Avionics News June 2019 - 61

The AEA Exhbit
Hall was
filled with the
latest avionics
technologies, and
it also provided
a perfect venue
for networking
with peers in the
avionics industry.

the avionics industry. As mentioned, 140 companies large
whom to seek a solution. Many high-end booths offered
and small filled the sold-out exhibit hall. The companies
attendees something to drink or snack on while obtaining a
present read like a Who's Who of the avionics industry,
demonstration, and you had your pick of aviation-themed
with major participation ranging from AeroLEDs to Whelen
trade-show swag, if that's your thing.
Engineering, Avidyne to Universal, and Aspen Avionics to
TruTrak Flight Systems.
Next Year: Nashville
Ten main hallways were needed to help
If you missed this year's AEA International
organize the exhibits and allow room
Convention & Trade Show, you might be
See
more
for attendees. Even then, there were
thinking about attending the next one.
convention
frequent pedestrian traffic jams
If so, mark your calendar for March
photos online at:
at popular booths. At the
24-27, 2020, in Nashville, Tennessee.
back of the exhibit hall, the
If you can't wait until then, the
AEA Educational Foundation
association also holds a series of
aea.net/2019photos
set up its annual silent auction,
smaller, regional events known as
featuring products and services
AEA Connect Conferences. Like the
contributed by AEA member
annual convention, they are designed
companies. The silent auction raised
to offer a forum for attendees to see,
$38,500, and all proceeds benefit the
hear and learn about all the new technologies
AEA Educational Foundation. Meanwhile,
on the market, network with industry peers and
a portion of the hall was set aside each day for
discover best practices for avionics shops and the aviation
a limited lunch buffet - yes, there is a free lunch - with
repair station industry.
plenty of room to sit and chat with fellow attendees.
The AEA Connect Conferences for the remainder of
As with any major trade show, each booth in the exhibit
2019 will take place in Toronto, Ontario (Sept. 9-10); Reno,
hall, large and small, had its own style and displays, from
Nevada (Sept. 23-24); Kansas City, Missouri (Oct. 2-3);
the latest flight management systems and displays to wire
Daytona Beach, Florida (Nov. 4-5); and Adelaide, Australia
strippers. You could compare autopilot features from among
(Nov. 18-19). To learn more, visit aea.net/connect.
at least four major manufacturers or rate the resolution of
Whether you make it to an AEA Connect Conference or
popular primary flight displays simply by walking through
wait for the next convention in Nashville, we hope to see
the hall. If you had questions about an oddball ADS-B
you there learning and networking with hundreds of aviation
installation, you had your pick of manufacturers from
technology experts. q
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