Announced Only A Month Ago... And Already In The Field

Ya gotta give them credit, when they get a burr under their saddle, there's just no stopping them. Avidyne, over the course of less than a month has gone from announcement to delivery of their next-generation integrated flight deck -- in a Cirrus SR22.

"This Entegra Release 9 installation was started just days after we received our Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) approval and the time from aircraft arrival to customer delivery was under two weeks," said Patrick Herguth, Avidyne's Chief Operating Officer. "This installation validates the well thought out and time-saving benefits of our pre-fabricated retrofit wiring harness and our highly-detailed retrofit instructions, which were designed to reduce aircraft down time and overall installation costs. For a first-customer installation, it really could not have gone much smoother."

"Entegra Release 9 is the culmination of years of research and development and we are delighted with the results, having created the easiest-to-use flight deck in all of aviation," said Dan Schwinn, Avidyne's President and CEO. "Entegra owners now have access to all the benefits of the Release 9 upgrade and they only have to be without their aircraft for a short amount of time in order to get it."

"This program is a real credit to the efforts of our entire development team. Aircraft arrival to first flight was accomplished in one week, and we had customer delivery within two weeks," said Rob Higby, Avidyne's Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Customer Service. "With Entegra Release 9, we have an 'Installation Made Simple' solution to ensure an easy upgrade with predictable down time."

A network of Avidyne-approved installation centers are starting to work on multiple Entegra Release 9 installations, and Avidyne has developed a full schedule of "Entegra Release 9 Across America" Fly-Ins and Demonstration Seminars. In addition to this schedule, Avidyne will be exhibiting and hosting Entegra Release 9 flight demos at the upcoming Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association Annual Migration (M7) in Duluth, MN on June 25-28, 2009.

The retail price of the Entegra Release 9 retrofit for Cirrus SR20 & SR22 is $72,800 which includes dual XGA displays, FMS keyboard, dual GPS/FMS receivers, dual 16-watt VHF COMM radios, and MLB700 XM/SIRIUS Broadcast datalink receiver.

FMI: www.avidyne.com/products/release-9/demo-schedule.asp, www.avidynelive.com, www.avidyne.com