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    Garmin G3X Help

    in Instruments, Radios and Electronics

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    G'day folks. I recently bought an aeroplane, which has a Garmin G3X EFIS. I have downloaded the manual, but have found it quite unintuitive when it comes to programming and executing flight plans. Does anyone out there have a dummy's guide or a step-by-step procedure in plain English that I can look at???

     

    Many thanks,

     

    Jim

     

     

    Hello pilots and builders

    in Just Landed - Welcome

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    Nice one Don. I built a Sonex a few years ago and put an Aerovee 2.2 up front - bought as a kit from Sonex as well. It didn't serve me well at all - a lot of folks like them, but I'm don't. I should have gone with a pre-built model like the Great Planes R2300. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Hope yours turn out great.

     

     

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    Low wing hinged canopy. Dangerous!

    in AUS/NZ General Discussion

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    My dad and I bought a Roko Via (low wing with forward hinged canopy) which is a great little plane- very well specced, good cruise, flys beautifully and looks great! The first comment my x-country instructor made was that it was a pretty dangerous place to be if you flipped it during a forced landing as you had no way to exit the aircraft. To be honest that wasn't something we thought about when buying the plane but is something we have thought a lot about since to the point we are considering selling and buying something else.What are people's thoughts on this? Are you comfortable flying in a plane with this configuration?

    You have one of the safest aeroplanes registered with RAAus - your Ballistic Parachute Recovery System is the envy of all when flying over tiger country. Just buy one of those inexpensive perspex escape tools with the pointed metal head and a decent hand cutter and that's all you need. This is a pretty low probability scenario Andrew - just enjoy the heck out of that outstanding aeroplane of yours. I loved flying it and will catch up with you soon to give you a ride in the Glasair. Cheers, Jim.

     

     

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    Sonex/Waiex

    in Sonex

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    I am building a Sonex. Started in Dec 06 and have 1000 hours into the build. Getting close to finishing. Lots of photos of the construction on my website - jims-sonex.com (no 'www').

     

    Cheers,

     

    Jim

     

     

    Sonex aircraft ?

    in AUS/NZ General Discussion

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    G'day.

     

    There is no Australian distributor for Sonex, so everything comes from the States. I bought my kit in 2006 and it came to around AUD$22000 for the kit landed at Sydney harbour (incl freight, GST and harbour charges). The AeroVee was around AUD$12000 delivered to my door. I am now pretty close to finishing. Nice plane and good bang for the buck.

     

    Cheers

     

     

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