REFLECTOR: MGL oshkosh

[Michael Watson]

Go with the GRT HX,  Outstanding graphics, top notch support, financially
stable.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Jack Prock <jackprock at comcast.net> wrote:

>  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 <bill.stockman at daytonaero.com>
> *To:* Velocity xl <velocityxl at fastmail.fm> ; Velocity Aircraft Owners and
> Builders list <reflector at tvbf.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, July 31, 2009 6:31 AM
> *Subject:* Re: REFLECTOR: MGL oshkosh
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>  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.
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> *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
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> http://www.mglavionics.com/html/odyssey.html
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> Any one look at this unit at Oshkosh?
>
> I really liked it  $6000 for every thing including
>
> the engine probs.
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> http://www.aviation.levil.com/EFIS.htm
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> 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.
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> Price of $4000 really is all that I saw was good about it.
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> Any thoughts
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> Ron
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Mike W.
1997 Velocity Elite RG
Franklin /IVO Electric CS
Dual GRT EFIS HX Synthetic Vision
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