Fly a Lancair Evolution with Xavion!
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2020
- This is a full demo flight of Xavion in Austin Meyers' Lancair Evolution.
From corona-virus drunken-fugue to a white-board explanation of Xavion to a complete flight in N844X, I take you through a day in the life of Xavion. Running time 53 minutes... this isn't short, but if you learn this, then you will know Xavion well!
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Having completed two engine-out landings over the last 32 years, I have a great appreciation for this. Though I'm a Mooney / Model S guy, myself.
This is an absolute revolution. very very innovate...Your jet isnt too far off in the future if you keep this up!
The way your app approximates AOA, IAS and wake turbulence is awesome and an ingenious idea Austin!
I know nothing about aviation but I found this video so amazing. It was really fun to think about such a niche but essential product that you designed, really really cool to learn about all the deep thought that went into it.
Amazing Austin! Congratulations on such a wonderful creation and contribution to aviation safety, affordability and ease of use.
As a user of foreflight I must say your program is quite impressive. The aircraft isn't bad either!! Thank you
As a HUGE fan of ForeFlight, you are starting to win me over Austin. I tried Xavion a year ago, I will give it another try as things clearly have progressed. One idea for you, I fly an amphib, if Xavion could consider water areas greater than 3,000’ long a runway, there would be a whole lot more options for the emergency landings for Xavion to consider. Great presentation, you have a Steve Jobs quality with your excitement for your products.
Thank you Austin, this APP is great! It's like a real time RNP procedure
Am-a-zing! I am floored... very well done Austin!
Big fan of Xavion and X-Plane. Thanks Austin.
Thank you for all your work Xplane Boss
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This is brilliant,
I have wondered for the longest time, why no independent calculation of indicated air speed, due to risk of pitot blocking etc.
totally agree, this could be a massive safety feature, even in commercial liners.
This is a magnificent app , love your creativity .
Loved it, really shows you what smart integration of software can do with given data packages. I am sure the emergency feature will save peoples lives down the line.
Revolutionary app and excellent demo.
Awesome app and beautiful airplane! Well done!
Absolutely fantastic. I'm getting back into flying after a 25 year break, and I will be purchasing Xavion.
Amazing app Austin. Excellent 👍
I installed xavion and configured for x-plane 11. So impressive! This is a lifesaver... I thought foreflight had everything, but now I know there are a number of safety features missing.
It seems like austin is in the cockpit w/ you when he starts talking :-).
Thank you Austin for the Xavion demo! I appreciate it. Also I plan on making a trip to KCUB first week in September so seeing the airport surroundings was very helpful as well prior to my flight to visit my daughter & her family who just moved there in the area. Again thank you for showing how to use the visual approaches as well on the Xavion. :-) Don/NE Ohio
Now if I can just get my glide speeds down to accuracy in the Xavion app that would make me very happy...I am stuggling to get the right glide speeds recorded in my Cherokee 180 Challenger but I'll keep trying!
Fantastic. You are a gift to the world sir.
This was fascinating! Good work on the app. Best of luck.
This is so clever Austin well done 👏
Keep that Shiny side up, Austin! Proud of all you’ve accomplished. Lyman H.
Neat vid, Austin. In NASA space shuttle lingo, your "spools" would be HACs, (heading alignment circles). Reminded me of shuttle landing methodology. When I was in light aircraft flight training in '94, my instructor used to cut throttle to idle and tell me I'd just lost my engine. When he did this, I was sure he already had in mind where he wanted me to target a landing, and I got pretty good at reading his mind (he liked cow trails, side roads & beaches). Wonderful technology this APP. Makes me miss flying.
Truly innovative, leading into the direction of where things are heading to, all software based.
Love it, truly an innovating app and tool for aviation
Mike looking like Emmett Brown and you opening the video by looking like a mad scientist? Too good, Austin. Too good.
Very nice. I have the app for my Cessna 182M. I have a lap board for my iPad and usually have Foreflight running on it. Once I am near the airport I bring up Xavion.
This is a fantastic app absolutely fantastic!
Awesome stuff, Austin! I'm going to download the app to check it out in my plane. The wake turbulence visualization is really cool -- I'm especially excited to see that. One note: the Aspen Avionics displays do AOA without an external AOA probe as well. I'm not sure what their approach is. Also: I don't see the Garmin GDL-52 listed as one of your supported ADS-B receivers. Any chance of adding it, or is Garmin making that difficult?
Wow this is really cool!
GAME CHANGER........I pray u have patent pending on this at least. Oh that aircraft is a speed demon. I couldn’t believe the 2500ft climb at that altitude n how quickly u can slow it down n then get back up to speed again. Very impressive
This makes me want to own a plane.
Until you have to pay for it.
@@hootowl6354 true that
incredible! Well done!
That prop pitch changing!!!!! Yaaaasssss! So cool.
LOL "Buy it now... Boom" Lmao
Excellent app and video (and airplane!). The safety features and ease of use are amazing. One question- when given assigned altitudes on an instrument approach, will the boxes adjust for this? (Or do they stay at the 3 degree glidepath?) (i.e Can you "set" the altitude of the boxes?)
You enter a route at ANY altitude you like... the boxes go to that altitude for sure, for ENOUTE NAV. But THEN, for the ins approach, it steps down to minimums. And for VFR approaches it descends smoothly to the runway, and for power-off approaches the hoops come down to match how the airplane will.
So pragmatic in the approach to simplifying complex problems...
Austin, you need to start manufacturing your own experimental EFIS displays. Imagine the integration and preflight familiarisation benefits thaf customers will benefit from going between X-Plane and their own aircraft, let alone the people that would install your screens purely for the safety benefits. And then you can sell stripped down EFIS screens to home PC pilots that want a tangible, tactile experience.
Why haven't I seen this before . Wow !!!
How is this not standard? Recently just started flying, gonna do my first checkride soon and even flying in the planes I realized how dated technology is even on the glass panels, and with planes in general.
How cool would this app be projected on to the plane's windshield.
Amusing you are a the best. Tanks for your work
If a pilot put in the lat and long and best landing direction of emergency landing sites around his local airport, would it be possible to program Xavion to guide the pilot to one of these sites in case of a engine failure during take-off assuming that no actual airport is in range? The pilot could get the information off satellite maps or by doing local research.
I always hit my own wake "bump" on 360-degree steep turn in a Cessna. But not sure if there is ever a safety issue with larger aircraft encountering their own wake. Would it be helpful to have ownship also lay wake turbulence "eggs" if circumstances warrant?
Said this before, but - awesome functionality. Would love to see you license your functionality (airspeed, AoA, wake turbulence, emergency glide, 3D airspace) to Foreflight to make the ultimate solution.
Instead, im adding features to xavion to make it complete
This will save a lot of lives.
Austin, great idea, amazing execution! Do you have compensation for obsticles on the approach? steeper glide slopes? What about localizers that use a different heading than the runway due to terrain? Thanks! Keep them coming!!!
Any obstacle on any approach DQ's that approach for consideration. You will only be shown an approach that intersects no obstacle in the database I have.
@@austinmeyer thanks. Another question, if I may: what do I need to learn to be able to program this type of system. Let's say I'm somebody with a little programming experience (Javascript) and an Instrument rating. I understand how it all works in theory, I'd just love to be able to code my visions into reality like you have.
@@ethugp3pp3r I use OpengGL for graphics, and C++ for coding, on iOS.
Any hoops that intersect an obstacle are discarded as useless, and never presented. A DIFFERENT approach would be shown.
@@austinmeyer thanks, your first answer did the job, heh. It's an honor to have e-met you.
lol... okay, I like this guy. I've decided to finally purchase X-Plane today. lol
What a fascinating piece of software you engineered. That part of the 'wake turbulence' tracking reminds me of a mouse in a maze program we had to write in a computer class way, way back. And then we had to make the trail invisible. Of course we didn't have to compensate for wind drift and drop off. Lol
That is a fascinating looking plane. What's it's cruise altitude and speed?
Loved watching this video and I'm not a pilot and only have a short amount of stick time from 40 or 50 years ago.
Cruise 300 knots (exactly Mach 0.50) at 28,000 ft.
This is an excellent idea, especially if comms are lost.
Austin is a freaking aviation genius.
Amazing.
Does Xavion co-exist/run in background with other EFBs?
I use Garmin Pilot on both iPad for cockpit and Android for planning/backup usage. Will Xavion run along side GP in the iPad.
Paul.
I have watched several of your You Tubes videos and as a fellow inventor .... critical thinker ... In this video what caught my attention was the indicated air speed. I would like to share another method, which you might consider incorporating as a cross check for determining the indicated air speed within 2 to 3 seconds or any time the plane inters a Standard-Rate turn.
Only one of about 25 pilots could do this and it is a great arrow to have in your quiver when the air speed is in question.
Answer: Simply roll into a 2 min Standard-Rate turn; then multiply the bank angle by 2/3 (0.667) x 10:
Example: Determine Air Speed ...: 12 deg bank angle = 8 (which is 2/3 of 12) x 10 = Air speed of 80.
The reverse is the estimating bank angle for a Standard-Rate turn ...: Air Speed / 10 + (1/2 the dividend).
Example: Determine the Standard-Rate bank angle: with an Air speed of 60 ...: = 6+3 = 9 deg bank angle;
I have some other ideas/solutions for your app for measuring Icing buildup and measuring CG in flight; which your app is capable of doing.
As-well-as some thoughts on electrical noise + power failure / electrical fires, also in flight de-icing.
george@zlan.com Also www.GSharpLabs.com
oh cool (if I have the time and presence of mind to do that in an emergency)... but to be honest.. I don't even know how to DO a 2-minute turn in my airplane! I have garmin 1000... no turn indicator in the cockpit! 😲
This app is awesome! So many ingenious possibly life saving features! I got the app and am looking forward to trying it out. One question, does this app have the ability to map TFRs?
Darn sorry.. not currently done.. may be done at some point.
What a great idea and implementation! This has huge potential to be a lifesaver for a pilot who doesn’t have the time or money to practice engine failures over and over.
I am curious as to why you went with “spools” rather than an orbit over a runway. This app seems to overfly closer suitable airfields by design in order to achieve a planned glide speed, but the alternative is to just orbit over the landing runway to lose excess energy until ready to configure and begin a final approach. Also, why use a flat prop to calculate worst glide? If your engine is failed, the prop would be feathered, making your sink rate at worst glide speed less in a real engine failure scenario than what was entered in the app.
Curious to hear Austin's answer, but the orbit over the field thing did not end well for the Boutique air Pilatus - though he appears to have complicated his own situation with poor ADM. Can't help but wonder if this software might have saved him.
Please get this going for UK or Europe. This looks brilliant and would probably give the existing efb guys a run for their money
Great APP, thank you :-)
this guy is a legend.
somebody who understands margin of error/safety,
i'm listening,
good logical thinking,
p.s. any thoughts on multi-story car park margin of safety with the advent of 3 tonne electric SUV's ?
Brilliant, Austin...simply brilliant! Pun intended.
Does Xavion work with the F4 Phantom? :D lol!!
Wow, so cool, and it works with X-Plane 11
Brilliant product! Do you think there is a danger of pilot "flying Xavion" in VFR conditions and not looking outside often enough?
Agreed on both fronts! I too found myself staring at the ipad the entire time and not even noticing clouds. I was also thinking many people would mount an ipad on the windshild or covering other gauges since the cockpit is typically already void of space. In doing so limit valuable info. Regardless, I was very impressed with the app!
Great stuff! Can we use this on X-Plane (with the X-Plane default navdata) so we can try it out before getting a subscription?
Yes, please give us x-xevion
yes, easy. one setting change in x-plane settings.
Xavion has a 30 day free demo now, and it can also be used in X-Plane.
what about Xavion charts for Canada? can you import them?
When is the Xavion plugin for X-Plane due out? :-)
Please Austin provide app support for Australian Pilots.
Awesome, Austin. In how many devices can I run it with single subscription? Tx
infinity. an apple purchase is always for a single apple id. it goes by id not device.
@@austinmeyer ∞, cool! Love your products, dude.
Absolutely AMAZING app. But does it work up in Canada?
Free 30 day demo.. find out!
@austinmeyer Ref 30:38 ❤ Austin: This Xavion style optimum gliding approach could make the whole airline industry greener and help reduce carbonoxide emissions drastically! Xavion should be made mandatory for any aircraft except gliders!❤
I love this guy. He made me start doing my PPL.
Can you customize or add know landing fields or know usable roads for emergency landings? Would be a great feature for local flights like for ultralights, or backcountry.
Yep! You can add all the custom landing spots you want… It is in the custom airports tab on the left side of the menus. And whenever you get a new iPad, the app will Wi-Fi the custom airport to the new pad if you have both pads at once on the same Wi-Fi network
@Austin Meyer impressive, will definitely use this. Do you know if this is compatible with "Ilevil BOM" for receiving adsb.?
@@jesseperez7253 it is, yes
@Austin Meyer Thank You Austin. I see you thought of everything.
I love xavion, however I haven’t found a solution to work to feed the attitude information to xavion properly. What do you use for that Austin?
Stratus 3... or nothing at all use internal attitude (not quite as good)
Austin Meyer thank you!
According to your explanation you don't get a IAS reading but rather an CAS reading. Depending on the airplane in question it might be significant.
An A330 from Air France crashed killing all aboard specifically for a failure on the airspeed readings because of a failure or the pitot ice froze or something like that...
I just discovered the hidden Austin Meyer in the 747 in X-Plane 10...
This is cool license this a deal with Garmin would be awesome
Hello Austin, Who is Xavion ? Is Xavion the name of one of Gods Angels ? Does The Arc Angel
Michael command Xavion ? FYI earlier today I purchased a one year subscription for Xavion… I am a student pilot, I have completed my first month of training… Thanku 4 Xavion !
no, it need sot be in the foreground to do all its stuff
What’s the app? Def not foreflight
Fantastic app! I wonder if you could also add a ‘preference’ factor to airports, such as, if the home field is within range, prefer that over the military airport, also in range, and exclude the next airport because the runway is closed for maintenance. At least that’s the kind of decision making process that comes to mind. Please don’t make your apps too good or pilot’s won’t be necessary anymore ;) just kidding!
I had a Columbia 400 and used Xavion back in 2014. I sold the airplane and stopped flying but am getting back into another plane soon. I can't believe all of the new additions to the software and only $10 a month. Instrument approaches with the touch of a button... Wake turbulence views in 3d. Give me a break... How are you not a Billionaire! (Maybe you are....) What a fantastic product! Keep up the great work Austin and I look forward to flying again soon and using Xavion again. BTW I am looking at Diamond Twin 42 or 62 or could go the Evolution route. What are your thoughts? I know Lancair had issues with the Evolution but not much info out of them lately. I like the newer engine tech that diamond has and the extra engine on the twins plus seats 7 on the 62. Thanks again!!!
Diamond is about a millions time safer and a million times less fuel and comically slower and more expensive. No comparison at all between the airplanes... totally depends on what you think about the four comparisons mentioned above. This is like Toyota Camry vs 1970 Camaro with a custom supercharger.
@@austinmeyer Yes apples and oranges for sure. There are a few Evolutions for sale my question is are they being supported by the company and are they insurable? I am ok with slower with more capacity and 2 engines. But much faster and an airframe that i am super familiar with is also tempting not to mention the price... Do you find the Evolution fly's like a Columbia 400? I realize the power is over the top but it must be similar to the 400... thx!
@@chasblanchardjr Oh no Evos fly NOTHING like cola-400s... they have 3x the power on the same size airframe, and not nearly as much aero refinement. Evo need way more rudder, have way less precision in handling.. Evos are way less controlled and precise than Colas in their handling, and are within like maybe 1 accident or something of being un-insurable. Lancair seems to sort of be there to give parts support, which is nice.
@@austinmeyer Thx! Looks like the Twin SUV may be in my future......
@@chasblanchardjr maybe wise.. the evo is nothing like any other plane... not super safe, not totally supported... not always insurable... but 300 knots and same approach speed as a cirrus sr-22... so uses the same runways as an sr-22 but goes 300 knots, not much slower than a citation. and does it all for cheap. so the plane is the best in the world... any move out of the airplane would be a downgrade.. nothing else is as good. but all the stuff i mentioned earlier still applies.
Does it compute for increased rate of descent in a turns?
Yes, but the effect is small with just 20 degrees bank or so.
I noticed the stall speed on your chart for your Evolution is 61kts. This is with the big 850shp up front and no slotted flaps, that’s really good. The RDD Lancair IV turboprop with a less powerful 550shp “has the slotted flaps” it still stalls at the same speed as your plane maybe 2kts slower. Something wrong with that RDD airplane.
Wait. I have slotted flaps. The RDD LX-7 has DOUBLE sotted flaps. The RDD might have a slightly smaller wing, enabling good cruise speeds at lower altitudes and with less power, which is a great thing. So the LX-7 cruises with less power (which is good for efficiency) at lower altitude (which improves safety, being at 18,000 instead of 28,000 is way safer after a cabin de-press). So the LX7 just operates at a different part of the envelope... probably safer and more efficient... a very different wing and speed and altitude.
Wow this is super impressive. Thanks
Austin - I am not a pilot so excuse if my questions are obvious. Question 1: Xavion was outlining a restricted area that you avoided. But at some point the proposed emergency path was going through it. Is that actually allowed? Question 2: Working without the need for a Pitot tube is attractive given so many scares/crashes due to them failing. As I understand your system relies on precomputed/pretested atmospheric tables. Pitot tubes can and should be more likely to fail in unexpected weather conditions. Then, would those tables could become irrelevant? How do you address that?
We do NOT go thru restricted airspace for PRACTICE engine failures, but if there is a REAL engine failure, we do not care about stupid things like government rules at that point, and ONLY fly to save the airplane... so the airspace does not matter at all after an actual engine failure.
Pitot tubes fail when bugs get into them, birds knock them off, or water from rain or washing the plane gets in them and freezes, or someone leaves tape over the pitot tube when they washed the plane... none of those things effect air density, which Xavion uses to estimate indicated airspeed.
Colder air does have different density, but Xavion knows that from METARs and winds aloft, which it DOES get from ADSb, so it DOES correct the standard air density fro barometric pressure and temperature and altitude.
@@austinmeyer Thanks.
this is app is amzing. Austin you are amazing i dont understand half the shit you say but i just cannot stop watching these videos over and over. avaition was my dream and i screwed it up as a teen. xplane now is about as good as i can do with kids and family. this app is a cpu hog.
Right.. Xavion is running GPS, gyros, accelerometers, WIFI, graphics, full CPU, plus full CPU AGAIN to build emergency hoops in the background (so they are ready the moment needed)... the App is a SLAYER of CPU and battery, for sure.
My god! Austin you are a very smart man. THat is an amazing APP. Well done! 👍👍
Its a clever idea but it likely wont sell. In engine out situations, the nearest tower always guides the pilot and is far more reassuring than an app.
It's already been selling for about 10 years, so you missed the prediction on that one. Anyway the tower only knows to point you to the NEAREST airport.. Xavion actually gives you hoops to arrive at the BEST airport, which may be a bigger runway farther away, since it know how far you can glide. Xavion also gives you actual path guidance all the way down, at a glide-path your airplane can maintain... something an ATC controller could never do...
Oh and also of course you are not always taking to ATC... almost never required when VFR below 18,000 ft... and the navigation equipment in a modern plane is much much more capable than what ATC has, which is all left over from the 70's... or 80s' at best.
Hi, does the Evolution stressed for mild aerobatics ?
Yes but that's not how I operate it.
thank you
I love Austin lol
Austin, I was an owner of a Lanceair IV N1079 and wished I had this app in back then. I have a request of you to finish, or polish off your Evolution for X-Plane 11. I want to be able to fly it in the your sim and use Xavion along side. There is nothing more exciting than the Evolution. What do you say?
Already on it. It will come out with our next major update, which we are working on now.
@@austinmeyer I am anxious to see it. Loved this Xavion and your incredible Evolution. Best to you!!! Looking forward to it.
@@austinmeyer Wait your kidding your bringing the Lancair Evolution to x-plane? You are the best.
How does Xavion know your nose attitude? Do you calibrate your device's gyro on ground? Does it estimate based on GPS trends?
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That shows how I find roll... cockpit-based longitudinal and vertical acceleration estimate pitch. Gyros give fast-response, and the accelerations listed above give terminal response.
@@austinmeyer Very nice! Thanks Austin!
Hi Austin, this is great for the piston folk like me until very recently. Now that I am lucky enough to have a PT6A in front of me (arguably the most reliably engine in the history of aviation...), I must consider other risks. Undoubtedly, you have heard about N7569A's windshield departure last night. That is now three in the fleet... disconcerting to say the least... New challenge, I'm at FL270, windshield blows out and now I must descend at 7000 to 8000 fpm to 12,000 ft so I can continue breathing. Can Xavion direct me to the closest / best airport under those circumstances?
No I had not heard... what is the newsgroup people use these days? I have not had time to follow this myself...
OK now this did NOT happen last night. You posted this on the Feb 12, the accident happened Feb 7... a WEEK ago. Why did you think it happened last night? And what are the two other tail numbers you are referring to for windshield seps?
hilarious dude!!!!
How do you clip your iPad onto the dash panel?
I think the mount i have now is called a RAM mount. Yah i had its base-plate screwed right into the aluminum panel... in fact i personally designed the entire instrument panel myself, leaving the perfect amount of space for that exact thing. One of countless reasons I'll never buy a certified plane again in my life.
@@austinmeyer I downloaded your software and will try it out. I fly a Cirrus but will upgrade to a turboprop in the next 365.
I hope he understands this is in no way approved for navigation. He still has to use GPS/ Nav equipment approved for IFR. Wouldn’t it be more work to enter everything in your FMS, look at an approach plate, and use Xavion? I don’t see how this would be useful in any situation other than a complete electrical and instrument failure in IMC.
For general navigation, I agree. For an emegency situation, navigational legalities go out of the window if your life depends on it. If the app can get you to an approach and get you to decision height, all is good.