am 0 a nation Jason here answering a question a lot of you have been asking a
lot of you have seen 2 3 Mike Zulu not only in the videos but in person and
it'll be at all the AOPA fly-ins it's already been it sounded fun Oshkosh as
well you come check it out here we've asking why we did what we did
why haven't I and over Garmin why this over this and these sort of things I
want to work with you I gotta answer those questions here and just showcase
you everything and why we chose what we did let's start with what kind of powers
and really the heart and soul of any airplane but particularly 2 3 Mike Zulu
and that is our avid ein stack this is a complete avid eins stack from the
intercom down to the transponder but the two main work horses are the IFD 550 and
440 here I've flown with all sorts of Garmin products now flying with avid ein
products that's what I chose to go with because it really works for myself my
style of flying and the team here that mr. Wacom and our style of flying some
different things I love and it really sold me about it here the first and
foremost it sounds so simple but we have the avid ein keyboard that we keep right
here in the plane so I can give it to a passenger when they need to do something
if I'm getting bumped around I need a change of frequency well I have the
keypad here I can still do the old twist the knobs to change the frequency or I
can even go to my keypad here put one one you see change up there 8.60 and I
can put that frequency in there as well I can flip-flop those frequencies from
the keyboard as well you can see everything I can go direct to let's go
direct to K G and V of the Gainesville enter enter and I've got that all
programmed in there that speaks to the die not speaks to everything the other
killer feature for us at least is what we have is set up on the avid ein app
the avid ein app really works - mirror is well over here what we're seeing on
the 550 so I can show my entire FMS flight plan I can show just my map if I
like to leave this on FMS motor this on synthetic vision or I want this
style of synthetic vision here I can have my flight plan here I can have my
big map here because you'll notice a lot of the videos when I'm flying on my
actual map I keep the land data and the nav data to a minimum I can turn that up
just so you can see it it's it's just this map here basically I'm so ship it
now just you can see there but I actually keep everything to a minimum
because I'm flying IFR the majority of the times anyways I want less
distraction so I need a C airspace and such I have for flight on sitting on my
lap via an iPad I have for flight over here as well and this is another iPad
installed here and we just went with Guardian guardian avionics is this
install here so I've got all of this I've got for flight right here as well
if I want to pull up a plate brief it have it right here in front me or having
a more detailed map as well it's many ways to do the same different things I
always joke with people if I if I have an instrument issue
how many adjudicators can I can I make at any given time and this in this
particular airplane and I can pull up a whole festival if I need it require that
level of redundancy I have it so that's kind of a big reason for that why we're
flying I mean it's these little features that make the difference that you've
seen us doing these great IFR flight videos and how we truly maximize it
you've seen the video a link to it as well how we kind of preload the approach
on the ground and just thinking ahead with our flight plans engine wise let's
let's head over this way now engine wise we went with the e I their 30 P and
their 30 C is the CG our line here everyone here is flown with old 1972
Cessna or piper gauges there's really four of them and they're not all that
reliable the fuel gauges are swinging everywhere everything else we had our
fuel floats to sent off calibrate with everything so we're calibrated now down
to the decimal point there is no longer an excuse for not knowing fuel fuel flow
I have oil pressure oil temperature CHT egt for each of the four cylinders here
as well my fuel levels a G meter the it's cool to have a G Manor and I'm not
doing anything cool but it sounded cool this is actually very cool and very
important to me this is my co level detector this comes actually from our co
Guardian as well that I have down here so showing my co level so they always
watch the winter months when I'm pulling on the cabin heat and I'm watching to
make sure I'm not getting any carbon monoxide in the cockpit my volts by amps
by carburetor temperature as well and my outside air temperatures when I add carb
heat I can see a rise increase in my carburetor temperature as well as like
me watching for things like carb ice just great
great tools to give me the confidence now as well when I fly make it run up so
much easier if I can show you I'll just do a run-up I make sure what's behind me
here I'm just sitting over here on the non-moving there's nothing behind me I
do an actual run-up we run up at 17-under rpm so I'm looking up here get
real picky with digital numbers now to run up to 1700 just barely when I do a
mag check I don't need the camera be able to see it but it'll show me which
mag and I go to left it shows me the left Maggie knows it's a mag drop it
shows me that appropriate drop when I go back to both that mag indicator goes out
and I get my rise back on up go to the right Mack the opposite mag light will
come on right showing me my drop showing me my rise so it's acknowledging each
Magneto independently there as well which is really really outstanding just
adding technology to make our life easier and then over here we have we
went we actually be very first this is certified by nothing in here is
experimental it's a big question we get asked because people unfortunately
associate dying on with with just experimental set down has an entire
certified line now we were the very first die not certified on there 172 STC
so this is the first one installed absolutely love it what I love here too
is the team and I fly very differently this is how Matt many of you know Matt
this is how Matt likes to fly a lot Matt must love his maps cuz you'll see Matt
flying like this not making fun of matter anything like that but he has
maps on maps on maps whereas I would rather how I typically fly you'll see in
the videos is I like to take this full I'll pull up my map elsewhere I have a
map my laughs I'll fall of a map over here
we all fly differently we all configure the airplane differently and we have
these types of profiles to do that can figure that notice my avid ein is
talking to my diner on it's pulling from the IFD 550 or 230 miles again so like
we put it there and I've got my HSI I also put in here not everybody flies for
this on the team but I do have our ground speed our airplane was originally
certificated it miles per hour so I had these numbers never having thousands of
hours I have in this airplane before it became too 3-bike Zulu
it was always miles per hour those numbers are burned into my brain so we
just set everything up in miles per hour if I have everything
estimated time and route to final distance to go next Waypoint estimate
time next distance to next and my next course again my theme is what thinking
ahead of the airplane maybe you say this glass stuff is great Jason it's just a
little bit much for me well even with that we we can put everything and still
show you your standard a six-pack if you still want to fly with a standard
six-pack still an HSI there just to show you that to get you used to some glass
panel flying kind of something fun d810 over here just as a backup it's actually
a requirement to have we're done and sell that I want to mention to
everything here d-10 a HDX everything here has its own independent backup
battery as well so it is all redundant so if I go and we'll go master switch
off here in a second you'll watch and you'll see everything will just kind of
keep on keep on powering on HDX everything else will keep going on
battery wise because it has its own backup it knows the Masters off and
he'll turn itself off but it has its own a backup battery lastly I think it was
something I think is super cool too is the lights that we did if you've ever
flown with me you know I'm a big fan sitting on the ramp and all my lights
are on for goodness sake I am a big fan of flying with all of my lights on we
were switched everything over to arrow let's we use the wig wag as well method
I can turn that on real quick so you can see what the wig wag actually looks like
as well so you kind of see that and check all of that out and then you can
also fly with it just on regular steady like that if you want to see that but
there's there's no excuse Ocala tower makes fun
of us they can always see us like 30 miles out they know when two three bikes
lose a couple you don't need a TSB you can just see us yes we have a tsp but
you can see us coming with all of those lights because we're so bright and
that's up thanks to our friends at arrow LEDs who put out just a fantastic
product last little thing I'll mention here is something I didn't think was
possible I think there's a stereotype behind this this airplanes from 1972 we
added an autopilot it never came with off the factory with an autopilot we
added an autopilot that many years later we want the true track this is the true
track their vision autopilot here that you can see and the beauty of this is
since we went to Ollie I I saved a lot of space I had a round space here
anyways this is where every my board the tachometer was on to 3-bike Zulu so it I
had that hardness right there everything was ready to go we plugged that in we
ran the cabling we added the servos this was literally a day's worth of work and
I for whatever reason and again being an aviation is really my only career I
never I had the stereotype that didn't come with an autopilot it's very
expensive you can't add one and route you're actually breaking that down this
is again fully certificate at Utrecht out there start the experimental space
they have a huge line of certificated product certified products now as well
to check out so you'll be seeing a lot of video have done some hands-free GPS
approaches as well that you can see that and it's full use another just fantastic
piece of hardware again to three bikes Lou is an amazing machine but it takes
time to truly learn and master each of these when when we first did this I had
Gary many of you know Gary from videos our videos come in and train myself and
the team on how to use this because just going direct enter enter you've unlocked
like 1 maybe 2 percent of what this box what this entire suite here can really
do for you so I am still learning something every day I'm still on a
hundred percent of the way there but a good pods always learning and we're
always working to get better and better so please if you do decide to take that
plunge and add it so fantastic avionics even if you just once
they're adding an iPad on your lap or mounts at the panel whatever it is even
those apps have so many intricacies and new things to learn so make sure you're
taking time to better yourself and learn those as well so anyways I'm gonna go
ahead and shut down if you have any questions myself and the team and I'm
gonna ask some of the team at died on an avid ion and Guardian and true track
Andy I to kind of watch these comments and arrow LEDs to watch these comments
as well so if you have any questions for for their team they'll be chiming in to
answer those as well so list I hope you'll come out check out to3 mic Zulu
at the remaining AOPA fly-ins this year up at Oshkosh had Sun and fun the
following year enjoy the rest of your day and most importantly remember a good
pilot is always learning have a great day guys we'll see you I sincerely hope
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