I've got some good news i've got some not so good news
the good news is the primary flight display the pfd in echo yankee zulu is
working again here
should turn the aircraft that's good that's working well the not so good news
is that i don't actually own that primary flight display we've borrowed it
from someone else and so whilst it's working now it means it's not a
long-term solution so what i'm going to be doing today is a quick flight down to
avalon i just want to test the new primary flight display make sure it's
doing everything it should be doing and on the flight today i really do want
your help with uh whether i should repair the old one or just get a new
i think i'm going to get in you i'll be honest with you i think i'm going to cut
to the chase i do want to replace the primary flight display on this aircraft
it's very old but still working out which one to get
traffic seven o'clock altitude unavailable
traffic
so that's loaded traffic i have to get that to shut up on the ground flight
controls full and free
traffic
let's take off with traffic inside that gang silly
everything looks good airspeed's increasing
coming up on both
engage the autopilot there just to make sure that it can uh climb out for me
i could do this manually right now but hand fly it but
a big part of this flight is checking that
the new pfd and the avionics are talking to each other correctly
cdo's coming in so we should turn in a second under the autopilot i've got two
thousand five hundred so i'll make my radio call approach new zealand eleven
twenty three here oscar one zero two zero
seven departures echo yankee zoo now leveling off three thousand
i'm just slowing us down now to give myself a lot of time to get ready for
the approach well i pulled up my checklist which
means i don't i think he's trying to sync either with the
garmin devices maybe you're trying to sync online that's a little bit annoying
because i had my own instrument approach checklist that i wanted to test thank
you so we turn right heading 280 vectors for the ils
right two eight zero
should turn the aircraft
excellent that's good that's working well okay so henningbug is syncing
correctly with the hsi by going to vectors here and i'm
going to set the course for avalon
which is 176.
and then now the autopilot should keep flying me on heading mode
and uh when i get ready to intercept the ils
i'll go back to the mav mode then it should fly me down on the
autopilot should i think about
briefing the approach ah my chance have come back not my
checklist i should say my checklists have come back so we go in and out a
couple of clouds outside air temperature is eight degrees today so we should be
uh struggling with any icing three landing checks
three four three pump stays on which is i'm gonna put our pluto here
now because we're going in and out of the cloud there so as i bring this power
down just under 40 percent just to slow us down you can see our speed starts
to turn that setting zero one zero zero one zero from there okay sorry
position two miles left of localizer turn left heading two one zero to make
polar intercepts and increase the leverage control air space by the runway
one eight ios report established left turn two one zero and clear to
leave control air space on the one eight ios okay
that's interesting getting a nav invalid here
i'm not getting a glide slope you can tell i'm out
of practice back to clf hang on one second
let me sort myself out avalanche echo yankees four miles to the north on
december 1000 uh be a missed approach for the ils runway one eight and then
we're climbing to three thousand tracking to moorabbin avalon traffic
500. that's better so i i did [ __ ] that up and not on purpose i've done this
before and i've made a video about this on the channel before i can't believe
i've done that again and i think it's because i didn't have my checklist to go
through but i tuned in the wrong ils
okay that's minima so let's go around and will do full power
okay the missed approach to avalon climbing three thousand would like to
track to moorabbin sierra alpha for the three five
so i can go hold at waypoint
the left well inbound course is
zero five four
left turn time one minute and then once i've set it up i can go preview and i
can make sure that so this is where we're coming in and we'll do two holes
that looks like that and it should the autopilot should
pick up the hole and turn us
but i'm always confirming so even though the autopilot looks like it's doing the
right thing i'm still confirming so it should turn us to uh
outbound handling of two three four but if we do we can do the calculation so
crosswind is twelve so half that's six so i'd take six degrees off if i was
manually flying this i'd look for about what's two three four minus six two two
two eight oh my god i've been in lockdown for too long
whilst we're going around this hold as well like i said at the start of the
video i do need your help with your thoughts on which direction i
should go i'm pretty sure i'm not going to be repairing the avadyne pfd because
to send it back to the us to get it done it takes a long time it's going to cost
a lot of money at the end of the day i'm going to end up with a screen which is
you know 20 years old so my options are and a lot of you have been helping me
with this online with the instagram post i put up at
the last video that i showed on the subject it's basically a toss-up between
the avidyne vantage or moving away from abaddon and putting
in new garment units most likely the txis the touchscreen units which would
then complement the gtx 650s that i've got down here as well so i'm looking
into those options i would love to hear from you if you've got experience with
either of those i know they're pretty new systems so not many people would
necessarily have hands-on experience but if you've looked at them in an air show
if you've researched them for yourself i'd love to know your thoughts in the
comments five hundred complete land okay
what's that
yeah do you mind if i'm inside i'm on board but steven's just pushing the
aircraft back because i parked it in the wrong place it's really good to get back
and do some ifr practice amazing how quickly you get out of practice so
probably going to do another flight at least one more thank you
that's on the front all right i won't start it now the
lockdown's over in melbourne and we can actually leave the state
where shall i go next