Huck
October 14th 06, 02:16 PM
Hey guys,
I am a fim believer in the edm 700 I have used it in about 4 airplanes
(182 210 421 barron) I find it easy to use and highly reliable. I wish
that I could give you some info on the EI product but I just have no
experience with it. As a professional pilot I fly nearly every day and
I am sure glad to have this piece of equipmet to tell me what my engine
is doing. It really allows you to precisely operate your engine. I also
have fuel flow on the 210 that is the main bird right now and I love
it. It has been truly accurate down to within about 1-3 gallons per
trip. Wish your bussy good flying with whatever he chooses!
matt tiberii
Com CFI CFII
ASEL ASES AMEL
Peter wrote:
> Hi
>
> A colleague (who is not on the internet) is looking at one or the
> other, for his 4-seat IFR tourer.
>
> I personally have an EDM700 and after an initial replacement when new
> (buggy firmware, could not download data to a PC) it has been working
> fine. I am not impressed with the probes; I've had two fail in 4
> years.
>
> The EDM data download feature is dreadful; often I get corrupted
> downloads which need to be emailed to JPI and then I have to hassle
> them to get around to retrieving the data. This tends to result from
> the data queue having overflowed, but obviously one should still be
> able to retrieve data on *complete* flights.
>
> On paper, the EI version looks a lot better, but I have never met
> anybody who has one. They claim more rugged probes in particular.
>
> Any views would be much appreciated.
>
> As an aside, wasn't there a big lawsuit in this department, some years
> ago?
>
> Peter.
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I am a fim believer in the edm 700 I have used it in about 4 airplanes
(182 210 421 barron) I find it easy to use and highly reliable. I wish
that I could give you some info on the EI product but I just have no
experience with it. As a professional pilot I fly nearly every day and
I am sure glad to have this piece of equipmet to tell me what my engine
is doing. It really allows you to precisely operate your engine. I also
have fuel flow on the 210 that is the main bird right now and I love
it. It has been truly accurate down to within about 1-3 gallons per
trip. Wish your bussy good flying with whatever he chooses!
matt tiberii
Com CFI CFII
ASEL ASES AMEL
Peter wrote:
> Hi
>
> A colleague (who is not on the internet) is looking at one or the
> other, for his 4-seat IFR tourer.
>
> I personally have an EDM700 and after an initial replacement when new
> (buggy firmware, could not download data to a PC) it has been working
> fine. I am not impressed with the probes; I've had two fail in 4
> years.
>
> The EDM data download feature is dreadful; often I get corrupted
> downloads which need to be emailed to JPI and then I have to hassle
> them to get around to retrieving the data. This tends to result from
> the data queue having overflowed, but obviously one should still be
> able to retrieve data on *complete* flights.
>
> On paper, the EI version looks a lot better, but I have never met
> anybody who has one. They claim more rugged probes in particular.
>
> Any views would be much appreciated.
>
> As an aside, wasn't there a big lawsuit in this department, some years
> ago?
>
> Peter.
> --
> Return address is invalid to help stop junk mail.
> E-mail replies to but remove the A and the B.
> Please do NOT copy usenet posts to email - it is NOT necessary.