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dedicated to testing and business travel. Working in partnership,
AFS’s next step is integrating an autopilot version of TruTrak’s Gemini
PFD, which offers another layer of capability and safety.
Mike Patey – Lancair Super Legacy
Flying for a bit more than a decade, Mike Patey of Spanish Fork,
Utah, which is south of Salt Lake City and Provo, has owned roughly
two dozen aircraft, starting with the Cessna 172 he bought with his
twin brother, Mark. Stepping through them, it’s clear that he has firsthand experience with everything from a three-screen Garmin G900 in
the Epic LT he owned and the Avidyne system in his Piper Meridian to
the Chelton system that used to be in his twin-turbo IO-550-powered
Super Legacy, a kit produced by Lancair International.
His favorite is the new three-screen Garmin G3X system in the twoseat side-by-side Super Legacy, because most operations require a
single entry. “Almost every other panel I’ve had, you end up doing double entry on a lot of things,” Patey said. Calling the capabilities and
features on the G3X “just unbelievable,” system integration is what sold
him, “when you load it in one location and it auto-fills everywhere else.”
Avionics Systems of Leesburg, Va., built the original panel, which
included left and right Chelton PFDs separated by Garmin’s CNX80
and MX20, and it built its successor. The three G3Xs are complete
with terrain, synthetic vision, a full library of geo-referenced charts,
and XM weather and radio. They are fully integrated with the touchscreen GTN 750 and 650 and the remote-mounted GMA35 stereo
audio panel, GTX23ES transponder with ADS-B Out, GTS800 traffic
system and TruTrak Flight Systems GX autopilot.
Patey prefers three smaller screens over two or three larger ones.
“Sure, a 10-inch wide horizon is nice, but 4 inches is more than ample,” he said. Logging 600 to 700 hours a year, much of it hard IFR in
pursuit of his business in medical sales, he usually takes the Legacy
because he doesn’t have to flip screen pages. “I can shoot an approach to minimums and never have to switch a page to see traffic or
terrain,” he said. “So my workload is gone. I don’t have to hunt and
punch, and push and twist and click. It is the easiest, greatest panel
I’ve ever had, bar none.”
And it’s fast. “Our true airspeed was 295 knots,” said Patey’s brother, Mark, of the three-hour trip to Oshkosh, Wis., from Utah, flying at
19,000 feet on oxygen. To easily monitor his saturation and heart rate,
Patey mounted the CO Guardian sensor and readout just above the
throttle. To further simplify his workload, he arranged all switches in
order of operation and grouped them by mandatory and optional uses.
Separate gated switches control the electronic ignition. There is no
key for the Legacy, because Patey doesn’t like passing through one
ignition circuit to get to the other.
And it has no steam-gauge backups. “One hundred percent of my
panel failures have been my gyros and vacuums,” he said. A Dynon
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Pilot's Guide to Avionics 2013-2014

From the Publisher
Interested in AEA Membership?
AEA Staff/Board of Directors
New Avionics Products for 2013
What's Up With Backup Instruments?
Going Glass
Before & After
Aircraft as Antenna Farm
Cockpit Innovations
Understanding Autopilot Upgrades
ADS-B Circa 2013
Portable Powerhouses, GPS and VHF
Minimal Panels
NextGen Status Report
Repair Stations
Manufacturers/Distributors
Affiliates/Index
AEA Member Company Index
Advertiser Index
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Pilot's Guide to Avionics 2013-2014 - Minimal Panels
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