Beautiful project, best in class! Like you said, feasible in an experimental, bravo!

Great video. Really love and appreciate the details you provide. Great camera work too. The quality of your videos is wonderful!

I’m planning to do something extremely similar: a dual screen light IFR panel (Garmin WAAS GPS only as well) with the VPX and PPS too, but with Dynon instead of Garmin for the rest. You’ll have quite a lot of panel for an S-21, but your reasoning is exactly why I want to do the same and it is going to serve you well. Can’t wait to see you dive into the install!

That looks amazing

That's going to be a very cool panel. And designing the paint scheme looks fun too - back in the day (some forty years ago) we did that process with felt tips and lots of paper👍😄😄✌️

Nice job Steve, always a class job!

SaWeeeet. GREAT video. LOVE this set up. It is gonna ROCK when all set up. THANK YOU for sharing this info. This will be a BIG help as I redesign my panel in my Avid Magnum. 😊 Best regards from. CYQT 👍🇨🇦👍

In my opinion you can never have too much information. Yes, a minimalist panel has it's place, but if planning to travel, give me tons of information. Looks great!

great work there man, I did a similar thing on my Eurofox, I basically copied Trent Palmer's cockpit pit so it's basically the same as his and very similar to yours. I'm still doing my training, but having and seeing an autopilot work really blew my mind, I had a Cessna 172R which had basic steam gages, so these new features in the Eurofox are incredible to say the least, I'm so excited to get to know the system better!

Lol. Super cool. But to be honest, that table was what was really grabbing my attention. 😉

Great vid. I use dual Dynon HDX.

Congratulations awesome stuff there. hello from Australia.

Very Nice first off... great looking panel. This is essentially is the same package I am considering. Second... Thanks for explaining in a more straight forward manner the component integration and networking. Without doing a lot of research, its confusing how each device interlocks with one another and all the redundancy involved with, say, the auto pilot controls and accessability across the stack so to speak. Really good video!!!

You might want to think of adding a physical ‘fun switch’ or AP power disconnect. The Garmin AP will have the safety ESP modes running in the background and it’s a little cumbersome to turn that off in the heat of battle. When it’s time for steep turns and high bank maneuvering you won’t want ESP intervention. Plus it’s a good backup for a quick additional AP disconnect if the one on the stick is acting up. I know it can all be done within the G3x and vertical power box…but sometimes you just want the AP off….for sure.

Cool idea about the VR livery. What many people do is finding you plane model in a flight sim and then swapping out the livery for your own. Also gives you a nice idea how it looks in flight. VR is included with most sims anyway.

Awesome panel, nice gear.

And I thought mine had all the doodads… Nice job Steve! I didn’t even know there was an option for auto wigwags. Those virtual circuit breakers are pretty slick to. Would also be nice to have a dome light. But hey I do have a TOGA button though🤣

Beautiful, literally 98% exactly what I’m putting in my RV7. Although, as I understand it, you do not need the 245 for two comms. The G3X will handle up to two comms. But, the 245 is a cool device either way.

Thanks for the overview and explanation. Amazing panel! If you find yourself needing to complete an IPC, will you need to use a different aircraft for the precision approach requirement? (GPS WAAS is considered non-precision, even with LPV).

The Molex USB chargers...do you know if they are RF proof designed...in other words a lot of USB chargers are dirty they put out a lot of switching noise. It gets up the radio. Have you had a chance to test this yet?...Also where did you get them?

Good channel Freq!

Nice panel (I know...that's what she said). Affordable upgrades is one of the best things about experimental aircraft.

That aircraft livery VR design idea is super cool. Also, is there an advantage to a pitot-static mast rather than the standalone pitot tube and does it matter either performance or cost wise? I've always prefered buttons to touch screens, easier to press a button to get what you want if you're getting bumped around. Super annoying flying IFR struggling to input a frequency or flight plan on touch screen sometimes.

Mike Gearon and I in Australia are ready to purchase the avionics pack. Any chance you could share your complete order and wiring diagram? Everything you layed out in the video. We are going to buy exactly the same kit. Also, did you get the landing lights from RANS? I came in late on this S21 build but Im catching up.

Hard to figure out what flight capabilities you lose with the gnx over the gtn. Night flying for example, assuming need gtn...?

A&P here, I also went all Garmin in old Turbo Glasair 1- r/g, same equment except I used GTN750XI and mr. Ross's SDS EFI & E- ignition. so far 18 mounts of very a complicated avionics installation. LMAO

Did you look at approachfaststack for your wiring harnesses? Looks like a good plug-n-play option.

Thanks for posting this. It’s almost the exact bill of materials I am planning on for my sling high wing. Did you look at the Garmin height advisor? Especially for backcountry flying. I think it would be handy. Also, those are pretty good looking switch rockers. What brand are they, or were they custom-made?

As a college student, I don't even wanna think about how much that would cost in total.💀

Just Curious, what does it all weigh?

can't wait to start building my rans s-21...will you help me

I went dual Dynon HDX. Super easy to use.

Oh yea...that’s nuts.

Drooling 🤤 🤤🤤🤤😂👍

You have the G5 for back up but the G3Xs both have battery back up and redundant GPS.... you have two of them, do you really need the G5?

Why the back up battery first, then the master? Your on the ground, the second thing you do is the master, what function does the Back up first serve?

Price?

Oh you & I can be friends!

Someones been watching too much mike patey! Haha 😄 🤣

Makes me feel kinda silly for bemoaning aircraft spruce's prices on nut plates for my scratch built. Super nice......I'm a little jelly..

Like a Mike Patey build , but less spastic.

Im a tech geek as well so my plane will be overkill and all glass, this day in time no reason to go old six pack

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing

The VR interface for paint scheme design is an awesome idea, thanks Steve! Did your graphic designer also create the CAD model for the S-21, or did RANS supply it? I’m right now working on a 3D model for my Kitfox build - initially it was with a view to making 3D printed/painted models, but doing it in VR makes so much sense! 😎 That’s going to be a super Garmin panel to fly behind - and help ‘acclimatise’ the next-gen ‘Children of the Magenta’ to all the benefits and pitfalls* of glass cockpits. After flying behind the Garmin 3000 for a few years, I can’t speak highly enough of the ergonomics of Garmin avionics 💗 💗 💗 Does your reversion (red map) switch function by swapping PFD and MFD functions between each G3X, or does it kill power to G3X #1 to force G3X #2 into a reversionary mode? Lastly, beautiful as your carbon panel is, how are its crash credentials? I’ve only heard carbon can be notorious for splintering and rupturing violently under overload - hence why many prefer to use imitation-carbon-wrap over aluminium panels, plasticky as that may be. - - - - - - - - - - - - * From experience, the SINGLE best piece of advice I can offer anyone flying a modern glass cockpits is ‘North-up on MFD map’ - or at the very least, selecting north-up at the first signs of GPS signal degradation, most often caused by a NOTAM’d military activity. The problem arises only after loss of GPS signal to the moving map - at that point, the map becomes frozen in the last-good track-up orientation. Thereafter, attempting to visualise successive (radar) headings on a non-north-up map can create an increasingly excessive mental workload/distraction, regardless of experience. I’d even argue that turning a track-up MFD map OFF and reverting to a mental model in that situation could be the safest thing to do. That said, now imagine the further additional workload a two-crew environment brings in the ensuing obligatory discussion - when neither of you are expecting a such a strong visual distraction from an otherwise very useful tool. Blue skies! 😎