Show Us Your Panel! (Pictures)

[Steve Pierce]

Thanks for bringing this back up. My Dad and I were on a trip together and I meant to get back to this one. I am in the same dilemma on my 182 panel. Bought the airplane.like.4 years ago. Flew it till the.mouse urine smell made me finally pull the interior, headliner and wiring out. Got started and then my hangar kit came which took two years.

I go back and forth on getting an instrument ticket and using it. I did cut a panel and wire it for an Electronics International CGR30P engine monitor, AS, Altimeter, VSI and altimeter along with an AV30 and a Garmin 796. I just need to catch up on customer airplanes and get it finished. I don't see myself flying IFR but it would be nice to be able to depart or shoot an approach at times. I have done some work recently away from home where we went in a friend's Bonanza and twice we had to shoot an approach to get home. They have nice equipment and know how to use it. Money to buy and install and time to get an instrument ticket and get proficient. There never seems to be enough of either.

 

[rsrguy3]

Nope.... and I've been finding more often than not, at 430 or 530 I'm so bushed I don't have the drive to work on my stuff.... somethings got to change.

 

[Photobusta]

Thanks for the info! Very helpful. I think a G2 will be great right next to the Oil temp/press.

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i see you have one fuel gauge and a switch to toggle left and right, is this an approved practice? I'm curious because id like to take one gauge away and in stall a G2 also for field approval

 

[Steve Pierce]

i see you have one fuel gauge and a switch to toggle left and right, is this an approved practice? I'm curious because id like to take one gauge away and in stall a G2 also for field approval

Piper did that on the early planes.

 

[archull]

1949 Piper PA-16 Clipper. Factory 0-235 pulled and replaced with an O-320, header tank deleted and added right wing tank, left rear door delete and added left front pilot's door. PA18 tail feathers, Madras droop tip wings, Vac System delete, Uavionics AV30, UAvionics tail beaconx for ADSB and transponder, Garmin 200 radio / Coms, 8.50-6 Aeroclassics, Left & Right seat brakes with toe brakes, LED nav lights all around.

 

[Code4Aviation]

That is CLEAN. very nice

 

[Jim]

Hi,

The recent interior cleanup. I've added a JPI fuel flow and a stratus in/out adsb. Still no installed nav or com radios, but I did make a place for something on the lower left dash.

 

[Will K]

Hi,

The recent interior cleanup. I've added a JPI fuel flow and a stratus in/out adsb. Still no installed nav or com radios, but I did make a place for something on the lower left dash.

thats shiney.

 

[Jim]

Hi Will,

....thats shiney. Sometimes. Whenever I take out a piece it gets cleaned up. About 8 or so years of oxidation were removed this time. I also made several things easier to access. The dash top center section is removeable, tank selector valve access, the rear half of the front floor as well as a side panel to the left pilots ankle for that fuel line behind there. Only the original guages can't come out the front.

 

[grbamford]

I have the same JPI in my plane. Brings a good level of comfort. Mine is usually within .5 gallon of used fuel accuracy. Great bang for the buck.

Greg

 

[Jim]

Hi,

.......I have the same JPI in my plane......

I've been setting things up for our daughter continuing on with the plane. I'm ignorant on most things with more than three wires, I can wire a house, but....... I was surprised to learn after installing the JPI it would need its own GPS input to function fully using her Foreflight. I did the mounting, not the avoinics wiring. Between the transponder, the new ELT, and her Apple pad of some sort running Foreflight that I/she, will still need another GPS source for the JPI. I doubt I'll ever actually turn the things on.

 

[Steve Pierce]

The GPS source wired to the JPI will give you remaining fuel at destination. My Garmin and Electronics International are suppose to do that but I never figured it out. I can do it in my head usually. Plus I have to leave both fuel caps on so the EI has a more accurate reading of amount of fuel in the tank.

 

[Gilbert Pierce]

Doing the calculations in you head keeps your math skills current. I wired my Garmin to the AV30 so I could stabilize the HSI. I didn’t bother to connect that same wire to EI fuel computer. I can do it my head almost as fact as I can switch the EI FP5L.

 

[MrBill]

I disagre todays tecknowlegy along with spell check makes me smarter pilot

 

[Jim]

Hi,

....."The GPS source wired to the JPI will give you remaining fuel at destination. "

So there's not much of a benefit to hooking one of these things to a GPS? I'll probably never browse the manual.

...." I can do it my head almost as fact as I can switch the EI FP5L."

I used a kitchen countdown timer for more years than I can remember, Starting with the right, I switch tanks at 30 minutes each. Before three times on the left I'll know where I'm going in for fuel, mostly still in the left tank.

Thanks guys!

 

[MrBill]

Im with you there. I have a spot for a clock but those old kitchen timers are handier than a smart phone in most cases. I suppose that speaks for my age too. Just last year I got my first smart phone also got an Ipad and foreflight. So if I seem moody or mad, sorry, ha.

 

[grbamford]

I didn't know you could wire it to your GPS. Makes sense if you want to know fuel remaining at destination. That's pretty nice if you have it hooked up. When I had it installed, it was more of peace of mind when leaning the motor out for fuel efficiency. I had no other way to really know what I was leaned out to in real time. The fact that my field gauges bounce all over the place wasn't reassuring either. If I could get rid of my fuel gauges and simply rely on the information directly on the JPI, I would do that.

Greg

 

[Smokey]

I didn't know you could wire it to your GPS. Makes sense if you want to know fuel remaining at destination. That's pretty nice if you have it hooked up. When I had it installed, it was more of peace of mind when leaning the motor out for fuel efficiency. I had no other way to really know what I was leaned out to in real time. The fact that my field gauges bounce all over the place wasn't reassuring either. If I could get rid of my fuel gauges and simply rely on the information directly on the JPI, I would do that.

Greg

Upgrade to the JPI 900\930 $$$$ with digital fuel senders for the tri pacer https://ciescorp.net/applications/small-aircraft/piper/#piper-models

GPS pin outs for the 232 bus are below