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Staco Systems
Bruce Gray, president of Staco Systems, highlighted his company’s latest innovative products and competencies during the
AEA Convention. Gray briefed attendees on his company’s new
solutions for rugged, custom-designed cockpit components, including its new wear-resistant illuminated cockpit display panel.
Noting that the underlying technology of backlit display
panels hasn’t changed much in recent decades, Gray’s presentation focused on
worn, illegible panel
labeling as well as
the challenges
of incorporating color and
sunlight-readable displays in
such products. The
Staco Systems’ wear-resistant
solution, according
illuminated cockpit display panel
to the company,
is Staco Systems’
new, patented polymer called infused cell cast acrylic, which
eliminates exterior paint and associated abrasion/wear problems.
As Gray related, the resulting product can withstand some
100 pounds of pressure, bending but not breaking. The technology also allows the use of color for panel labeling and includes
a full, lifetime warranty against any surface wear or damage.
The new material has been incorporated into all of the company’s switches and keyboards, and it is now available for lightplate and cockpit-display panels.
Staco Systems, originally known as Staco Switch, began
operations in 1958, with an initial focus on lighted push-button
display switches. Today, the company’s product line also
includes rugged keyboards and keypads, and electronic controllers, as well as its new, high-tech panel assemblies. Its certifications and standards include ISO 9001, FAA parts manufacturing
approval, RTCA DO-160 and numerous military specifications.
The company is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and maintains
an international sales office in Australia.
To learn more, visit www.stacosystems.com.

tools, during the AEA Convention. The new products include
Flight Review, a software-based analysis tool providing
easy access and review of past flights and approaches using
Universal’s FMS equipment; Firefly 3.0, a cockpit voice and
flight data recorder support application and the FlightAssure
Extended Warranty Program.
Universal called its Flight Review software “a valuable
analysis tool providing easy access and review of past flights
and approaches.” The product blends FMS action sequences
with 3-D rendering of the flight plan over Google Earth for a
virtual view from the pilot’s seat of any previously recorded
flight. Event markers, recorded by the FMS during flight,
and bookmarks, created in FlightReview, allow search and
playback of specific events during a flight. The software can
be used for demonstrations, training and/or FOQA analysis.
The Firefly 3.0 software provides ground support for
the CVR-120A, FDR-25 and CVFDR-145 recorder series.
Available functions include installation checkout, maintenance and system troubleshooting, plus periodic data and
voice downloads. The application provides extended system
diagnostics and full or partial data retrieval from a flight
data or cockpit voice recorder, plus CVR audio retrieval and
playback using a Windows-based laptop computer and an
Ethernet cable.
Universal said its FlightAssure program works to remove
uncertainty and guesswork from a customer’s avionics installation, minimizing maintenance, downtime and overall cost.
The program extends the avionics’ existing protection plan
and includes key benefits like a fixed price with an annual,
fully transferable contract, available loaner units, component
repairs including no-fault-found removals and 24/7 AOG
emergency service.
To learn more, visit www.uasc.com. q

Universal Avionics Systems Corp.
Andy Seaton, director of product support for Universal
Avionics Systems Corp., introduced the company’s Universal
Tool Kit, a set of three software and warranty-enhancement
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Universal’s Flight Review is a software-based analysis tool that
provides easy access and review of past flights and approaches.

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