I’m considering installing this in my RV3 and just looking for opinions on the Uavionix Echo - EXT “all in one” system.
Any good/bad things to consider ?
Thanks out there!
I installed the echo UAT in my RV3 in conjunction with a GRT Sport efis and a GTX 327. My set up was from GRT using their safefly gps.
Install was easy, support from GRT and Uavionics is very good and it works.
So far so good! I would recommend it.
I just had my uAvionix Echo installed today by a mechanic. (He installs this brand all the time) I said "how do I check it"? He said just call ATC. So I did, but it failed. Have to take it back to him. But before I do, anybody got any ideas??
I just had my uAvionix Echo installed today by a mechanic. (He installs this brand all the time) I said "how do I check it"? He said just call ATC. So I did, but it failed. Have to take it back to him. But before I do, anybody got any ideas??
Well first, you don’t check it by calling ATC.
So how exactly did you check it, and what exactly failed? Are you talking the ADS-B performance report from the FAA, or did you just call ATC? If you didn’t do a performance report, that’s a great place to start to see if you really did fail.
https://adsbperformance.faa.gov/paprrequest.aspx
Colin,
The WiFi connection is good from the wing location? How strong is the signal? That wing panel sounds like a great location if the WiFi is sufficient.
I was just told to lower mine to 1100. This got rid of the mode 3A problem, but I still have "Baro Alt". Will take the advice on calling ATC for an actual altitude vs what my 327 is saying. We'll see.
Before I can get a squawk to show on monitor.
Told by whom? uAvionix?
I may be wrong but I think in this case that "baro altitude" is pressure altitude where the other choice is GPS or geometric altitude.
I bought a Uavionix Echo and will get my avionics guy to install it in a few weeks. My transponder antenna is just about centered under the belly, and my radio antenna is about 5 ft back from that on the belly under the area where the rear bulkhead is. I don't really have an area that is 3 feet away from the antennas on the belly of my 6A for the ADS-B antenna. The wing root fairing is 2 feet away from the transponder antenna.. is this the best place? Is 2 feet away good enough? or should I just plan on trying to install in the wing inspection cover further out the wing?
just finished installing an echo/GRT Safefly unit late yesterday and have configuration questions. I know I can get answers to these next week from Uavionix but would really like to try this thing out this weekend.
First of all, the "advanced" settings menu in the app isn't even mentioned (and is, in fact, sort of hidden) in the documentation, so am I expected to try the unit without putting values in these spots?
And what are "SDA" and "SIL" and where do I find values for them? The app does make suggestions ("e.g.") for the values so is that what y'all are using?And then there's the often-discussed transponder threshold which is also not mentioned in the manual.
Sorry if this has been answered before but my searching just couldn't pull it up. I just find it very curious that Uavionix chooses to not mention these settings.
thx
Oh, and one more thing. ( I'm sure you know this---but just in case---you have to be sitting in your cockpit for the double touch on your app to read the unit, otherwise you'll get all zero's) Oh, and one more thing--make sure after you hit SDA, SIL, or Transponder threshold, you also hit "Update Advanced" ( OK, I don't know what happened here, but on an "edit" the paragraph is supposed to be last.)
Hopefully I can help a little bit here. First of all, you have to "touch" the word "echo" on the app on your smart phone with 2 fingers. This will make a whole bunch of information, (down lower on the screen) pop up. The mechanic who installed my Echo, got all these setup numbers from talking to uAvionix. I think you'l have to get the SDA and SIL from them. The "transponder threshold", you'll have to play with "while" you're airborne. I found that 1186 or 1184 works for me. Before that, I was getting "Baro Alt, and Mode 3A failures wrapped up in a red box. (If you don't already know, send you reports here after you finish flying---that's where you get your pass/fail reports from) https://adsbperformance.faa.gov/paprrequest.aspx
As I adjusted my "Transponder Threshold", I got rid of the Mode 3A box, but I kept getting the "Baro ALt" failure in a red box. The guy at uAvionix said "that" meant I was below radar coverage. They have some sort of map for the whole United States that shows how low radar coverage goes. When I told him where I went, down in the boonies of SE Georgia, he said below 1500 FT, I had no radar coverage, and thus the Baro Alt failure.
OK-------------So yesterday, I flew from KLZU to KCHA Chattanooga a class C airport. I literally had radar coverage from the ground on takeoff to the ground on landing. I used a "Transponder threshold of 1186 going, and 1184 coming back. Got a perfect score of 0.00% failure on the Baro Alt, and obviously no red box. So I'm finally done dickin with mine. Hope this helps.
Oh, and I see you're practically my neighbor in N Carolina. Fly to some class c airport (I dunno about CLT, that's a class B--they'll be awfully busy.) (Try KGSP or maybe KGSO. The class C guys are much easier to deal with then the class B guys I find.) Try to take off from an airport with a "very very" low to the ground radar coverage
this definitely helps. I wasn't sure what sort of a touch shows the advanced settings, it just sort of happened.
I'm close to KGSO, and they're user-friendly. Just to be clear, I need to be under their flight following (squawking their code) and fly for at least 30 minutes. That sound right?
Just to be clear, I need to be under their flight following (squawking their code) and fly for at least 30 minutes. That sound right?
Yeah, with a class C, you've gotta call for permission to enter their airspace, BEFORE you actually enter.
You "must" put that zulu time in when you send in your report, so it knows what time to look at you. Example, 19:35 if its 15:35 N carolina time. Do the exact same thing coming back with whatever the zulu time is for "that" leg.