Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted March 16, 2007 Aerosoft Share Posted March 16, 2007 anybody any idea what the gauge marked 2 is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted March 16, 2007 Author Aerosoft Share Posted March 16, 2007 anybody any idea what the gauge marked 2 is? Update... Robert Randazzo (PMDG) thinks it is either a Stec autopilot or a Loran receiver, with the Loran receiver being favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron.Eagle 0 Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 i think i've seen this before in one of my add-ons... wait a tick - I'll look it up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanP 0 Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 It does look like a LORAN receiver that I saw once on an old panel. Either that or a very, very, boxy DME, but that's a) a silly place to put a DME and got too many positions on the switches for a DME that boxy! Ian P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten42 12 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Hi, found two other pictures of it in a Metroliner panel: http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0014230 http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0014231 Not sure but it still looks a little bit like DME related. I think Carenado is using a similar gauge in the 182q and 206 beside the normal DME receiver. Not the same but similar in layout: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/400-DME-CES...090324656QQrdZ1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/COLLINS-DME...092956254QQrdZ1 Best Thorsten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted March 19, 2007 Author Aerosoft Share Posted March 19, 2007 Hi, found two other pictures of it in a Metroliner panel: http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0014230 http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0014231 Not sure but it still looks a little bit like DME related. I think Carenado is using a similar gauge in the 182q and 206 beside the normal DME receiver. Not the same but similar in layout: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/400-DME-CES...090324656QQrdZ1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/COLLINS-DME...092956254QQrdZ1 Best Thorsten heck, in the end I decided to make it a very basic Autopilot system, a lot like in the Maule. If it is Loran we lack the database (and to be honest compared with GPS the LORAN system is a bitch to work with). Even though AP systems on the Cat are rare, but not impossible. And with a endurance of 12 hours our customers will enjoy an AP even if it is very basic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB 11 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 There's an interesting Wiki on Loran here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LORAN#LORAN-A_and_other_systems It seems LORAN (LOng RAnge Navigation) was a precursor to GPS, so that being the case, we could probably safely not need this guage - after all, we can use the FS9 default GPS more effectively. In which case I'd welcome the simple AP. Or simply leave the dash bare there... I tried to Google an image, no luck though, in the time I allocated myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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