What's a radio stack really cost?

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 03:47:55 GMT, "Jim Carter"
wrote:

I'm looking at a Skymaster that is mechanically in very good shape, but
is absolutely (just barely) VFR. It has more boat anchors in it than
Tracker Boats sells in a month. So..if a mid-time multi-rated,
instrument pilot was going to spend money on a new radio stack, how much
would he or she have to spend?



I'm assuming something along the lines of the following:



* GMA 340 audio panel

* GMX 200/traffic MFD

* Dual SL30 nav/comms

* GPS 400 gps

* GTX 330 transponder

* MD 200 VOR/LOC/GS indicator

* GI 102 VOR/LOC indicator

* GDL 69 XM receiver


That is over $20k in avionics, you can expect 50+% of that to install.
So a minimum of $30k.