REFLECTOR: MGL oshkosh

Mon Aug 3 11:52:19 CDT 2009

I have been following MGL for about a year now. There is a Yahoo forum that you can follow that the president of MGL
is a participant on. I have not bought an EFIS yet and after being really excited about their product at first,
I have lost a bit of enthusiasm over the year. 

I think their financials at the moment are very good. And their customer service seems top-notch. How many other
companies can you send a message to the president of the company and have him discuss your issues in an 
open forum. They seem to have a good following of customers and except for the normal customer service items,
no one is bad mouthing them.

The software in their unit is very dynamic and changes frequently. The good thing is a suggestion made on the forum
will get included in their next rev of software within a month or so. Their units are VERY software initialization intensive.
You need to set many, many items in the configuration for it to work correctly. Others, (GRT, DYNON, etc.) are a 
bit more off-the-shelf. . I am a software engineer,so this doesn't bother me, but it could be overwhelming for some. 
Since I have set up none of them, this is just a casual observation

Also, the graphics hardware that MGL uses is not great. If you look at the moving map and icons placed on the map, 
it looks a bit low quality. 

At the moment I am leaning towards the Grand Rapids. The price is a bit higher, but the look and feel of the graphics
is more professional to me and their software seems to go through a more thorough QA process. 

Jack Prock
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stockman, Bill 
  To: Velocity xl ; Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list 
  Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 6:31 AM
  Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: MGL oshkosh

  I think the phrase is "buyer beware."   I applaud these firms for developing and selling these new products.  However, as one of many "proud" owners of a blue mountain EFIS One (I actually own two  of them), be very, very careful of these early promises.   Greg R. at BM worked very hard to bring out new and innovative products-which were and still are better than many of the products on the market today-but never could get his hands around the production and support issues.   He was a great engineer, but a lousy businessman.   If ever buy another EFIS system (my BM system is working great a this point), I'll consider paying extra for an established company.

  From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On Behalf Of Velocity xl
  Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 9:22 AM
  To: reflector at tvbf.org
  Subject: REFLECTOR: MGL oshkosh

  http://www.mglavionics.com/html/odyssey.html

  Any one look at this unit at Oshkosh?

  I really liked it  $6000 for every thing including 

  the engine probs.

  http://www.aviation.levil.com/EFIS.htm

  This one looked interesting also  but was not near as slick as the  MGL or the Dynon units.

  The AHRS unit really seamed to lag behind the move ment and gets real confused if you move

  it to fast.   Also being a windows based unit does concern  me a bit.

  Price of $4000 really is all that I saw was good about it.

  Any thoughts 

  Ron

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