Amazing day! Had a great flight in Luis's beautiful RV-7A to experience flight with a Catto propeller. Also got a chance to ask a lot of other questions and look at how he did things. It has has been too long since I've been flying. And then I went across the runway and talked to John about failure modes and how his Bonanza works with the new Garmin avionics upgrades. Some of the topics I covered this morning were trim control and failures, flap control and failures, Foreflight/Garmin interaction, single vs dual COM and CAN bus failures and antenna locations and installation. I spent 4 hours at Breakaway Park and am counting 1 hour of actual research.
Continued research at home and started email with questions for Garmin support. Read and searched through VAF forums and Garmin documentation as I created my questions and tried to answer as many as I could (or at least ask better questions). Spent time reviewing the details of post installation configuration for the Garmin LRUs to learn more about the settings and options available.
Also searched for information on PermaGrit files, Otto Switches (used in Luis's RV), antenna mounts and more.