Jim Burns wrote:
: Over the weekend the DG in our Aztec turned TU. (or heading bug down)

: I googled aircraft gyro repair and overhaul and an Avweb article came up
: that mentioned The Gyro House. So I pulled their website up. It showed
: that they had overhauled autopilot DG's so I emailed them for a quote on a
: direct replacement for ours.

: $625 plus $1200 core charge. The $625 was comparable to other overhaulers,
: I have no idea if the $1200 core charge is reasonable but after reading this
: thread I'm glad I sent ours out to a local shop for repair.

I would have sworn we sent ours to a place called The Gyro House, but it was
in Kansas IIRC. They were very reasonable... $600 to initially have the AI
overhauled, and the DG replaced with a sigmatek. After we installed the overhauled
DG, it had a bit of "jitter," shaking about \pm 2 degrees in flight. I called the
guy, and it wasn't a problem to swap it out. We ended up with our *old* DG sigmatek
(EDO-AIR) that he'd overhauled and shelved in the meantime (1 week or so). Very
pleased.

-Cory


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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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