Agreed. I have a similar panel to yours - I should have called it , previous generation glass panel, rather than basic but yeah, it is without Synthetic Vision and other minor bells and whistles.MrMorden wrote:My airplane has a "basic" glass panel (Dynon D100), but all that is relative. My "basic" glass gives me airspeed, altimeter, vertical speed, slip/skid ball, heading (with bug), attitude indicator with bank angle and pitch angle increments, flight timers, checklists, G-meter, OAT, density altitude, TAS, bus volts, and working with the GPS gives me a simulated HSI. Functions I don't have connected include AoA and a built-in autopilot.Warmi wrote:Sting S4 at 840 with 480 usefull ,that’s with BRS and autopilot but with only basic glass panel.
It's funny what people get used to and consider "basic"...
I was even thinking about upgrading it to something like Dynon Skyview but ultimately, between TruTrak EFIS , TrueTrak AutoPilot , Garmin 796 and Garmin radio/comm - the current setup gives me 95% of what Skyview or Garmin 3x would give me and I would have to shell out something like 15 K to get the remaining 5 %. Why bother ... I use Garmin Pilot on my mini iPad as my "fancy" GPS ( synthetic vision etc ) without getting married to a 15 K panel that is already obsolete the day you buy it .
The only downside is that iPads , being general purpose devices, don't have the same level of brightness as dedicated panels but I can live with that...