New Airplane

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There is one of those nice new airplanes sitting on the ramp in Murfreesboro, TN, For Good. Why do I say that? Because as the owner was taxiing to a parking spot, he was side-tracked trying to avoid the parked airplane. But little did he know that there was a firm building closer to him than the airplane that he struck.

There isn't a dirty spot at all on the airplane and now it is unairworthy.

The airplane looks ssswwwweeetttt until you look at the wingtip.
 
ricecakecm said:
Slick. I kind of miss flying the Meridian. Although I don't miss flying passengers in it. I flew both the Meggitt and Avidyne panels. Neither of them were that great.

I flew PC-12's with synthetic vision (Universal system). Never was that impressed with it. Of course, in the midwest, you look like you're flying over a golf course for the most part. Maybe the Garmin system is better. Does it show obstacles as well as terrain?
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The Meggitt was a really good panel for a plane built in the late 90s/early 2000s. I liked the Avidye, but it did have its problems. I played with the PC-12 for an hour one day and did not find it as awesome as I had hoped it would be. This G1000 system is just amazing though. Yes it shows obstacles and terrain, as well as traffic and airports on the PFD.

Does that system have the boxes pop up for instrument approaches that you fly through?
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Yes it does, here is a photo from today:

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When you say We, who is we?
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The company I fly for.

No prop control, some kind of FADEC?
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The govener is set to maintain 2000rpm at all times.

When you descend around mountains, do the moutains or hills actually appear to "pop up" or is it flat like in those pics?
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Yes they do.



Thanks for the comments,

Alex.
 
Citationkid said:
The Meggitt was a really good panel for a plane built in the late 90s/early 2000s. I liked the Avidye, but it did have its problems. I played with the PC-12 for an hour one day and did not find it as awesome as I had hoped it would be. This G1000 system is just amazing though. Yes it shows obstacles and terrain, as well as traffic and airports on the PFD.
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Did you fly a late model PC-12 or a pre-2007 model? The later models had some changes to the flight controls to make them much lighter. The older PC12s weren't that much fun to fly (really heavy controls), but you could do some amazing things with them.
 
SoonerAv8r said:
And a VERY new Meridian at that. I'm glad to see Piper moving away from the Avidyne system, it has problems. I was hoping to get to move from the Matrix to a Meridian but got this instead. Life sucks:sarcasm:
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The avionics package in the PC-12/47e sucks. Its just not user friendly, and not right for the airplane. I've never flown behind the G1000, but I am guessing it would have been a better fit.

Nice pics Alex, looks like a very sweet ride.
 
ricecakecm said:
Did you fly a late model PC-12 or a pre-2007 model? The later models had some changes to the flight controls to make them much lighter. The older PC12s weren't that much fun to fly (really heavy controls), but you could do some amazing things with them.
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I worded my statement wrong. I love the PC-12 and find it to be an awesome airplane. I wanted my old company to get one really bad. I meant to say I did not find the new avionics package to be as nice as I expected.

Alex.
 
GED-ORF-GED. Sounds like a great training flight to me.

PS, I gotta teach you about the manual modes on your camera :p
 
Alex -

Awesome photos. I'm assuming you can declutter the PFD's "highway in the sky?" I recall Gulfstream nixing the boxes in their SVS package after realizing that most professional pilots would find it more annoying and more imprecise than following needles (I agree). I'm sure there's a use for it sometimes, so excuse my short-sightedness.

Regardless, the airplane looks amazing and the SVS looks hella-cool (without the boxes:)).

J.
 
C150J said:
Alex -

Awesome photos. I'm assuming you can declutter the PFD's "highway in the sky?" I recall Gulfstream nixing the boxes in their SVS package after realizing that most professional pilots would find it more annoying and more imprecise than following needles (I agree). I'm sure there's a use for it sometimes, so excuse my short-sightedness.

Regardless, the airplane looks amazing and the SVS looks hella-cool (without the boxes:)).

J.
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Yes you can turn it off. The boxes are redundant up high, but down low they are amazing. All you have to do is keep the green airplane inside of the box and the needles stay perfectly centered. I don't know, maybe I'm not very professional, but I find the highway in the sky part to be awesome. The Meridian we have coming in October will hopefully have the EVS in addition to the SVS.

Alex.
 
Interesting! When you went missed, I think I saw boxes at a higher altitude on the SVS... is that right? Maybe when you reach the missed approach altitude? It looks like a neat feature now that I see it in action. The only thing I truly worry about is student pilots becoming too fixated in the panel during VMC and over controlling the aircraft to get it perfectly inside the boxes.

It looks like it would be extremely reassuring when shooting a hard IMC approach and going missed in mountainous terrain, though! When shooting a non-precision approach, does it provide boxes that allow for a stabilized approach?


Thanks for posting the video!
J.
 
C150J said:
Interesting! When you went missed, I think I saw boxes at a higher altitude on the SVS... is that right? Maybe when you reach the missed approach altitude? It looks like a neat feature now that I see it in action.
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Yes, we had the altitude selector set for 2,000' so when we went missed the boxes were set at 2000 feet.

When shooting a non-precision approach, does it provide boxes that allow for a stabilized approach?
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It does for all GPS approaches, a few VOR approaches, and a few LOC approaches.

Alex.
 
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