bluetooth to display on my iPad. 
 

-Robert