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This post can also be found on our Avidyne Live site. Langewiesche’s “Silver Chain” I have been working my way through Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying by Wolfgang Langewiesche and it has been a very interesting read. There are multiple places where Langewiesche...
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This post was written by Mark Krebs , our Vice President of Engineering for Guidance and Controls and can be found on our Avidyne Live site Envelope Protection "Envelope Protection" is the name we give to two autopilot features that work to prevent stall and overspeed. In this post I'll...
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This post was written by Mark Krebs , our Vice President of Engineering for Guidance and Controls and can also be found on our Avidyne Live site. How do the servos work? One of the first questions many people have asked was how well the autopilot performs without digital smart servos. Plenty of smart...
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This post was written by Mark Krebs , our Vice President of Engineering for Guidance and Controls, and can also be found on our Avidyne Live site. Here at Avidyne, we have three aircraft in continuous flight test of our new DFC90/100 Autopilot and are proceeding towards certification at this time. Since...
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This can also be found here on our Avidyne Live site. So far my posts have been very high level, so I want to dive in a bit deeper on a topic that highlights the advantage of the R9 architecture. First, let me provide some definitions that will make it easier to talk through the example. Admittedly,...
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This post is written by Matt Nuffort , Senior Product Manager, and can also be found here on our Avidyne Live site. At Avidyne we pride ourselves on intuitive design, which translates into ease of use. We spend countless hours reviewing and modifying the user interface of our systems to ensure they are...
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You can also see this blog on our Avidyne Live site. Improving the overall satisfaction of our customer experience has been a high priority for Avidyne over the last eighteen months. We started the process by looking at the data around our failure rates and repair turn times. The failure rate of the...
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This is a post from Matt Nuffort, Senior Product Manager, that can also be found at http://avidynelive.com/forum_topics.asp?FID=15&title=avidyne-product-development . Matt will be hosting his own blog on our AvidyneLive site but I will post here as well for the COPA community. Patrick Like many of...
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this post can also be found at http://avidynelive.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=55&title=simplicity-safety-and-utility-intro The recent certification of the Entegra Release 9 system was the result of five years’ development and over $100 million invested. This platform will allow us to continue to...
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What is the process to take out perfectly good Garmin radio stuff and Avidyne flight instrumentation which includes charts and engine data? Why would I even go through it? I have always been the guy that had to have the newest stuff. I replaced cars at least annually, sometime more often. Computers and...