Dual GPS - what's the purpose?

[Den Dee]

Thank you very much Sir Brandon : )

[detpilot]

Here ya go! Any other requests?

[detpilot]

Traffic page:



MFD map page (Good ol' Michigan weather, I know )




Overview:




PFD (note the MFD is on the airport view page):

[SkyAirWorld]

Thats quite a lovely little plane you have there

[Cydon Prax]

The Sirrus is amazing indeed. A hundred and fifty knots? I've never seen anything about 120 or so in the blasted Cessna. The G1000 we
have, though, I personally enjoy. Not sure why, but Glass Cockpit just seems better than analog. Thanks for the shots, Brandon.

Speaking of shots, this is how the G1000 compares to the above:



Close-up of the PFD mid-flight. As I said, we never touch 120 - let alone 150.



Gotta love Garmin.

[AeroJim]

Even though I don't fly with UND aerospace they just blasted the whole fleet with ADS-B. It's a pretty amazing system isn't it guys? What HP is the
Cirrus Brandon, I just got checked out in an Archer and we were blasting the pattern around 100, cruising at 1,000' agl about 140 knots, it was quite
amazing I must say compared to what I'm used too.

[detpilot]

Ah, so you guys want speed huh? This remains the record for the highest I've seen in the Cirrus. We had a 50 knot tailwind, were doing about 175 knots
indicated at 9,000 or so (Descending, but not rapidly). Granted, this was in the 22, which is about 30 knots faster than the 20 (All the pictures
above were in the SR-20, except the one with weather).

Thanks for those pics, Cydon! That's a nice comparison.

SR-20: 200 horsepower.
SR-22: 310 horsepower.





Post Edited ( 07-19-08 18:04 )

[Den Dee]

Thank you both very much for informative pictures : ) Are the 6 temperatures listed on the engine page for separate cylinders?

Too bad RealityXP did not (yet?) publish the 200 : ( So for now I'm stuck with what i have, which is 530, a Sandel TAWS/TCAS and a WX-
500 weather radar.

[detpilot]

Are the 6 temperatures listed on the engine page for separate cylinders?

Yep!

[cbohache]

The purpose of dual GPS at the moment is redundant systems. In the future, supposedly near but the FAA and technology are never on the same page, a
majority of navigation will be point-to-point. It will be no different than having two nav radios. It is especially important with the advent of
WAAS. Having dual GPS ensures that you will still be able to shoot the most accurate GPS approaches.

[crowebird]

well i never saw this topic, but now that it has been brought back from a 5 month death I must state that I hate brandon and your getting to
fly the cirrus, I have been inside one at an open house at my local airport kptk, but other than that I have only been in the air inside the
sr22g2 via fs9 :/

I closest thing I have flown RL is the diamond star, which is a nice airplane, but nothing compared to the sirrus...

[KenG]

Some of our King Airs have 3 GPS.

1 GPS for each of the Universal UNS-1 Super FMS of which we have two (pilots and copilots) and 1 more special GPS. Together the three GPS allows us to
operate down to RNP 0.3 in both a WAAS and normal environments. Predictive RAIM will notify us if a plotted course will allow us to maintain our RNP
level or if we will operate in a degraded mode. Predictive RAIM is RNP 0.3 for approaches and RNP 3 for the enroute segement.