I was in the shop getting my boomerang antennae removed, and while I was there I had them remove my entire copilot panel and replace with one of these mounts coupled with an iPad Pro 10.5 incher. Since I have the IFD 550, I can make it a fully functional MFD synced to my GPS, or I can run SVT against the high performance AHRS and have a full window to the world in any weather.
While the old copilot panel was fully functional, and the best technology that 1992 had to offer, it was heavy... and it took up two full avionics shelves in the nose. That annoyed me because it made my cavernous nose storage area mostly unusable. It had two fully redundant inverters powering an AC electric AI/HSI. The inverters also created a weird feedback noise in my headset when they were powering up... So pulled it all out and also removed the two old avionics shelves. Now I can fit anything I want up in the nose cone.
Here is the old vs the new...
The boxes of old stuff came to about 50 lbs. I ended up gaining 49 lbs of useful load!
My only complaint is the iPad is a little dim. I wish it was brighter. It will be fine night flights and not so bright days, but bright summer days it's a lot of glare and harder to see.
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