Lear Doctor,
Thanks for your thorough reply, I think that with the increasing use of shiny new avionic equipment in light a/c, this could be a field which is worth getting interested in, albeit that most of the new kit we are seeing is likely not to be serviceable in the field.
The larger aircraft field is not something that grabs me. Maybe this is the wrong attitude to hold, but if you maladjust a pot or do some bad soldering (and hey, we all make mistakes) then people can die in large numbers.
1 Yes, I have never even seen a King radio in bits. Funnily enough I saw a scrap one for sale on ebay but at the time I hadn’t a thought in my head of obtaining it.
I also imagine that all of the wiring which supports the radio and nav kit is complicated, prone to damage and difficult to get at.
2 The ATC600A looks rather specialised and reassuringly expensive. I imagine the manual for this piece of kit is a hundred pages long.
Publications with an update service are going to be prohibitively expensive.
Can you really make this job pay?
3 Oh, the unbridled joy of the CAA!
I suspect that the BCAR-R will vanish in the coming years. The politics demand it. Whether or not this will go into a simplified JAR 66 B2 I do not know, but it seems the logical route.
Noisy