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Anyone have first-hand experience with the MGL Avionics VHF-10?

http://www.mglavionics.co.za/VHF10.htm

Just from playing with one at the MGL booth, never in flight. The first thing that a lot of people must think when they first see that radio is why the heck would anyone want to tune a frequency by pushing those little buttons in flight.. I could be wrong but it strikes me as a lousy user interface. I know you can link it to the MGL EFIS in which case it might not be as bad, but stand alone i think it would it would be very annoying.

142YX wrote:Just from playing with one at the MGL booth, never in flight. The first thing that a lot of people must think when they first see that radio is why the heck would anyone want to tune a frequency by pushing those little buttons in flight.. I could be wrong but it strikes me as a lousy user interface. I know you can link it to the MGL EFIS in which case it might not be as bad, but stand alone i think it would it would be very annoying.

In fairness it should be noted that you can upload a frequency list directly into the v10 using your computer,so instead of tuning a freq. you choose a frequency. http://youtu.be/bhsIBV6AxqM explained around 2min.15 sec.into video.This makes it fairly easy to use I would hope.My only problem is I will have to purchase windows for my mac :cry:

That still doesn't sound very user friendly to me.. unless you never leave your own neighborhood. On flight following in the LA area i have to change frequency every 5 seconds (a bit of an exaggeration). There is no way i could program in everything that i would need.