With electronic guts and an analog display, it combines the best of both worlds. Second choice is Horizon’s P-1000, which has diagnostics, but needs a facelift.

By Joseph (Jeb) Burnside

If you’re like us, you’re flying around in something built during the last century but lusting after some of the panel-mounted goodies available in newer aircraft. While it’s easy enough to shoehorn in a color moving map and some digital radios, modernizing other areas of your panel isn’t. And that’s a shame, since much of the engine and systems instrumentation in older aircraft appears borrowed from a 1947 Buick.

But, as usual, the aftermarket has provided in the form of engine monitors, fuel flow instruments and a smattering of tachometers. The tach market is not widely populated, so if you want one, the choices are somewhat limited. Here’s a run-down on…