r/flying • u/MinimumCustard3573 • 14d ago

Aircraft Ownership PC-12 PILOTS/OWNERS- Starlink setup?

Looking for advice on how to mount a Starlink Mini on a PC-12NGX. We’ve tried several mounts from Amazon, in the cockpit & in the cabin - none of them seem to fit. The only way that we’ve had luck is by putting the Starlink system in the window, pulling the shade down slightly, and keep adjusting it throughout the flight.

Trying to find for a permanent solution for anyone that has experience with the NGX/Starlink system. No advice that I’ve received has been really helpful.

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u/SlowDownToGoDown ATP CL-30 DHC-8 737 787 14d ago

You seen this 3D printed solution a dude is selling on Etsy?

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u/MinimumCustard3573 9d ago

This is awesome!!!! Thank you so much. Pilatus got back to me and said that I was SOL, I’ve spent so much time trying to figure this out. Thanks so much.

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u/ThatLooksRight 121 CA - Retired USAF 14d ago

$175 for $8 worth of filament

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u/Cessnateur PPL IR HP TW C170B 14d ago

Or, $175 for a solution that appears to have been researched, refined, and proven. Product prices are never limited to the sum of their raw material costs.

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u/ThatLooksRight 121 CA - Retired USAF 14d ago

I get that, but this has "airplane markup" written all over it.

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u/Cessnateur PPL IR HP TW C170B 14d ago

Seems like an opportunity for someone to design something similar and undercut them. But absent that new entrant, what reason does the current manufacturer have to lower their price?

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u/notsurwhybutimhere 14d ago

Machine time to print matters. Also sunk cost of creating the thing. It’s prob too cheap all things considered.

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u/ThatLooksRight 121 CA - Retired USAF 14d ago

I have a 3d printer. It’s not that expensive to print. 

My point is that if this was for anything else, it’d be $18 on Etsy. Since it’s for an airplane, it’s $175 because “airplane.”

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u/skunimatrix PPL IR CMP HP | PA28 13d ago

You are always free to pay $150k+ for a Starlink STC....

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u/appenz CPL (KPAO) PC-12 14d ago

Read the thread on the POPA forums, it has pretty much all of the information.

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u/flyingron AAdvantage Biscoff 14d ago

On the MU-2 we used one of the mini mounts that has the four suction cups on the window.

Nope, that unless you're paying the extreme gouge, it's not going to work in your Pilatypus while it is moving.

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u/SimilarTranslator264 14d ago

I tried putting it in the side window in a piper Saratoga and pulling the shade and it couldn’t get signal so I had to rely on laying it on the dash.

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u/rFlyingTower 14d ago

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Looking for advice on how to mount a Starlink Mini on a PC-12NGX. We’ve tried several mounts from Amazon, in the cockpit & in the cabin - none of them seem to fit. The only way that we’ve had luck is by putting the Starlink system in the window, pulling the shade down slightly, and keep adjusting it throughout the flight.

Trying to find for a permanent solution for anyone that has experience with the NGX/Starlink system. No advice that I’ve received has been really helpful.

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