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Adam Frisch

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Garmin Engine Instruments for the Turbo Commander is flying!
« on: March 18, 2024, 11:56:37 pm »
Saw this clip on Instagram from the first GEI suite on a 1000 model. Is it certified now? Cool anyhow!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4lAic4sj6p/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Slumming it in the turboprop world - so you don't have to.

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Re: Garmin Engine Instruments for the Turbo Commander is flying!
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2024, 01:29:46 pm »
Interesting! I think that is Andy Goodreau's instagram.

N12VA, that airplane, was also the prototype 1200!

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Re: Garmin Engine Instruments for the Turbo Commander is flying!
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2024, 09:42:38 pm »
Oh, wow! Cool!

Too bad the 1200 never happened. Sounded like a rocket sled!
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Re: Garmin Engine Instruments for the Turbo Commander is flying!
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2024, 02:14:26 pm »
1200 was doomed no matter what. The Cheyenne 400LS, which did everything (and more!) that the 1200 hoped to do, wasn't much of a market success either.

Garmin engine instruments on the other hand, I think will be a useful improvement. I would have to really understand the cost/benefit before I put one in my airplane-- the mechanical gauges work fine, so it needs to provide a cost benefit unless there is some feature that I am missing.

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Re: Garmin Engine Instruments for the Turbo Commander is flying!
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2024, 11:18:49 am »
I wonder if the Garmin EIS will work with the -10T conversions?

The SRL would seem like an easy interface, and I would guess that a standard -5 would be no problems, but there would be some work to put the variable red line for the -10T in, I would think.

Of course, not working with the -10T would also be quite limiting for their market.

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Re: Garmin Engine Instruments for the Turbo Commander is flying!
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2024, 05:53:40 pm »
I wonder if the 1200 was going to have some sort of electronic engine instrumentation? The Starship was developed around the same time, had Collins avionics and electronic engine instrumentation.

The Peregrine 1500, which was not really a Commander but at least somewhat developed by the Commander engineering team, also had electronic engine instruments. Really, the Peregrine panel looks a lot like a modernized Commander panel...