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QUICK PROGRESS
Many new non-TSO products have been certified in recent months
April 2016 - Dynon's EFIS-D10A is approved in five aircraft models.
July 2016 - The Garmin G5 is approved in more than 500 aircraft.
July 2016 - Dynon announces the expansion of its supplemental type certificate for the EFIS D100
and additional aircraft models.
July 2017 - TruTrak says its Vizion autopilot received an STC for Cessna 172s and 177s.
July 2017 - The Trio Avionics Pro Pilot autopilot is STC-approved for Cessna 172s and 182s.
July 2017 - CubCrafters is granted approval to install the non-TSO Garmin G3X in factory-new XCubs.
THE TRUTRAK VIZION (below) and the Trio

July 2017 - Dynon says it is certifying its non-TSO Skyview HDX integrated avionics suite.

-IJT

Pro Pilot autopilots represent a significant
savings over traditional certified boxes.
Coming from the Experimental aircraft
market, a risk-based PMA approval
allowed each company to save big
on FAA authorization.

lower-valued aircraft without a practical
path to replace their aging technology.
Now, AOPA and other industry associations are working with the FAA and
manufacturers on a range of instrument
certification changes bringing a new tier
of incredibly capable, relatively low-cost
options that increase safety and make
financial sense to owners, no matter the
airplane's hull value.
Although manufacturers generally
don't release sales numbers, it's likely
that Garmin's G5 is one of the top beneficiaries in this new suite of avionics
choices. It's also one of the best examples
of what's possible with the new efforts.
The G5 was originally launched as a small
primary or backup attitude indicator for
the Experimental market. It shows attitude, speed, altitude, and turn coordinator
information. There's also a four-hour
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battery backup. What would have been
tens of thousands of dollars for a certificated aircraft cost less than $2,000 for an
Experimental aircraft. Now, a new certified version is a little more than $2,000.
Experimental aircraft can equip
with these reliable, safer alternatives for
lest cost because the equipment doesn't
go through the same certification processes as for certificated aircraft. Yet for
decades the fact that amateur-built aircraft were flying in the same airspace as
certificated aircraft didn't seem to matter to the FAA. Then, a few years ago,
attitudes started to change. Leadership
at the FAA realized that if safety was the
agency's primary goal, which it obviously
is, then there was no logical reason lessexpensive safety-enhancing equipment
couldn't also be made available for certificated aircraft. The question was how

to make that happen without significant
regulatory changes.
WHAT'S CHANGED

Perhaps the easiest way to explain the shift
that has allowed less expensive and safer
alternatives to migrate into cockpits is to
explain what hasn't happened. No laws
were written, and no regulations have
changed. The major movement to reform
small-aircraft certification under FAR Part
23-although an encouraging shift that may
enable less expensive and more capable aircraft-has virtually nothing to do with the
G5, Dynon EFIS-D10A, and new less costly
autopilots. Instead, the combination of a
new engineering validation standard and
an attitude change from FAA leadership
has created a set of internal regulatory and
order interpretations that AOPA and other
associations have seized upon.



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