1992 M20J Panel Upgrade / Advice

[Pinecone]

12 hours ago, Niko182 said:

It’s because your setup has an altitude range. Foreflight doesn’t have an altitude range set up so it will show all targets at the way up to 51000ft. The G3x is setup to probably show targets within 2000ft of your altitude. Pretty sure that can be adjusted in the settings, which is why in this case the target 1000ft above you showed up but not the 2 targets 4000ft and 4800ft below you.

This 

[gevertex]

Thanks, that is really helpful. I read through the manual looking for references to altitude and found a few interesting things.

FIS-B service is provided continuously, but ADS-R including TIS-B will only be broadcast by a GBT when an ADS-B participating aircraft is within the GBT’s defined service volume. In this case, a GBT will only rebroadcast TIS-B information relative to the ADS-B participating aircraft. Only traffic that is within 15 nm lateral and 3,500’ vertical of the ADS-B participating aircraft is provided in the broadcast. Non-participating traffic aircraft located farther than 15 nm laterally and 3,500’ vertically from the participating aircraft is are excluded from the information transmitted by the GBT.

I take this to mean that this traffic would not have been rebroadcast by ground stations, so the only way for my Sentry to see it would be Air to Air. But then I saw the below:

Full traffic services available for an ADS-B participating aircraft (ground linked TIS-B, FIS-B and ADS-R, and Air-to-Air ADS-B). If you are using the ADS-B receiver on a non-participating aircraft you may still see this when you are within the service area of any participating aircraft. As a non-participating aircraft you are only receiving TIS-B traffic information for traffic within 15 nm and 3,500’ of a participating aircraft.

My read on that is as an ADS-B participating aircraft I do not have the 3500' limitation.

I read the manual for the G3X touch and didn't find anything on configuring the traffic view to have a broader altitude restriction. Any tips for finding it?

[Pinecone]

On 8/12/2023 at 7:05 PM, gevertex said:

I read the manual for the G3X touch and didn't find anything on configuring the traffic view to have a broader altitude restriction. Any tips for finding it?

Don't have my G3X yet, but on the other Garmin things I have, go to the Traffic page, then Menu.  And it will give you choices of what to show.  

I like that it does not show traffic that is not close to my altitude, but would like it if I could pick that offset.

It does clutter the screen to show all that traffic that is 20,000 feet above me.  Or 10,000 below me (I like having a turbo).

[gevertex]

1 hour ago, Pinecone said:

Don't have my G3X yet, but on the other Garmin things I have, go to the Traffic page, then Menu.  And it will give you choices of what to show.  

I like that it does not show traffic that is not close to my altitude, but would like it if I could pick that offset.

It does clutter the screen to show all that traffic that is 20,000 feet above me.  Or 10,000 below me (I like having a turbo).

I'll check this week when I go flying.

[gevertex]

Found it!

 

[Pinecone]

Interesting.  On the AERA 760, Unrestricted is ALL traffic.  Normal is the same as the G3X, butr Above and Below are 2,700 ro 9,000 feet difference.  Garmin Pilot is the same.

The GNS-650 is the same as the AERO 760 (Unresitricted is all traffic), except 9,900 feet in Above or Below like the G3X.

Nothing like consistancy.

 

[gevertex]

2 hours ago, Pinecone said:

Interesting.  On the AERA 760, Unrestricted is ALL traffic.  Normal is the same as the G3X, butr Above and Below are 2,700 ro 9,000 feet difference.  Garmin Pilot is the same.

The GNS-650 is the same as the AERO 760 (Unresitricted is all traffic), except 9,900 feet in Above or Below like the G3X.

Nothing like consistancy.

 

I set it to unrestricted for the flight this morning, seemed to work great after that. No missing traffic that I could detect. Now to figure out this AOA

[Kevintr]

Love the panel, would you mind share the cost with us? And what would you do differently? 

[Fly Boomer]

3 hours ago, Kevintr said:

Love the panel, would you mind share the cost with us? And what would you do differently? 

Welcome to MooneySpace.

[gevertex]

17 hours ago, Kevintr said:

Love the panel, would you mind share the cost with us? And what would you do differently? 

Get very comfortable with the airplane before putting in a new panel. The complexity of verifying everything was working properly was compounded for me significantly because I did not know what the airplane's normal baseline was for various sensors. I also had a new engine, so this complicated things further.

I love the layout, it's perfect. I spent a lot of time figuring out where everything should go and I don't have any regrets there. I don't miss the lack of a nav radio at all. It'd be nice to have a backup to GPS, but worst case I can still take radar vectors.

[TheBearFlies]

Just did a full panel this year on my Mooneysaurus. Big smiles every time I fly. Here is the link. 

 

[gevertex]

On 4/11/2023 at 12:18 AM, carusoam said:

Old airplane smell…

Don’t fall for it…

Is usually a continuous drip of fuel collecting under the rug…

Every weekend my M20C was talking to me…

airing her out took a few minutes… then we would load the plane.

The next weekend we would repeat the process…

Somebody moved the rug, and exposed the blue stains…!

New rug, new seals, new rubber connectors followed…

Old plane smell magically went away.

Best regards,

-a-

I need to dig deeper on this one. The puddle turned out to be water, but I do still get a smell if the right fuel tank is filled to top and sits over night or more. I am due for a carpet replacement, maybe we will find something then.

[gevertex]

On 8/21/2023 at 4:54 PM, TheBearFlies said:

Just did a full panel this year on my Mooneysaurus. Big smiles every time I fly. Here is the link. 

 

Very nice!

[gevertex]

I wonder if anyone can help me with this. I am having trouble getting my AOA calibrated properly. When I finish calibrating it, I get a high AOA warning on climb and no indication on landing which I find odd. I pulled the data from the engine monitor (yes it logs AOA and IAS!!!), and the AOA reading doesn't look accurate to me, I would expect AOA to be higher during landing than during climb (but it doesn't appear to be!). Any thoughts?