HSI Recommendation?

I have been informed that my HSI is precessing fairly rapidly. I'll
check it out in the air soon (plane is in annual). It's a Century
NSD-360A non-slaved unit. A refurbished unit will cost about $2700. Does
anyone have any recommendations for a replacement? The Sandel SN3500
looks nice, but expensive. The airplane is a 1974 Cessna Cardinal RG.
I'm about to start IFR flight training so this is fairly important..



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I have been informed that my HSI is precessing fairly rapidly. I'll
check it out in the air soon (plane is in annual). It's a Century
NSD-360A non-slaved unit. A refurbished unit will cost about $2700. Does
anyone have any recommendations for a replacement? The Sandel SN3500
looks nice, but expensive. The airplane is a 1974 Cessna Cardinal RG.
I'm about to start IFR flight training so this is fairly important..

When my HSI needed an overhaul last year I put in a Sandel 3500 instead.
It is expensive, but it gives you so much information that once you get
used to it you won't want to fly an airplane without one.

--
Ken Reed
M20M, N9124X

On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:54:22 GMT, Ken Reed wrote:

When my HSI needed an overhaul last year I put in a Sandel 3500 instead.
It is expensive, but it gives you so much information that once you get
used to it you won't want to fly an airplane without one.

Ken, what other equipment have you hooked up to it? XM weather, traffic
information, gps, adf, dme... ?



randall g =%^) PPASEL+Night 1974 Cardinal RG
http://www.telemark.net/randallg
Lots of aerial photographs of British Columbia at:
http://www.telemark.net/randallg/photos.htm
Vancouver's famous Kat Kam: http://www.katkam.ca

Sounds like you are in heat for an upgrade wihich will make $2700 seem
cheap!!

If you want to repair the unit, I"d suggest Porter Strait in Tulsa.
They will repair the thing without doing an overhaul. They are
very reasonable on repairs and in my experience do the highest
quaity work.

Bill Hale Loveland CO
Not connected other than as a satisfied customer.



On Jun 9, 4:33 pm, randall g wrote:
I have been informed that my HSI is precessing fairly rapidly. I'll
check it out in the air soon (plane is in annual). It's a Century
NSD-360A non-slaved unit. A refurbished unit will cost about $2700. Does
anyone have any recommendations for a replacement? The Sandel SN3500
looks nice, but expensive. The airplane is a 1974 Cessna Cardinal RG.
I'm about to start IFR flight training so this is fairly important..

randall g =%^) PPASEL+Night 1974 Cardinal RGhttp://www.telemark.net/randallg
Lots of aerial photographs of British Columbia at:http://www.telemark.net/randallg/photos.htm
Vancouver's famous Kat Kam:http://www.katkam.ca

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" wrote in message
ups.com...
Sounds like you are in heat for an upgrade wihich will make $2700 seem
cheap!!

One might hope so, especially an upgrade that gives such an improvement in
SA.

On the same point, a repair gives him a 30 year-old, repaired, obsolete...


If you want to repair the unit, I"d suggest Porter Strait in Tulsa.
They will repair the thing without doing an overhaul. They are
very reasonable on repairs and in my experience do the highest
quaity work.

Bill Hale Loveland CO
Not connected other than as a satisfied customer.



On Jun 9, 4:33 pm, randall g wrote:
I have been informed that my HSI is precessing fairly rapidly. I'll
check it out in the air soon (plane is in annual). It's a Century
NSD-360A non-slaved unit. A refurbished unit will cost about $2700. Does
anyone have any recommendations for a replacement? The Sandel SN3500
looks nice, but expensive. The airplane is a 1974 Cessna Cardinal RG.
I'm about to start IFR flight training so this is fairly important..

randall g =%^) PPASEL+Night 1974 Cardinal
RGhttp://www.telemark.net/randallg
Lots of aerial photographs of British Columbia
at:http://www.telemark.net/randallg/photos.htm
Vancouver's famous Kat Kam:http://www.katkam.ca

o

When my HSI needed an overhaul last year I put in a Sandel 3500 instead.
It is expensive, but it gives you so much information that once you get
used to it you won't want to fly an airplane without one.

Ken, what other equipment have you hooked up to it? XM weather, traffic
information, gps, adf, dme... ?

I already had a Garmin 396 so I had weather and to add it to the 3500
didn't make financial sense. I don't have traffic.

I know the Sandel is hooked into the Garmin 430, the #1 NAV (with VOR,
ILS & glideslope) and ADF & DME. Of course it also has heading bug, etc.
I don't remember if there's anything else hooked up to it.

While I was having work done, I had my avionics guy reposition my TKS
controls to the bottom of the avionics stack and had him slave the
Garmin 396 to the Garmin 430; also I had the 396 hard wired for power
and ran the 396 audio through the audio panel.

--
Ken Reed
M20M, N9124X

"randall g" wrote in message
...
I have been informed that my HSI is precessing fairly rapidly. I'll
check it out in the air soon (plane is in annual). It's a Century
NSD-360A non-slaved unit. A refurbished unit will cost about $2700. Does
anyone have any recommendations for a replacement? The Sandel SN3500
looks nice, but expensive. The airplane is a 1974 Cessna Cardinal RG.
I'm about to start IFR flight training so this is fairly important..



randall g =%^) PPASEL+Night 1974 Cardinal RG
http://www.telemark.net/randallg
Lots of aerial photographs of British Columbia at:
http://www.telemark.net/randallg/photos.htm
Vancouver's famous Kat Kam: http://www.katkam.ca


You could look for a used EHSI like Kings ED462. I have one available but it
is 24 volt, just pulled from a P-210. With the Signal Generator(SG465), rate
gyro(C14A), and control box(CP468), you would only be into it about 4.5
AMU's. That is probably half of a Sandel, and here is what the P210 pilot
said after his change to a Sandel:

The reason I purchased the Sandel is because the Knig EHSI just wasn't
compatible with the rest of the avionics package. I liked the EHSI so much
and the Sandel is close to it in terms of performance. I say close, but the
EHSI has more features and I like it better.

Installation probably cost about $1,000. My Sandel is the 3 1/2 inch unit.
They also have a 4 or 4 1/2" unit for $11,000. The 3 1/2 inch unit is fine
for me and I haven't had any problems using it.

You are correct that the components listed would provide a complete
installation.

The Sandel is far superior to the steam HSI. If overlays GPS, DME, ADF, VOR
1 and 2 on the HSI with a push button.

The EHIS goes several steps beyond and provides winds aloft direction and
speed and a few more incidentals.

If I could have kept the King EHSI with the new avionics, I would have. In
fact, I intended to, but it wasn't compatible with the other equipment that
I chose.


Al G