Electronic horizon?

If Bumper is correct and the Garmin 196 GPS driven
attitude display can be used for a emergency cloud
descent then presumably the turning glider on a Winpilot
screen will give the same information, or will it ????

David Smith

At 06:06 05 September 2005, Bumper wrote:
Tom,

The Trutrac needs only 3 seconds from switch-on to
providing good info. It
doesn't matter if it's level or cranked over in a steep
turn. Really pretty
amazing and nothing at all like turning on a mechanical
needle and ball or
turn coordinator and then waiting for it to erect properly
if already in a
turn.

Since I have both a Garmin 196 and Trutrack in the
ASH26E, I've compared
them to each other. Either will keep an experienced
pilot right side up in
IMC, or allow one to do a 180 etc, I prefer the display
on Trutrack by a
slight margin as the response is a bit faster than
Garmin's panel page.

Both are good to have, as there's nothing wrong with
redundancy. If I had to
pick one, it would be the Garmin, even though the display
is slower. The
Garmin gives more data, including ground speed. Good
to have if the pitot
ices up. 'Course if that happened, one would probably
have other concerns
too.

bumper


'Tom' wrote in message
roups.com...
Just be sure to have your T&B on ALL of the time;
you will not have
time to turn it on when you need it.

I prefer an aviation GPS with an HSI display.

Tom