"kmh1" wrote

With the good availability of boxes to do flight/engine/nav display, the
last remaining cause of untidyness on the panel is the avionics. At the
compact end of the scale many com radio's have low output and the
intercoms are awful. At the other end of the scale the units are large and
heavy.

We need a compact avionics box, to match our other boxes, that
incorporates audio control, intercom, com (with listen on sby frq), and
transponder.

Unless there's some technical reason they can't go together?

I don't know about you, but in choices of home electronics, I have found it
to be a big mistake to get too many units all combined into one box.

When one part of it goes tits up, there is the problem of what to do with
all of the other stuff that still works.

I know with home electronics nowadays, they are not economical to fix, where
with avionics, they usually are worth repairing.

When one part of an "all inclusive avionics box" finally is not economical
to repair, that means you have a bunch of other functioning items that have
suddenly become useless, and will all have to be replaced to get the one
broken item replaced, which means a lot of value gets tossed out, and a lot
of money will have to be spent to get all of the previously working items
replaced.

I'm basically a tightwad, and hate to toss out a bunch of functioning stuff,
just because one part of it is broken. I would rather stick to keeping
items separate.

It _would_ be nice to see an economical package that is compact and light,
and modular in design, so that you could add functions as desired, and
replace items as needed, and still keep it all neat, easy to read, and easy
to replace.
--
Jim in NC