Finished New Avionics Installation

I stopped down at the airport with the kids and wrapped up the new avionics installation.  All that was left was installing the nutplates and doing the wiring.  I previously just had a single network cable connecting the two displays, but I needed to replace that with three network cables (left SkyView to knob panel, knob panel to autopilot panel and autopilot panel to right SkyView).  Since I had run the previous network cable between the two screens along the sub panel, it was long enough to cut and install new connectors on to make two of the three cables I needed.  Fortunately, I had enough scrap network cable in my box of wires to make the third.

After hooking everything up, I did a network config to allow the SkyView system to find the new boxes and did some ground tests to make sure everything was working properly.  Since I had the kids with me, I couldn’t take it up for a test flight, but I’m sure these will be a nice improvement to the panel.

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