If you just want GPS and other informaiton then this unit is fine, though it won't replace your other insturments or give you IFR. Many of these less expensive units do not come with an artifical horizon or replace any of the 6 pack. They simplly allow you better navigation and will do what you are wanting (reduce cluttler and easier nav).
I'm going the http://www.pcavionics.com/ route, it has a solid state gyro that plus into an onboard system, mine of course will have SSD drive. Though this is all on my bigger plane. For the KR2, still trying to figure out what I want to do, there is alot less space and so much to put on. I might reduce what I want to do with it to more basics and just have AS/ALT analog backups. The tech is getting cheaper every day so who knows what there will be when I finally finish everything else on the plane, leaving the electronics for last. Joe On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:44 PM, <rdrace...@aol.com> wrote: > How about some feedback from those of you out there who have use these, or > are currently using these? > > I have only basic VFR instruments, Mag Compass, Altimeter, Airspeed > indicator, in my airplane, so any navigation source has to be a step up. > specially if it is true plug and play, and does in fact not require any > additional > items to put into operation. However, since I have nothing at all yet I > hesitate to buy something because it's a good price only to find out that > when adding the cost of something else I need to it, ie. a turn indicator > and > an artificial horizon, would have put me in a price range where I could > have purchased a single instrument that would perform all those functions > for > the same cost. > > Bottom line though I can afford $405 to ease the clutter of sectionals in > the cockpit, and keep flying purely Day VFR. While I can't yet afford the > $5000 panel upgrade to the Dynon Skyview system to be able to comfortably > fly true night VFR. > > Dave Goodman, maybe you have some input into this discussion since you have > done the upgrade? > > Todd Thelin > > > > > In a message dated 1/14/2011 2:35:21 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > flyk...@charter.net writes: > > For those of you seriously wanting to buy an iFly 700 GPS. There is one on > eBay and it is at $405 with two days left. Here is the link. > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > -- Jose Fuentes Founding Father (one of and former Vice Prez) of Capital City.NET User's Group Former Microsoft MVP http://blogs.aspadvice.com/jfuentes
