Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability
by AWildC182 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @01:06PM
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Gyro powered steam gauges are all but gone from aviation. The GA fleet is even shedding them at a promising rate. MEMS based independent systems with backup power are solid state and far more reliable than a janky vacuum pump driven by the engine running a couple clockwork instruments.
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Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability
by mixedCase on Thursday October 31, 2019 @02:17PM
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Sorry to be a pedant but since it took me a second to get it at first: "all but gone" implies that they're definitely still here, I think something like "almost gone" or "almost out of use" would be the right phrasing.
Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability
by Denvercoder9 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @02:44PM
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all but is an expression meaning almost. See e.g. https://grammarist.com/usage/all-but/. It's one of the most confusing English expressions I've encountered.
Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability
by kube-system on Thursday October 31, 2019 @02:33PM
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'all but' is an idiomatic synonym for 'almost'.
Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability
by outworlder on Thursday October 31, 2019 @03:18PM
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I don't see how that's relevant. _They can and will still fail_
What happens then they do?
Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability
by AWildC182 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @03:40PM
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You have more than one independent system. A typical glass panel install will have a primary ADAHRS (air data attitude and heading reference system which contains a MEMS magnetometer, gyro, accelerator, pitot static pressure transducers, and processor) and a secondary ADAHRS both connected to the primary flight displays. Should one fail, you have a fallback for your PFD. As a backup, were you would normally have a vacuum gyro, you have a small glass panel (the garmin offering is the G5) which contains it's own built in ADAHRS and battery and will continue running even with the entire aircraft electrical system disabled.
Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability
by kgilpin on Friday November 01, 2019 @08:58AM
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Most of the GA fleet is still vacuum powered for backup.
Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability
by AWildC182 on Friday November 01, 2019 @12:15PM
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Why do people keep parroting this? I know of exactly zero aircraft currently produced that are retaining the vacuum system and I've seen very few retrofits that retain the vacuum on the engine. The aircraft in operation with vacuum systems use them as primary systems but are moving away from it with each annual.