gwcolwell Posted January 10, 2020 Report Posted January 10, 2020 Good Morning Everyone, Owner of a 2005 Ovation 2 w/G1000 non-WAAS. Like to upgrade to WAAS but local FBO indicates a possible problem caused by Mooney's on again/off again support structure/personnel issues. When time permits, please advise of accepted procedure to upgrade (and/or replace) my existing G1000 panel to a WAAS version. Thanks, gwcolwell Quote
MIm20c Posted January 10, 2020 Report Posted January 10, 2020 Unfortunately the Waas parts are very scarce right now. Start calling around to all the Mooney service centers to see if any have come available from salvaged planes etc. Not really a Mooney shutdown thing more of a Garmin not manufacturing thing. Quote
alextstone Posted January 10, 2020 Report Posted January 10, 2020 A while back, Maxwell had kits for install... Quote
GeeBee Posted January 10, 2020 Report Posted January 10, 2020 Have the exact same airplane, did it last August at Maxwell's. You want Mooney SB M20-305B, use option 2 (since you have an STec autopilot). Figure on 30 AMU when all finished. Don't know if Maxwell still has any kits left, but I would call. I would do it soon in case Mooney turns in their PC or TDCS. https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4147179/technical_documents/service_bulletins/M20_305B-1.pdf Quote
Robert C. Posted January 10, 2020 Report Posted January 10, 2020 What GeeBee said ^^^ I did mine about 2 years ago and paid about $31k for for the GIA63Ws and software upgrade for the S-Tec, and the GTX345R for ADS-B. As noted, the issue isn't Mooney but that Garmin has discontinued making the GIA63W GPS units. The newer models are unfortunately not backwards compatible. Also worth exploring is to check with people who understand/know this stuff whether you could get kits for Beech or Cessnas and then have a MSC use the appropriate cabling, s/w etc. for your Ovation. Of course those might be equally rare at this point. Good luck. Robert 1 Quote
Ibra Posted January 10, 2020 Report Posted January 10, 2020 You mean G1000 (not G100 to WAAS in the title), this one will take a lot of effort to get 3D https://www.digitalmatter.com/Devices/3G-GPS-Tracker-Devices/G100 I undertstand it can be done while swapping GAI63 non-wass units to GIA63W (in DA40/DA42), but not many of the latter are around pushing the cost a bit high Unless load of them go to sale if many people upgrading for other stuff like NXI? Quote
Danb Posted January 10, 2020 Report Posted January 10, 2020 As Alex mentioned I’d call Paul at Maxwells they will do there best to try and put a kit together for you, time isn’t on your side I’d act ASAP 1 Quote
carusoam Posted January 11, 2020 Report Posted January 11, 2020 House keeping for @gwcolwell... there is an edit button up by the title that is available to you as the writer of the title... Add another 0 for your G1000... +1 on contacting Paul aka PMax around here... Best regards, -a- Quote
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