The Great Loop is the name for an aquatic adventure that circumnavigates the eastern United States. Starting (for Dolly and I) it leaves Tarpon Springs, Florida; goes to the Atlantic thru Lake Okeechobee; up the East Coast to New York; up the Hudson River to the Erie Canal; then to the Great Lakes; South through Chicago to the Mississippi; transfers to the Tennessee River and the Ten-Tom waterway to Mobile, Alabama; and back across the Gulf to Tarpon Springs. At our speed it will take the better part of seven to eight months. Our Great Loop adventure is set to begin tomorrow, Monday April 14, 2025. Weather forecast for the Gulf of America near our starting point is wave heights of one foot or less. So, the plan is to go outside from the Anclote river down to lower Tampa Bay.
Washing the plane
Recently I became interested in creating videos with Power Director software while starting to code a flight simulator version of the Garmin G3X instrument. Coincidentally, Dolly has a very nice camera tripod. I took it to airport and captured the following video on my iPhone. Click on the photo below to watch the video on Youtube.
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Flight Simulator Instrument Development
For two months I’ve been using spare time to code a Garmin G3X display instrument for the flight simulator community.
The G3X system is for both experimental and certified aircraft. It includes the GDU460, a ten inch touch screen multi page display shown above. Our plane (N50KB) has two on its instrument panel.
I have initially focused on coding the five engine instrument panels. Click on the image below to see a video of progress to date.
