Transitioning through Atlanta Hartsfields class bravo.

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Tommy

Hello and welcome to Private Pilot Insider. In this video you can come and ride with us as we take the “Super Hawk” through the Atlanta Hartsville-Jackson airports class bravo airspace on our way to the EAA chapter 38’s Saturday morning breakfast at Warner Robins field in Perry, GA. Hawk Avionics of Calhoun, GA has designed and installed all of the latest electronic equipment available. This equipment enabled us to keep an eye on every airplane arriving at and departing from Atlanta’s class B airspace giving us double protection over top of approach control. The Garmin 600 helped me to keep my altitude and air speed very accurate. The Avidyne EX600 helped me to keep track of the precise location including the altitude of all aircraft. It is truly well worth its weight in gold in collision avoidance. Add in the AuRacle CRM2100 on board engine monitoring system and my airplane nearly fly’s it’s self. All of this equipment is available for sale and installation by Hawk Avionics. If you would like to test this equipment for yourself contact me and schedule a test flight to see for yourself first hand. Do you want to fly the Super Hawk? E-mail me at tommy@34.225.91.143

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Avidyne EX600 MFD with a TAS Traffic system

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Tommy

Avidyne’s EX600 delivers easy-to-use, datalink-ready multifunction display capability for general aviation airplanes & helicopters.

Receive a FREE MLB700 when you buy a new
EX600 MFD with a TAS Traffic system! ($4,745 value)

This promotion is only valid until 3/31/2011

Contact Sean Hachem of Hawk Avionics at

678-463-2096
to schedule a demo of these systems in the SuperHawk.

The EX600 keeps you connected with the complete weather picture, allowing you to view datalink graphical weather information that is seamlessly integrated with your flight plan moving map, lightning, traffic, and terrain display.

The EX600 features an all-new, high-resolution, sunlight-readable transflective color liquid-crystal display that provides the brightest, most versatile big-screen display available. With over 40% more pixels than our previous-generation MFD, and an incredibly wide viewing angle, the EX600 provides the look and feel of big-screen MFDs.

All EX600s include CMax™, providing a world-wide library of geo-referenced approach charts and airport diagrams that help you manage and access critical flight information and reduce the amount of paper required on board your aircraft.
Utilizing Jeppesen’s trusted JeppView™ Electronic Airway Manual, CMax makes accessing an approach or viewing an airport diagram a breeze. At startup, your departure airport chart is automatically loaded for ease of orientation, especially at unfamiliar fields. Your destination airport diagram and the list of available approaches are automatically loaded at the time your flight plan is entered. Charts can also be loaded for nearby airports along your route from the Trip Page using the EX600’s Auto-Fill™.

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Is it time to replace that Instrument Panel?

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Tommy

Over time the instrument panel of any aircraft or practically anything for that matter will deteriorate with age. Factory replacement panels can prove to be very costly not to mention putting you right back in the position to have to replace it again in a few years. Panel Pro™ has developed a revolutionary machine which cut instrument panels with great precision.

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The Panel Pro™ is a computer controlled router optimized for aluminum sheet metal 1/8″ thick. It is at home in avionics shops, Completion centers, or any where complex routing is required. It has an x axis (width) travel of 56 inches, y axis (height) travel of 24 inches, and a z axis (up and down) travel of 2.5 inches. With multiple passes, aluminum as thick as 1/2″ can be cut.

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The primary intended material is aluminum alloys, however any material that is free machining and suitable for fast spindle speeds and light cuts will work just fine. Plastics such as Plexiglas cut very readily. Woods can be cut, but there is a coolant system to flush chips away, and at the present, no vacuum system. Even dead soft aluminum can be machined by slowing Z plunge rate pneumatics and x/y axis feed rates. The coolant system lubricates the end mill to keep material from building up on it.

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Move resolution is .0001968 of an inch (in layman’s terms, just around two ten thousands of an inch). The lead screws have a maximum error of +/- .004″ per foot. The accuracy of cut lines is affected to some degree by the flexing of the 1/8 inch carbide end mill. Using a rough and fine cut, hole diameters can be held to better than .002″ with a very light burr and good surface finish. Each Panel Pro™ 5624a is laser measured for lead screw accuracy and stored in a file. This file is used to zero out lead screw error. The 5624 has hard stops on the right side so that the squareness can be checked and reset easily.

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While Instrument panels are it’s specialty, the Panel Pro™ is equally at home fabricating brackets, doublers, switch and connector plates, flat pattern mounting trays, and even honeycomb material. Optional engraving hardware is available. You can use the Panel Pro™to digitize panels with the measure pro accessory.

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Let Panel Pro take the guess work out of your next instrument panel and let Hawk Aviation Maintenance help you with your panel. The staff at Hawk Aviation Maintenance is highly trained with The Panel Pro and can design, Fabricate and install your next panel. Give them a call at 706-659-4254 or visit them on the web at http://hawkav.com/index.html

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A new video of “The Super Hawk”

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Tommy

SuperHawk

This Cessna super Hawk is of the most technically advanced aircrafts around. Sporting a Avidyne EX600 MFD, Avidyne TWX670 Color Lightning System, Garmin GNS 430 with WAAS, Garmin SL30 NAV/COMM, Garmin GTX 327 Transponder Garmin G600 Glass Panel, Avidyne TAS600 Active Traffic System
Avidyne MLB700 Datalink Weather (with Sirius), Garmin GMA 347 Audio Panel, AuRACLE CRM 2100 Glass Panel Engine Monitor, Aerospace Logic FL-100 Fuel Gauge

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EAA chapter 976 in Carrollton, GA

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Tommy

EAA Chapter 976 was formed in the latter part of 1990, but the idea went back a little before that time. You see, Al Fowler taught a Sunday School Class in Douglasville and guess who happened to be in that class. That’s right, Tom Howard, Hal Coonley and Don Bowlick. They say that the Chapter was not planned in that class, but no one really believes them. It was in that class along with several flying trips that EAA Chapter 976 was hatched. Chuck Pease and Hal Coonley volunteered the use of the Possom Works at W. Ga. Regional Airport for chapter meetings and Tom Howard was the connection with EAA National.