As you probably already know Larry, Falcon is not known for their quality and reliability. They are better than nothing but are thought of as a Chinese product with a limited lifespan. Of course, everything has a limited lifespan. I've had excellent performance from a TruTrak artificial horizon called an ADI (Attitude Directional Indicator). There are those who will accuse it of not being a "true" attitude instrument, however it has always worked exactly as I've expected it to so those who might quibble are probably people who have not flown with it, particularly in IMC. TruTrak has been bought out by Bendix/King however they still sell the 2 inch model ADI - not sure if it still has the GPS track readout on that instrument or not but if it does, that is one heck of a useful instrument - course and attitude on one instrument practically eliminates having to use other instruments. The thing I like about my 3 inch version is that there is no lag in its performance. For incredibly responsive planes like ours, it's a joy to use an instrument that is just as responsive. It reacts instantly. Conventional vacuum-driven attitude indicators have a lag time which is not noticible with normal planes, but would always be just a little bit behind the plane if used in a KR. I realize the Falcon is electric, so it may be just as responsive as the TruTrak instrument.
Besides the TruTrak ADI, there's lots of new choices on the market. Here's a few but there are quite a few more coming out of the woodwork if you do some searching. Some cost not much more than fixing your Falcon would cost (if you can find a shop to work on them). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbcSCWH3uhE&t=11s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZgYDVyLubo&t=67s Even Garmin has one, for the usual Garmin price, https://www.gulfcoastavionics.com/products/4177-g5-efis-experimental.aspx Mike KSEE ____________________________________________________________ Sad News For Royal Family track.volutrk.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5dc1dfb8106705fb70ad3st03vuc _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected]
