Cost of Cockpit Instruments

On Sep 19, 9:14 pm, "Morgans" wrote:
"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in ...

Morgans wrote:

How about overhead to make all of this stuff, for a market of perhaps
2% of your Dells. Same with the designing of the software.

2%, surly you jest. Try 0.02%

chuckle Yep, that is probably more like it.

It's a catch 22. Market would probably increase dramatically if, say,
prices for electronics were cut in half. But as someone else pointed
out, it would have to be an industry-wide change in attitude, not a
little tweak here and there. Manufacturers would have to take it on
faith, for example, that if they were to make a reasonably-priced USB-
based OEM altimeter unit, it would find its place in an overall
system.

Those building experimental aircraft could lead the way by building an
entire system based on commodity components, as many as possible, and
maintaining a record of costs, etc. The resulting system would likely
not be something for mass market, but it would be a start.

-Le Chaud Lapin-