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Panel Planner 101: Dynon in a Cessna

With an installation open to A&P/IA mechanics, Dynon’s SkyView HDX Certified suite for a Cessna Skyhawk is made easier with prefab hardware.

Larry Anglisano
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Edited By:

Omar Filipovic

That’s what the proposed final Dynon SkyView HDX certified integrated avionics and autopilot system will look like in the Cessna Skyhawk.

This month’s panel for planning is for a mid-1980s Cessna 172 equipped with a Garmin GNS 530W and GNS 430W, S-TEC single-axis autopilot and original round-gauge flight instruments. Its owner is ready to make the plunge into an all-glass, all-electric avionics suite and is sold on the Dynon SkyView HDX Certified suite because her experimental kit aircraft (she didn’t build it, but purchased it secondhand) has older Dynon gear.

After getting a thorough demo at Sun ‘n Fun, the proposed package includes removing all of the existing flight instruments, engine instruments (including fuel gauges), the S-TEC autopilot, Garmin GMA 340 autopilot, both Garmin navigators and the Mode S transponder. Since the aircraft lived overseas, it also needs a U.S. mandate-compliant ADS-B Out system, plus ADS-B In for receiving traffic and weather.

Larry Anglisano

Editor in Chief Larry Anglisano has been a staple at Aviation Consumer since 1995. An active land, sea and glider pilot, Larry has over 30 years’ experience as an avionics repairman and flight test pilot. He’s the editorial director overseeing sister publications Aviation Safety magazine, IFR magazine and is a regular contributor to KITPLANES magazine with his Avionics Bootcamp column.