How much are your fees?

Hi there. I would like a portrait painting of my wife and kids. How can I contact you so we can discuss more about this?

Was your housing destroyed in a missile strike or was your area also occupied by Russians? Great work, all the best.

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How did you get into painting and why did you decide to focus on pets? Beautiful work btw!

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Ohhhh ok, that makes sense. I figured I'd mention my nationality just because it's a completely seperate classification and license process as compared to M classifications here, so I felt it was important to avoid confusion

I'm an aircraft mechanic. I know what avionics and aviation electronics are. I was being facetious about you qualifying your job description as a "CANADIAN" avionics tech.

Anything aviation grabs my attention, and you mentioning you're Canadian made me want to see more of your side. I like to know what pilots are dealing with, and avionics have changed so much in the 30 years I've been controlling. This AMA was a chance for me to learn a few things and I'm grateful for your presence here.

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Bottom line is Canada was ahead of the curve and created protection zones around Canadian runways to limit antenna transmission power to a certain spec. Furthermore, they have exclusion zones that prohibit antenna installations within a specific area around the runway. They didn't do this in the US. Risk is very much mitigated due to these actions.

Yes, but to my knowledge you could potentially spoof a receiver (not the satellites) to think it's somewhere else.

That's why they use crypto.

Kinda like jamming with a stronger signal, but with a valid one saying you're not where you are.

That's a pretty cool train.

Np. It's gonna be my degree but I heard Canadian salaries don't pay much which is why I was asking. I'll check it out on the net.

What a joke. Guess I'm staying overseas for a while

Recently in Canada there has been issued NOTAMS (notice to airmen) where 5G may or may not interfere with certain functions in auto-land equipped planes. That is really the only new news about cell reception and flying

It's our friendly way of reminding you that you're not wearing any ear protection. You can thank us later

Just make sure you wait until my ear is pressed to the airframe and you don't give me any warning k

Seems to be your guy's thing

Me bang rivet with metal, me no need even 1 year

I guess being opportunistic is something they taught in the SECOND year of school....

If you're working at an AMO, yes

If you own your own AMO, no

Typical avionics, always finding some reason to go home when the hangar door is open for 20m before the plane gets towed out.

Ohhhh yeah, I see where the confusion lies! With something like the DA40NG, you're saving money on no MFD, probably only one pitot static system (so only one ADC), one GEA71 for engine parameters, possibly only one transponder that might not be diversity, no weather radar, etc. The G1000NXi is kind of like the base platform that can accommodate a number of different systems, and a full quote like half a million is something an airliner would get.

Ah ok. I was particularly thinking of aircraft like the Diamond DA40NG, which as far as I can see from the Diamond price list, comes with a G1000 NXi as standard and is in the $600k range.

I’m just a simmer though, not a real pilot … was just curious as to how much of the cost of new planes lies in the avionics.