portable electronic atitude indicators

[trake]

Recently AVIATION CONSUMER mag has written favorably about a couple of products from Pcflightsystems. eGyro is a rectangular box, battery powered, that sits on the glareshield. eGyro2 fits in an instrument hole and runs off the cigarette lighter. Obviously theyre not IFR approved and are for emergency backup only. They seem like a good option for the VFR only crowd looking for an alternative to the ugly, heavy and draggy venturi driven system on our 170s. Anybody have experience with these things or thoughts? The PDA based horizons look like a spagetti factory.

[zero.one.victor]

A guy I know pulled the AH DG (& TC?) from his Glasstar & installed some kind of EFIS, don't recall the brand name. It mounts in a 3" instrument hole, but unfortunately intrudes on the adjacent holes (in a standard "6-pack" flight instrument cluster). It's really a nice set-up, has electronic displays of AH, DG, ribbon airspeed indicator,etc. But why bother for a VFR airplane? At least it's lighter than all the vacuum stuff. Purchase price was a bit more than $2K as I recall.

Eric