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If someone is looking for a task to do, the AI broke on OH-CTL and they deemed it made sense to replace it with a solid-state gyro driven Garmin G5.. :-)

This is actually the size of the artificial horizon, so it is a small one. So it has all the data of the six, but "legal-wise" you probably need the backup gauges too. It would look pretty silly to have just this in the panel :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lbnaswgGrM

The thing with these electronic instruments is that they are more reliable and cheaper than the mechanical gauges, so it is not really unrealistic to see these in older GA aircraft too. When the old gauges break and need to be replaced the next time. these things are a very interesting option.

Actually, looks like AOPA (the airplane pilots and owners association in the US) is refurbishing a 172 for their annual giveaway lottery - this page has some details on what they do:

https://www.aopa.org/membership/sweeps

in case someone feels like painting and hacking some refurbishings to our 172 as a variant... :-)

@tigert that's really cool!

The thing with these electronic instruments is that they are more reliable and cheaper than the mechanical gauges, so it is not really unrealistic to see these in older GA aircraft too.

I was going to ask why it was replaced with one of these, but that makes sense :smile:

This instrument should be added to FGDATA so it can be reused by multiple models.