Recently purchased my 7A with the TruTrack Vizion 385 installed. I'm in the process of adding 2 Garmin G5's and a GMU 11 magnetometer. (Plane has no AI or DG today.)
As I'm getting into the details of connecting the G5's, I have found that the existing GPSMAP 496 can feed track data to both the G5 & the TruTrack, but the G5 & the TruTrack can't talk to each other.
In a year or two, I plan to move to a G3x Touch all-Garmin solution, and am wondering if I should go ahead & swap out the AP now.
Pros:
- integration between G5 & AP
- more intuitive AP control panel
- build the wiring harness once, not twice. CAN bus from G5<->GSA28<->GMU11
Cons:
- more $ now, but will spend eventually anyway
- panel work to replace the TruTrack with the Garmin AP control head
- unknown difficulty in retrofitting the AP servos
Anyone gone through this process before?
Thanks!
As I'm getting into the details of connecting the G5's, I have found that the existing GPSMAP 496 can feed track data to both the G5 & the TruTrack, but the G5 & the TruTrack can't talk to each other.
In a year or two, I plan to move to a G3x Touch all-Garmin solution, and am wondering if I should go ahead & swap out the AP now.
Pros:
- integration between G5 & AP
- more intuitive AP control panel
- build the wiring harness once, not twice. CAN bus from G5<->GSA28<->GMU11
Cons:
- more $ now, but will spend eventually anyway
- panel work to replace the TruTrack with the Garmin AP control head
- unknown difficulty in retrofitting the AP servos
Anyone gone through this process before?
Thanks!