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Solid State Gyro
Is it possible to legally retrofit a panel-mount solid state AI to an
old aircraft? Seems to me this the shape of things to come in the gyro backup game. There appear to be pocket computer versions available also - any thoughts on using velcro to park one of these on the panel for emergency use? (Excuse me, hook and loop - musn't get sued for trademark infringement). |
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PaulH wrote: Is it possible to legally retrofit a panel-mount solid state AI to an old aircraft? Seems to me this the shape of things to come in the gyro backup game. I've been playing with one of the Analog solid state gyros. I want to build a small combination TC + "DG" instrument (no absolute heading, but you could think of it as automating a timed turn). A single gyro is just *barely* stable enough (with multi-point temperature calibration for each individual chip) to provide a heading reference alone. It's easily stable enough to provide a TC-like display. I think most of the commercial units you'll see will be 3-axis gyro/accelerometer combos (like Control Vision's system) which can self-calibrate (and for that matter automatically "erect" even without being perfectly square to the airframe) by using the accelerometers as a long-term stable reference. -- Ben Jackson http://www.ben.com/ |
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