Experimenter is a magazine created by EAA for people who build airplanes. We will report on amateur-built aircraft as well as ultralights and other light aircraft.
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S un 'n F un 2 013 from the back side, install and tighten four small bolts, and you're ready to snap and twist on the appropriate holder for full-size or mini iPads and tighten it all at the angle you desire. But another option exists, one excellently executed for sailplanes and light experimental aircraft—a standalone, solid-state sensor package to supply attitude and air data to the G-HULP system independent of any aircraft systems or electrical power. An extension is also available that can add to the angles and rotation options. Best of all, this system is pretty universal and a snap for anyone with the skills to build a plane. According to the company, G-HULP can run for hours on a small battery, or for as long as an electrical system supplies power in installations with an electrical system. A MyGoFlight iPad mount, coupled with the upcoming iPad Mini mounting case and the Clarity SV, can make for a powerful weather, traffic, and standby instrument system. To learn more, visit www.mygoflight.com/aviation. Pricing starts at about $5,000 for a system that works with installed sensors, $6,000 for the G-HULP package with its own independent air- and attitude-data sensors. To learn more, visit www.patavionics.com/index.php/en. Heads-Up: HUD Comes to Experimental Aviation Another way to see your attitude, whether standby or main system, comes from fledgling avionics maker P.A.T. Avionics. The company brought something new to Sun 'n Fun— an honest heads-up display, or HUD. HUD-like systems have been attempted before for light general aviation but failed to catch on. For the Yokers in the Crowd This one may break that pattern. To use the articulating clipboard, the cover pivots into the down position on a pair of stainless-steel pins, allowing the pilot to scribble clearances and notes somewhere other than the palm of the other hand. And when mounted on a yoke, this puts the tool holding the tablet directly in front of the pilot, much like an approach plate holder. P.A.T. Avionics' G-HULP is billed by the company as the first heads-up display designed and developed for sport aircraft, from sailplanes to experimentals to light-sport aircraft. This G-HULP delivers the information you'd expect to see on a primary flight display, formatted as on most PFD screens. A projector under the glareshield and a collector on the glareshield work together through a control cluster installed in the panel. This modular system can be installed and wired to the solid-state attitude and airdata sensors of PFD products such as those from Aspen, Dynon, and Garmin. 24 Vol.2 No.6 / June 2013 The new iPro Navigator mount from ForPilotsOnly is now available for the iPad mini, complete with a cover that protects the screen from sunlight and thus overheating, and it allows some writing-pad-like use. Don't want or need the clipboard for this flight? Slide it upward and off and put it away; reverse the removal process to return it to its stowed or useful positions. Should turbulence, a hard landing, or other movement in the cockpit put significant force on the clipboard—snap! It comes off, safely and replaceable. For more information, visit www.ForPilotsOnly.com. Photography by Dave Higdon