Glass Cockpit Suite May Include Two, Three Or Four Displays

Sagem Avionics announced this week at NBAA 2008 it has earned a Supplemental Type Certificate from the FAA for installation of the company's ICDS glass cockpit avionics suite in the Commander 690 series of turboprop aircraft.

The company's Integrated Cockpit Display System for the Commander 690 is designed to be an intuitive and user-friendly system, aimed at drastically reducing the pilot's workload and to increase situation awareness and safety.

Configurable in two, three, or four 10-inch color Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Displays (AMLCD) the system provides Primary Flight Instruments, engine instruments, moving maps, CAS advisories, a terrain warning system, and integrated radar and Traffic Advisory System (TAS) data.

Users may also add more features, such as enhanced vision and lightning protection (both provided by L-3), and weather radars. Radios are another optional upgrade.

Initial installation of the first Sagem Avionics ICDS was performed recently by Alternative Aviation in Waterford, MI. The aircraft was on display throughout the week at NBAA. 

Though the last new Twin Commander 690 was built in the 1980s, Sagem notes there remains a healthy potential market for its upgrade package... pointing out there are over 600 690-type planes still in operation.

FMI: www.sagemavionics.com, www.twincommander.com