Sandel ST3400 TAWS

[cptsesso]

Anyone here using one? What are your thoughts about it and any problems?

 

[Headwind]

We use one. We replaced the co-pilots RMI so the view is good for both pilots. It is also a small MFD. We like it, but like most everything it has some problems.
Some things I don't like:
1-Our FPA has a mans voice and the TAWS has a womans voice and sometimes I wish both would be quiet.

2-When you do a Loc. back course (front course ILS) the womans voice keeps shouting "glide slope" "glide slope" and nothing will stop her. If you get a little off glide slope - your passengers will hear her shouting, and they don't understand that on a ILS back course you do not use the GS.

3-It was installed with power from the battery buss. On each engine start the TAWS would spike and you must pull the breaker and reset or just pull the breaker untill both engines were started. We had a different shop move the power source to the avionics buss which gives engine start isolation. That solved this problem.
Factory support is poor due to the deadline and so many units being produced.

HEADWIND

 

[b82rez]

I personally think it's a POS. It was nice because it was intalled on a non-GPS equipped aircraft, and it would show airports.

Other than that I could do without. Also, the dimmimg function you would have to do every leg. So at night you would start up and be blinded by the 20,000 candlepower green display.

 

[Swerpipe]

Love it!

-The GS has to be disabled for BC approahes
-Wish they had auto brightness
-The unit is fantastic and far superioe to what I have seen in other airplanes, specially the Honeywell set-ups

We fly many DME arc in Mexico with step-downs in mountaneous terrain and I can hardly believe we did it before without it...

Get it, that's the one you should get. They have a demo CD available that you can get from Sandel so that you can see what we are saying.