Hypothetical question and looking for discussion regarding IFR checkride.
Background Info:
My panel right now (picture). The EFIS screens all get power from a single bus, and share a single ARHS. iPad mini running Garmin Pilot talking via Bluetooth to a Garmin GLO GPS antennae up on the dash (gives me the blue dot on the approach plate). Both the iPad and the antennae use their own battery power (completely independent of the aircraft).
The question:
If I replace the GLO antennae with a GDL 39 3D (which gives my iPad attitude info), and the checkairman covers up parts of my PFD for the partial panel work, can I use the iPad Mini's 'panel'? It’s completely independent of the aircraft, uses its own battery power, and adds a 2nd AHRS unit to the equation. If the whole panel goes dead in the clouds I have a way to know where ‘up’ is.
Example off the web of this setup in use:
Will I be allowed to use this, or will they say, “Please turn off the iPad”.
Question #2:
Can I just look across the cockpit to the passenger’s PFD and use that, or will they cover it up too? If not, I don’t need the GDL 39 3D.
Discussion appreciated (especially from CFII folks).
v/r,
dr
PS: I might need a IFR checkride here in a couple months. Anyone around N.TX qualified and willing to do the ride in my RV-6?
Background Info:
My panel right now (picture). The EFIS screens all get power from a single bus, and share a single ARHS. iPad mini running Garmin Pilot talking via Bluetooth to a Garmin GLO GPS antennae up on the dash (gives me the blue dot on the approach plate). Both the iPad and the antennae use their own battery power (completely independent of the aircraft).
The question:
If I replace the GLO antennae with a GDL 39 3D (which gives my iPad attitude info), and the checkairman covers up parts of my PFD for the partial panel work, can I use the iPad Mini's 'panel'? It’s completely independent of the aircraft, uses its own battery power, and adds a 2nd AHRS unit to the equation. If the whole panel goes dead in the clouds I have a way to know where ‘up’ is.
Example off the web of this setup in use:
Will I be allowed to use this, or will they say, “Please turn off the iPad”.
Question #2:
Can I just look across the cockpit to the passenger’s PFD and use that, or will they cover it up too? If not, I don’t need the GDL 39 3D.
Discussion appreciated (especially from CFII folks).
v/r,
dr
PS: I might need a IFR checkride here in a couple months. Anyone around N.TX qualified and willing to do the ride in my RV-6?
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