How come no one makes a remote black box?

I have an RV-8. I love a lot of the new avionics, but I keep thinking the manufacturers need to do a remote display design.

Put the brains in the tail somewhere (or under the seat) and have a remote display that is only an inch thick or so.

A design like that would even allow me to consider some avionics for the GIB.

Just wondering.

bruce
RV-8 Flying

I think AFS is working on something like that... think they're targeting back seat of -8

I kinda' thought that was what my GRT EFIS was. It's got a 2 inch thick display unit that is wired to a remote AHRS and a remote magnetometer. The Blue Mountain system is similar.

Is that what you mean or are you thinking the com/nav?

Jekyll

Terra.....

Terra actually did this and had displays at Oshkosh of their mini radios with remote heads. They just built the first 1/2 inch of the radio as a remote panel to be mounted on the dash, or wherever... If I remember correctly, the connecting cable length could be pretty long (10+ feet)

But the Trimble buy out and subsequent disastrous move of the assembly plant did them in....

gil in Tucson ... thought at the time that the remote head would be good for a sailplane

It sounded to me like the remote display for the AFS was for the second display only. The first was still the combined unit.

The BlueMountain EFIS/1 G3 and before does have a remote CPU/air data computer with a panel-only mounted display. However, I thought that with the G4 gear the E/1 was changing over to the same cylindrical CPU module that the Lites use. If this is true it looks like the only difference between the EFIS/1 and the Lite / Sports is going to be screen size and some software enhancements.

-Rick