May be trash can it?
pczar3 said:
I thought if anyone could steer me in the right direction it would be this group! Thanks in advance for your help. Paul Czarapata
RV-6A N694BP reserved
I have to make some assumeptions and not sure what your budget, mission (VFR/IFR) and preferences are but here is my advice.
Not sure if you are committed to the OLD HSI, but you may end up spending a small fortune to get it repaired and find it's time to next failure very short or it may never really perform very well again, ever.
I had a bunch of old gyros, T&B, AI, DG, which I had overhauled. These where old instruments and it was not cheap to put new bearings in them and have them overhauled. I found they where marginally stable after having them worked on. I had the T&B in 3 times and AI in at least twice to get it close to working OK.
My suggestion is consider biting the bullet and look at the
GRT EFIS ($6,000) or the
BMA G4 ($4,000), both have HSI compass rose displays and accept nav input from a VOR/LOC/GS and of course GPS. My feeling is you don't need a DG or HSI.
Many handheld GPS have a quasi-HSI type display if that is what you are comfortable with, but think you will soon forget the HSI display format once you get accustomed to the EFIS displays. I assume you plan on flying IFR?
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Dynon EFIS ($2,200) is bargain priced as well but they are only flight instruments, attitude, direction, airspeed, altitude, vsi and so on. They don't have a bootstrap to nav data.
The nice part of all these electronic instruments is you will not trash them when you do aerobatics. I like to do rolls and loops. What is the wisdom of trashing your mechanical gyros doing Acro and than launching into sold IMC?
