The traffic and weather data comes out of the UAT as serial data
that goes to a wi-fi module and the Avidyne display. There is
also an ARINC 429 databus that goes from the UAT to the IFD.
I’m sure some people are smart enough to keep all of this in
their head, but I had to start writing it down. I have been making
technical drawings for a long time as an Avionics Engineer, and
I was able to put some of that experience to work for myself. I
started with a glideslope antenna, and a few weeks later I had
a drawing that printed out two feet wide and three feet tall. I
actually made a poster of it to put up in my hangar.
Though not poster size, you can see the drawing on the
following pages.
As the drawing was coming together, boxes of parts started
arriving at the house. I made one last flight behind the old
avionics, and parked my plane in the hangar. It was time to
make a perfectly-good airplane very, very unairworthy.
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