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MICRO VORTEX GENERATORS
* Cessna

* Beech

* Piper

....just to name a few

Over 500 Models
FAA-STC Approved

explained. "And we want to get information
as much as possible on the G1000 displays."
A DIFFERENT APPROACH

The situation is a little different for owners
of aircraft that left the factory with Avidyne
glass cockpits. "All of our integrated flight
decks were installed at OEMs," said Tom
Harper, Avidyne's marketing director. "We
have a huge installed base of 4,000-plus
Cirruses," plus a bunch of Pipers and some
Columbia aircraft, for which Avidyne fulfills
aftermarket demand.
Avidyne did the engineering for the avionics STCs, which Cirrus and Piper then
added to the type certificates for aircraft with
Avidyne integrated flight decks. "On Release
7 we code-merged all of our OEM differences,
so going forward, we could update everyone
at once," Harper said. "We'll go do STCs for
each of these OEMs so they can upgrade and
get ADS-B into their Entegra suites."
For Entegra installations, ADS-B Out is
independent of the rest of the system. For the
required position source, the dual Garmin
GNS 430s can be upgraded to WAAS if they
haven't already-or replaced with Avidyne's
IFD440. Upgrading the Mode S transponder
to extended squitter provides for ADS-B Out.
Some owners are replacing the panel-mount
transponder with a remote-mount unit, freeing up enough panel space to replace the two
GNS 430s with an IFD440 and an IFD540,
which features a larger screen, Harper said.
Integrated ADS-B In should be available
later this year for Entegra 8, Harper added.
"That will add the ability to display ADS-B
traffic and weather on the big glass." Owners
will have to install a 978 UAT receiver to get
the data; those with satellite weather capability or active traffic systems like Skywatch
will have to decide which data to display on
the MFD and on the navigator displays.
Owners who have upgraded to Entegra
Release 9-which entailed new hardware
and software-can expect a software upgrade
allowing display of ADS-B In data at the end
of this year or in early 2016, Harper said.
CIRRUS

At EAA AirVenture, Cirrus Aircraft distributed an information sheet outlining the
ADS-B status of all of its G1000-equipped
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