Make your avionics last

Plane and Pilot | March 1, 2003| | Copyright

Considering the cost of new avionics, pilots should think about these tips to keep what they have working

I'm one of those lucky people who most often flies very wellequipped airplanes. Flight test subjects are usually demonstrators, equipped to demonstrate, and that means they're loaded with avionics. After all, how can you sell an option if you can't demonstrate it?

The used airplanes I'm entrusted to fly are similarly packed with options. We try to choose only the best used examples to test, and by definition, that means the owners have fitted them with every avionics goody they can ...

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