Greg is a marvelous engineer. I'm amazed at the rate at which he puts out
new features.
But EFIS/1 is still very much a prototype; at some point you have to freeze
the design and
work out the manufacturing bugs.
I've been in too many engineering projects that have succumbed to the desire
to add
"just one more feature" and wind up being either too late to market or too
complicated to
be reliable. I wouldn't be suprised if EFIS/1 remains in engineering mode
for several months
yet.
Remember - until the design is stable, you are one of the test pilots. And
I wouldn't hand off
a demo unit to a dealer until the early adopters (test pilots) had
thoroughly wrung it out.
Shaun
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On the other hand Greg at Blue Mountain has kept raising
> the ante. The EFIS/One now has a three axis autopilot and flight planning
> among others, and it is shipping. As of last month, however, no one with
a
> Rotax 900 series had tried it. Also, sadly, neither of the well known
> avionics dealers listed in the Blue Mountain web site as dealers with demo
> equipment has received their demo equipment. >
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