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- Sun Jan 14, 2024 12:17 am
- Forum: DA40 Forum
- Topic: Power off 180
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2489
Re: Power off 180
For Commercial power off 180 degree spot landings, you have 3 tools in your "toolbox" to use: - when/where to put in more flaps - how steeply (longer vs. shorter path) to turn back to the runway - forward slips In a DA40 -- a low-drag plane that "really wants to fly" and "do...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:20 pm
- Forum: Hangar Talk
- Topic: G1000 NXi Phase III
- Replies: 110
- Views: 90301
Re: G1000 NXi Phase III
Diamond is still unable to certify a subset of the G1000NXi (aka Perspectve+) features that were standard on Cirrus five years ago. It's worse than that. My DA62 was one of the first equipped with NXi in early 2017, when Garmin was advertising NXi features like Visual Approaches and SurfaceWatch fo...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: Public forum
- Topic: Low Time Insurance Brokers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 943
Re: Low Time Insurance Brokers
Especially if they work for a Diamond distributor, aircraft sales brokers typically have pre-existing relationships with insurance brokers who understand Diamonds and/or have experience in working with low-time pilots. They may also have an idea of which insurance underwriters are more likely to ins...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 4:55 am
- Forum: DA62 Forum
- Topic: BestTugs B5 vs B8 for DA62
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1929
Re: BestTugs B5 vs B8 for DA62
Russ, great pirep on getting the nose wheel up on the tug. I'd been looking at the EZ Load option and I think I'll go for it. If anyone has thoughts on other options on the BestTugs Bravo series (Lights, GPU/Jumpstart, Lazy Susan), that'd be interesting to hear and hopefully won't be too big of a t...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 6:58 pm
- Forum: DA62 Forum
- Topic: Left alternator failed
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6013
Re: Left alternator failed
I had a single alternator failure (for real) during an IFR flight in our Austro DA42-VI some years ago. Besides the alternator fail annunciation, the volts/amps went to zero on that engine (this was a legacy G1000, not NXi). The good news is that I didn't have to do anything to continue the flight n...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:09 pm
- Forum: DA62 Forum
- Topic: Aux fuel level
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5511
Re: Aux fuel level
No need to leave fuel in the AUX tanks of either the DA42 or DA62 (except for tank capacity, the systems are very similar). I'm not sure how you'd know you have 1 gal left in the tank of a DA42, since (unlike most DA62s) there are no DA42 AUX tank fuel gauges. We flew DA42 and DA62 for 9 years and r...
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 8:20 pm
- Forum: DA62 Forum
- Topic: DA62 on order or recently delivered?
- Replies: 217
- Views: 202491
Re: DA62 on order or recently delivered?
I am wondering if the planes that were built in Austria typically have less of these types of issues? My 2017 DA62 was built in Austria, and while its fit and finish was pretty good, there were some quality control issues -- such as the "DA62" vinyl decal on the tail that was installed cr...
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:52 pm
- Forum: DA62 Forum
- Topic: Switching to Dual Cue FD in G1000
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4456
Re: Switching to Dual Cue FD in G1000
Is dual cue a feature, like 3D audio, that can be enabled in the G1000NXi setup? That's exactly what I was thinking. I think there's a high probability that the option might be enabled in G1000 configuration/maintenance mode somewhere. FWIW, our Epic G1000 NXi (with software equivalent to Diamond's...
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 11:39 pm
- Forum: Hangar Talk
- Topic: Lightspeed Delta Zulu
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14770
Re: Lightspeed Delta Zulu
3D audio in a Garmin audio panel has nothing to do with "spatial audio" or head-related transfer function (where the frequency response of music is modified based on where it's coming from, to take into account the shape of the listener's ears). Garmin 3D audio in the GMA 1360 is much simp...
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:07 pm
- Forum: DA40 Forum
- Topic: Data Card File structures
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8847
Re: Data Card File structures
John: There are old threads that discuss how to do this, but creating new or backup SDCards is relatively straightforward. For legacy G1000, you use the flyGarmin app on your PC to download the desired database files onto an SDCard for the PFD, and another SDCard for the MFD. Cards usually don't nee...