ANN was the first to tip you off to the selection of the Avidyne Entegra for Piper's piston 6 seat heavy-haulers -- the Saratoga II HP, the Saratoga II TC, the Piper 6X and the Piper 6XT - making them the only six-place aircraft on the market with this state-of-the-art avionics system. Now, we're pleased to share the latest pix of the new Piper piston panels, featuring the Avidyne Entegra. 

The FlightMax Entegra system, designed and manufactured by the Avidyne Corporation of Lincoln, MA, consists of two large, high-resolution sunlight readable displays; an EXP5000 Primary Flight Display (PFD) with an integrated solid-state air data and attitude/heading reference system and EX5000 multi-function display (MFD), more commonly found on corporate jet aircraft.

Entegra's EXP5000 PFD presents standard flight instrumentation including attitude direction indicator (EADI), horizontal situation indicator (EHSI), altitude, primary engine instruments, airspeed, and vertical speed. Entegra's EX5000 MFD delivers unique situational awareness on an integrated display including moving map, lightning, terrain, traffic, complete engine information and optional datalink weather.

Entegra's innovative EMax provides primary engine instrument capability including the display of manifold pressure, RPM, fuel flow, and oil pressure on the PFD. In addition, EMax provides fuel totalizer capability, an automatic leaning function, and a "percent horsepower" display, which takes the guesswork out of fuel and power management. EMax also shows fuel remaining, and computes nautical miles per gallon, fuel-to-waypoint, and fuel-to-destination on the MFD. In addition, all six cylinder head (CHT) and exhaust gas temperatures (EGT), oil temperature, outside air temperature (OAT), and electrical bus voltages are also monitored and displayed. EMax also provides data logging capability of critical engine performance parameters, which are downloadable via the MFD data port in a standard spreadsheet format for easy analysis.

FMI: www.avidyne.com, www.newpiper.com