At the Aircraft Electronics Association’s International Convention and Trade Show in Florida, Avidyne was showing its dealer network several replacement options for aging avionics. This includes the IFD series slide-in navigators for existing Garmin GNS 430 and 530 systems, plus the Vantage flight displays, which replace vintage Entegra PFD and MFD systems. Aviation Consumer Editor-in-Chief Larry Anglisano caught up with Avidyne’s Tom Harper for an update on the product lines.
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They have been talking about these products for 2-3 years now…
It is painful they target Cirrus first in circumstances that it is plenty of Cessnas and Columbias out there spring loaded for them, let alone the negative interest of this company in getting the digital autopilots certified for Cessnas and Columbias.
Get real guys and take better care of your old clients outside of the Cirrus cloud.
Totally agree.
Not to get off topic, but I had a similar experience with the staff at Fore Flight. Their platform is Apple IPhone based. Not Android. Many of us do not and will not use Apple. What about us????
There are other EFBs besides FF. I like iFly EFB (iflyefb.com), which supports Android, iOS, and Windows with the same features and look-and-feel across all platforms. I’ve been using it since ~2011 or so and have been very happy.
“Many of us do not and will not use Apple.” Your strident position, your consequences.
For some reason Garmin runs circles around the other Avionics players delivering new products and new capability across large AML lists for their STC’s.