Wow, what rapid responses!
In my talks with the boss at PSS, I discussed the glider/short wings
conundrum.
One needs to add a second EPROM when the wings swap, since the airfoil
is different. If we didn't have flaps, that could have been the easy
switch.
Nevertheless, it should be possible to piggyback a small circuit board with
an electronic switch onto the original EPROM socket that would be
microswitched to an appropriate tang on the wing root.
PSS is also in the process of certificating the AOA sport, so the product
development is officially "mature", i.e., finished. There were some
comments
---From some of my RV friends about the display or warnings being underdamped,
which PSS claims has been solved within the last year with V.7 of the
software.
Some of you have been irritated that PSS didn't partner with BlueMnt to
put the AOA indicator on-screen. Aside from there being little incentive
for them to do that, on-panel is the wrong place for an AOA. It needs to
be in the pilot's field of view as s/he looks out of the window during
landing, which is why you see so many AOA-sports sitting on top of the
glareshield.
Continue!
Shaun
A207
----- Original Message -----
From: "James H. Nelson" <europajim@juno.com>
Subject: Re: PSS AOA sensor position standardization
> If you check out the positioning by way of the manual, you do not line
> the two ports up vertically. What you do is keep them in line tip to
> trail but off set tip to root. Does that make sense. This puts the
> ports at the same distance from the leading edge but not the same
> distance from the wing tip. Mine is off set about 2" with the lower port
> closer to the root. My wing is a foam wing and I cut a 6" hole through
> the bottom skin and made a flange to put inside to reattach the cover
> when I finished the installation. I then ran my urethane lines out to
> the tip and ran them back through the conduit I used for the wing wiring.
> BTW, proprietary Software has a disconnect for their tubes. I am
> getting mine next week. I forgot to mention it to Jim at PS to include
> it with the kit. I also sent Jim the way we "operate" our Europa a/c.
> Since we mono wheel drivers have no control for separating flap from gear
> extensions and the tri gear drivers only have flaps to operate, I've
> asked Jim to help us on our setups to the CPU in the unit. I will keep
> you up dated.
> Well, I'm doing the final bits to proceed with painting. Which I
> should have done for Sun-N-Fun. I'll be bringing my a/c to the Europa
> dinner as one of at least four others. It will give us all a chance to
> see the many varietys we are doing.
>
>
> Jim Nelson
>
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>
> > Shaun:
> > I'm not going either.............:-(
> > I have foam wings, and that seems to be old poo so don't
> > think
> > I'm topical. I phone the boss at Proprietary and we had a long chat,
> > the nub
> > of which was you can be inside his limits and the only thing that's
> > critical
> > is that the two orifices are directly vertical one under the other.
> > He said
> > the real comparison is between them rather than the proper readings
> > of each.
> > Hope this softens worries somewhat - sorry I can't speak for the XS
> > models.
> > Ferg
> > A064
> >
> >
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