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Advertisers Index
Aero Standard .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 62
Aircraft Electronics Association .  .  .  .  . IBC, 19
Aircraft Lighting International  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 63
Aircraft Spruce  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 5
Aspen Avionics  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 7
AVweb .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 44
Banyan Air Service  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 62
C&L Aviation Group  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 29
Cal Labs  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 62
Castleberry Instruments & Avionics  .  .  . 57
CiES  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 63
Cobham  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 60
Corporate Angel Network  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 14
DAC International  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 61
Dallas Avionics  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . IFC
EDMO  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . BC
Elliott Aviation  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 49
FLYING Magazine .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 64
Garmin  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 3
Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics  .  .  . 1

CRASH AVOIDANCE

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Synthetic vision:
a double-threat safety system
Here's another option available at relatively low cost and
on a variety of devices and systems: the synthetic vision
system, or SVS.
Safety experts credit the availability and use of SVS for
improving flight safety on two levels: terrain awareness and
avoidance; and loss of control in-flight.
These authorities credit the improvement in situational
awareness that stems from a pilot's view of the world
outside in an accurate depiction of attitude and altitude.
Viewed on a PFD or portable display, SVS correctly depicts
the aircraft's attitude, whether turning, banking, stalling,
climbing.
In all weather and visibility conditions, SVS shows the
way. Today's SVS systems vary in how far ahead they
show the outside world, but the view correctly reflects the
altitude and ground speed of the aircraft.
With the color-coding capabilities of most SVS systems,
the pilot should always know when terrain begins to near
the altitude of the aircraft. While increasingly common on
PFDs and as part of integrated avionics packages, SVS can
also be found as a function of EFBs and some portable GPS
navigators.
EVS - enhanced vision systems - offer some of the same
help as SVS, but with limitations due to smoke, fog or
other hindrances for the infrared camera sensor delivering
the image.

Pacific Southwest Instruments  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 15
QF Avionics .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 62
Sandia Aerospace .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 45
Schweiss Doors  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 62
Southeast Aerospace  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 28
Tech-Aid Products .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 62
TGH Aviation .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 52
TQ Aircraft Electronics  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 11
Tri-Star Technologies  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 41
uAvionix  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 40
VIAVI Solutions  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 25

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APRIL

2020

The best tool: a well-trained, savvy pilot
As one flight-training company used to note in its
advertisements, the best safety system in any aircraft is a
well-trained, current pilot.
With so many sources of risk and so many tools created
to help pilots avoid those risks, it's up to the operator to
recognize and act on any warnings or alerts sounded by
those systems.
Beyond that elementary need is another big one: the
necessity of responding correctly to such warnings. And
the best hedge against making the wrong decision or wrong
maneuver is as simple as a trip to the airport to practice
using and responding to the systems' warnings.
The avionics community continues to provide useful,
affordable tools for accident avoidance. It takes only a welltrained, well-schooled pilot to make up the difference. q
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