On 2/17/2012 8:58 PM, Sean Fidler wrote:
Why do light sport aircraft have gyro's?

Dunno - pretty?

Why do NON IFR legal aircraft have gyro's? Why waste the money? Do
they have to go to the FISDO and get letters do install them?

Dunno - pretty? Lots of them probably just stick them in the panel if
the plane is experimentally registered no FSDO or letters involved.

Why do soaring instrument manufacturers install gyro's and associated
AH software in their products? Cause they are pretty?

As you can tell by now, I'm on board with the "pretty" idea! But also,
it's because it is so cheap and easy to add that feature when you have
all the sensors you need just to make a top end vario.

Same thing as cell phones - 15 years ago, they were just phones, but now
they add GPS, G sensors, magnetometers, MEMS for much less than that 15
year old cell phone cost to make. And so, we now have these amazing
sensor platforms in our pocket.

An AH in every instrument trend is very new - a couple years ago, they
weren't there.

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