WHO WANTS MY BUSINESS?
I found Larry Anglisano’s commentary, “Avionics: Just Give Buyers What they Want,” in the September 2021 issue of Aviation Consumer right on the mark. Avionics manufacturers do need to give buyers the products they want and support they expect. But then again, so do the distributors that sell the equipment.
Although my complaint isn’t directly related to the editorial, or aimed at the manufacturers, instead the third-party retailers that I thought wanted my business. I’m building a Velocity homebuilt and for the past three or four times at AirVenture I’ve been asking questions, studying, playing with and drooling over all of the gee whiz electronics out there. In the end, I decided on the Garmin G3X Touch system for many reasons—too many to list in one sitting. I spent a lot of time this past winter and spring laying out the electrical system and planning the panel layout and design. (I must say that Garmin’s G3X documentation is excellent—one of the reasons I went with their product line.) While doing the design work, I started to build my bill of materials.