Battle of the Back-Ups

Volume 33
Number 2
February 2003

Are solid-state e-gyros good enough to bail you out of a partial panel jam? We think all of them perform admirably.

Garmin’s 196, left, uses GPS with WAAS to
ûdrive its panel display. Icarus microEFIS box,
ûcenter, has a solid state gyro package and
ûoutputs to a PDA. PCFlightSystem eGyro, fore-
ûground, displays attitude via a colored light
ûarray.

by Paul Bertorelli

Notes from a casual conversation with a late-career airline pilot on the subject of flying IFR: With a look of utter horror, our line pilot friend said “You actually fly a single-engine airplane in the clouds? On purpose?” He shook his head, reeling at the concept. …

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