It’s done! The new Trig TY96 8.33 spacing radio has passed the airborne check with flying (ha) colours, so the aircraft is ready for the change in requirements coming at the end of 2017. The radio is excellent and has some really cool features including the play button to replay the last received transmission. Saves having to clutter up the airwaves with “say again?”
The paperwork has been sent off to Engineering at the Light Aviation Association and we’re waiting for the avionics approval to come back. The airtest also tested the transponder and altitude encoder so it involved heading down towards Edinburgh and getting help from ATC.
Trig Avionics is located in Edinburgh so it was good to support a local company and “shop local”
If it’s an avionics airtest then I must be a test pilot…right? Right?
(With apologies to Tom from my RAF Jet Provost course, who really IS a test pilot)