{"id":973,"date":"2018-10-22T06:03:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T06:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/?p=973"},"modified":"2018-10-22T06:03:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T06:03:57","slug":"certification-of-sandels-avilon-flight-deck-expected-early-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/22\/certification-of-sandels-avilon-flight-deck-expected-early-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Certification of Sandel&#8217;s Avilon Flight Deck Expected Early Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-subtitle\">\n<p>Priced at $175,000 installed, the King Air retrofit cockpit is less than half the cost of competing retrofits.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-974\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sandel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"821\" height=\"581\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sandel Avionics is continuing testing of its Avilon integrated flight deck, created as a lower-priced alternative for the King Air retrofit market, as the company reports certification and initially deliveries are on pace for early next year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Flying<\/em>\u00a0had the chance to see the latest version of Avilon at the NBAA Convention in Orlando, Florida, and it&#8217;s clear that the avionics system has evolved greatly since it was first announced three years ago. Then, the element of Avilon that turned heads was its &#8220;guaranteed flyaway&#8221; price of $175,000, which is less than half the installed price of competing King Air retrofit choices.<\/p>\n<p>Sandel was able to keep the total price low by designing the modular avionics with fast installation time in mind. The avionics system includes four large 12.4-inch touch screen LCD flight displays, two smaller data entry touch screens, radios, flight management computers, dual AHRS, audio panel, ADS-B-compliant Mode S transponder, RNP approach capabilities, and flight director\/autopilot (minus the autopilot servos, which are retained).<\/p>\n<p>Certification for the entire King Air family is expected in January, said Larry Riddle, vice president of sales and marketing for Sandel. Look for a full flight report in an upcoming issue of\u00a0<em>Flying<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingmag.com\/\">Flying<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priced at $175,000 installed, the King Air retrofit cockpit is less than half the cost of competing retrofits. Sandel Avionics is continuing testing of its Avilon integrated flight deck, created as a lower-priced alternative for the King Air retrofit market, as the company reports certification and initially deliveries are on pace for early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}