Looks cool!

[Mcstealth]

https://shop.levil.com/collections/all-products/products/bom?gclid=CjwKCAjwwab7BRBAEiwAapqpTAfoGYNORuViihUSA-LIlAGyNT6yN4RQCd2MpDLxnM8Ak-Mg_HNOhhoCInUQAvD_BwE

 

For you guys (and Gals) with way more experience than I, what do you make of this avionics back up device?

Click the video a little down on the page. 

Edited September 23, 2020 by Mcstealth

[toto]

That's really very clever. 

[Eight8Victor]

I met the owner of the company when I first bought my Mooney and was having it annualed down in Sanford, Fl. Ruben is a brilliant guy and super nice with a great family. They left Venezuela after the Marxist take over and are living the American dream. Good people.

[Mcstealth]

9 minutes ago, Eight8Victor said:

I met the owner of the company when I first bought my Mooney and was having it annualed down in Sanford, Fl. Ruben is a brilliant guy and super nice with a great family. They left Venezuela after the Marxist take over and are living the American dream. Good people.

Double cool!

[Mcstealth]

Sort of TBMish with its pod in the wing, if you are the imaginative type. haha

[carusoam]

The iLevil guys have some interesting items...

This looks like an updated version of the BOM...

Low cost, all inclusive, connected to the iPad...

Best regards,

-a-

[Unit74]

That exposed antenna connection gives me some concern. Excellent point of failure from water intrusion and incidental bumps from handling/preflight. Lots of parasitic drag in the mounting. 
 

Can’t say I’d want it in its current form. And having multiple planes, with various AHRS/ADSB equipment installed, I have not had or heard of any significant problems that necessitated this. Other than the fly-in discussion whilst the casual pilot-lean is performed on your plane, I don’t see the the practicality over the current fleet of portables. But heck, sure makes a Vashon look like a TMB, don’t it? 

[Greg Ellis]

I am all for the ingenuity and inventiveness of these small companies.  Without them things would not progress like they do.  However, I am not sure I would want this hanging off my airplane.  Most of what it gives you can be found in other cockpit devices including portable devices.  The website is slightly mis-leading by saying you get real-time weather in the cockpit from the ADS-B.  Well, as we all know there is such a delay with ADS-B that it is not real time.  Real time can only be had with on board radar and/or stormscope, etc...

But I do applaud the ingenuity and the story behind the owner of the company.

[Greg Ellis]

When all this ADS-B out was first getting started I thought I remembered this company as one trying to do ADS-B out.  I think they were going to do it for experimental and they were one of the early ones doing it.  I guess that changed or I am wrong.  With me, more likely the latter.

[steingar]

Not putting stuff on my wing.  Stuff causes drag.  Drag makes my Mooney go slower.  Didn't buy a Mooney to go slow.

Besides, I have the sneaking felling the FAA might object just a might to use bolting non certificated stuff to our certificated airframes.