Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"You know, Archie Trammell was the guy who for many, many years taught people the nuances of using an onboard radar. And we had him come here and do a class at Avidyne. We rented him for the day and he came in and he did his whole class. And this was when we were first starting to do radars.
We don't actually make the radar, we make the display. So we had all these people making radar displays, and we had all these brilliant ideas for how we could take the data coming out of the sensors and show it, and it's like, 'Is this a good idea or is it not a good idea? We need somebody who KNOWS something about this stuff.'
So we had him come in and train all of our engineering and marketing people on what radar can, and can't, do for you.
And that influenced our future product design. On how we display -- we take an old radar and we can colorize it, we can do range eliminating, we can figure out how we can do all this great stuff with it."

Source: Avidyne's Dan Schwiin, talking about using acknowledged experts to help develop new techologies for Avidyne's rapidly growing product line. 

FMI: www.avidyne.com