Heli-Expo 2008, Houston, TX – February 24, 2008 – Avidyne Corporation announced today that its TWX670 Tactical Weather Detection system – the first color, real-time, lightning-based tactical weather avoidance system for general aviation aircraft – has received European Technical Standards Order (ETSO) authorization from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Avidyne received Technical Standard Order acceptance from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) last year.
“This authorization streamlines the delivery process for OEMs whose European customers have ordered aircraft equipped with Avidyne’s TWX670,” explained Tom Harper, Avidyne’s Director of Marketing.
The TWX670 provides real-time weather avoidance capability out to 200 nautical miles (nm), which is especially valuable for customers operating aircraft outside the United States where datalink graphical weather is unavailable. Its advanced, high-speed digital signal processing provides a significant advantage over previous-generation systems by allowing the TWX670 to display lightning in the 0-25 nm range, providing truly tactical weather detection and avoidance capability.
The TWX670 is a standard option on the Piper PA-46 Matrix and is now available for retrofit in existing fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. It’s currently available at a suggested list price of $7,995.
About Avidyne Corporation (www.avidyne.com)Avidyne’s continuing leadership in innovation and its Flying Made Simple™ system design make flying safer, more accessible and more enjoyable for pilots and their passengers. The company’s expanding line of products include Entegra integrated flight decks for new aircraft, Envision integrated flight decks for existing aircraft, datalink-capable EX5000 and EX500 multi-function displays and the dual-antenna TAS600 series of active traffic advisory systems, the MLB700 broadcast datalink receiver and the TWX670 Tactical Weather Detection system. Headquartered in Lincoln, MA, the company has facilities in Columbus, OH, Melbourne, FL, and Boulder, CO.
