Flarm installation in a Duo Discus

Op donderdag 5 september 2013 05:01:59 UTC+2 schreef Juanman:
Anyone have experience installing a PowerFLARM in a Duo? We're thinking of putting the brick in the rear panel and antennas on top of the front panel, which may need some antenna extension cables. The display will probably be the rectangular one.


I installed a PowerFlarm core (IGC/ENL) in my DuoDiscusXT in April this year with 2 Butterfly square displays.
The PowerFlarm core is beneath the cover of the rear instrument panel with the RF antenna currently on the righthand side of this cover and the ADS-B antenna on the lefthand side.
This temporary installation already gives a satisfactory PowerFlarm Radio Range Analysis
See https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...arm-range2.png

I'm planning to put the RF antenna on a higher position on the rear instrument panel and also install a 2nd RF antenna for better reception.

There is an issue with the Butterfly square display that is giving non essential information (a large red Butterfly logo) when PowerFlarm is working OK but is not receiving traffic within range.
See https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...-fwd-panel.jpg and https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...rear-panel.jpg
I think that displaying big red logo should be avoided in any cockpit under normal flight conditions.
See also my other posting on this subject.