Avionics News August 2023 - 37

Harness Planner
Flex digital standby package
All three instruments are supported by an AML STC
covering more than 180 aircraft models.
Of the three instruments in the new standby package,
the Flex digital attitude indicator includes a solid-state
display and presents attitude information without the
need for GPS, magnetometer or airspeed. It displays
attitude, slip, turn rate and heading - from primary
instruments via ARINC input - during normal or
standby operation.
The Flex digital counter drum encoding altimeter,
meanwhile, offers approach minimums alerting, vertical
speed indication, a six-second vertical trend and
barometric settings in millibars, hectopascals or inches
of mercury. It's certified to 55,000 feet. The Flex
digital airspeed indicator brings configurable range
markings instead of mechanical ones, and groundspeed
and true airspeed can be displayed with external
ARINC input. It also offers a user-selectable Mach
number display along with a configurable dynamic
VMO/MMO barber pole indicator.
Night-vision versions of all three instruments are
also available as part of the new 3-pack.
Also, Mid-Continent's True Blue Power division
introduced two new aircraft batteries. The TB14 (28
volts and 13 amp-hour) and TB28-12V (12 volts and
26 amp-hour) lithium-ion batteries are specifically
designed for smaller, fixed-wing, Part 23 aircraft.
Weighing just 10 pounds, they are the company's
smallest and lightest aircraft batteries. With their
introduction, True Blue Power now has lithium-ion
batteries ranging from 13 amp-hours to 60 amp-hours.
The company plans for STC approval of the batteries
on an extensive list of aircraft models.
For more information, visit mcico.com.
One Mile Up
Northern Virginia-based One Mile Up offers a
software program called Panel Planner for - as its name
implies - designing aircraft instrument panels. " We've
been doing this for about 25 years, " Gene Velasquez,
president and founder, told AEA Convention attendees,
" and our software is really meant for those people who
want to show their customer what the panel's going to
look like. "
" Every panel that we
want to start, everything
we want to work with can
be very easy, can work
so well ... sometimes, "
he continued. " But
when it goes bad, the
things that can go bad
are almost endless. The
kind of problems that
you can run into with
the technology is pretty
amazing. What I'm
hearing today is such
great new technologies are coming to the industry, it's
actually mind-boggling just sitting here and listening to
all the things that are coming through.
" With this new technology, how do you make it
happen? " he asked. " Part of the problem is paperwork:
getting approvals, getting the technology to be
accepted. These kinds of things can take years. As
you probably all know with the technology that
you've seen, it's probably taken every one of those
manufacturers years to be able to get through that
process.
" Imagine trying to take 2023 technology and put it
together with 1970 wiring. One of the new products
we'll be showing today is Harness Planner: how you
can take that whole wiring problem and harness it.
Another thing we'll be showing is ... carbon fiber
design: doing text, being able to silkscreen. "
For more information, visit 1mileup.com.
PS Engineering
" This is not a new product introduction ... this
is a revolution, " Gary Picou, PS Engineering vice
president, said as he opened his presentation. " Today, I
introduce you to a new generation of control: on-wing
configurability. Today, we present the HUB50. "
The fully digital HUB50 is integrated into an existing
PS Engineering PAC45A system, using the current
versions of the CTL45/A control heads. It is backward
compatible with its predecessor, the HUB45AR. The
HUB50 moves audio system configuration away from
the multiple switches and potentiometers and places
them into an easy-to-use iPhone application. With the
application, more than 250 different parameters can be
configured, including which stations hear which audio
sources, switched and unswitched, input and output
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