Great ! For longer trips I carry a vmax pro and a xiaomi mi 3 (gf). Perfect for the most locations. The vmax is slightly too big but nice to ride tho. Keep loading up your content. Like it. If you are in europe please drop by for a beer 🍻🛴
Trio is announcing the STC for the Trio Pro Pilot for 150s. I'm slated to get one of the first installs on my 150L. The Trio can be used for RNAV approaches.
It sounds like you put your phone down in a coffee can, or you’ve cupped your hand over the mic-hole … something is messing with this EQ on your voice that sounds unnatural.
I tear'd up watching your trip back home. Especially listening to 'You Are Awesome in This Place'. Our daughter and son-in-law lived in Jackson Hole Wyoming for three years and she wants to move back there. She's in the upstate of South Carolina now. Thanks for the video. Happy y'all were able to make the trip. God bless you brother.
Cool...do you have the constance beeping like I heard in the video while it was working...hope to see cross country flights while using it...thanks for sharing.
I wish I had known you were coming that close to KMDQ. I would have flown over to meet you in my 150. I fly over there very often. Watch for those eagles over the lake.
This was a very good review. There is not much information about this autopilot. As another C-150 owner, it is frustrating that we do not have many options for a panel-mounted a/p. Trio is anticipating approval shortly, and I am hopeful one day Garmin will consider adding the 150 to the GFC 500 approved list.
This looks really cool, and I think even just a 1-axis would do a lot to reduce workload. Hoping to see a Piper Cherokee option next. I wonder if it may be possible to get a 90-degree connector for the interface decice with the buttons so the silly wire doesn't stick out.
This little system appears to be a clever and relatively budget friendly way to upgrade various GA aircraft to GPS autopilot navigation. Does the FAA consider this setup adequate/certified for IFR navigation?
Thanks for the video. It looks like there's an input/output monitor, an actuator that drives the yoke and a processor unit that controls the actuator. My question is how do you connect your GPS unit to the processor unit? Is it hard wired? or is it wireless driven?
How does Trim get handled…does it prompt you to adjust trim and indicate when it’s in trim? Also…for altitude hold, does it prompt you to make adjustments to throttle, etc? I enjoy your videos..I’m nearby you and own a 150 based at DKX.
Yes it does prompt you to adjust trim and will indicate when it's in trim. However I only have the NAV model, and not the VNAV. Thanks for watching and good to have someone nearby. Are you hangared?
I actually just got a Hangar at Seymour Airpark TN20…but I also have a tiedown at DKX as my teenagers are both working on their Private Certificate at DKX and train out of there.
Great video again. I looked at these a year or so ago, but did not do anything for the same reasons that you cited. I have a 150J, so It looks like it will not work for me anyway. I can afford an installed autopilot, but I'm not sure that I want to put that much money in a 150. On the PortaPilot, that installation did not look that easy to me. Can it be attached to an iPad? Your videos are always very good. Thanks for this one.
It really is easy, I just was being more "permanent" in my install. A quick install not being as tidy would have been really fast. An iPad can drive it provided the flight software has NMEA out capability with the correct adapters
C150J simply needs a newer style yoke collar (2460038-1). Inexpensive, easy to replace. One bolt releases yoke, four small screws replace yoke collar. But not DYI
In the video you said you turned on the “internal magnetometer” …isn’t how that model always works if you don’t have the optional external magnetometer? Thanks!!!
I used to fly out of GMU,I live in Paris mountain with my parents.You can't see that airport at nite,it's in a hole surrounded by lit roads and apartments.runway 1-19 is slightly down hill on runway 1 and uphill on 19.
Good lesson. Also we will find water in wing tanks that doesn't get to the lowest sump, especially in the desert when outside and the diurnal temp spread makes a lot of condensation each and every day in summer. May have to move plane a bit to make sure the wing sump is the lowest point in the wing tank. Good job.
Hi, i just wanted to tell you how much i appreciate your channel. Last year i bought a 1966 150F. I have done the spin on oil filter mod, the lowest fuel drain sump mod, all new engine baffle seals, new Bendix mags and harness, new aps blackmax brake rotors, all new wheel bearings and races,, and the tailbeacon adsb mod. I appreciate your channel and information. Thank you!
Awesome, great info thanks! I have an AV-30 as well, I assume you have the AV-Link for the connection from the Stratux? I never knew traffic from the Stratux could be displayed on the AV-30 as even an option until I watched your video. Thanks again.
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