Bill Patterson Might Trade Up To 55X

S-Tec announced recently that Bill Patterson of Montrose County, CO was the lucky winner of the company's System Thirty autopilot giveaway. Patterson’s name was drawn from the hundreds of entries the company received during last month's Lakeland air show.

"I’m extremely excited about it all," Patterson said. "I’ve had an S-Tec System 30 in my T210 for three years and it’s been great. I really like it a lot."

A 4,000 hour Instrument rated pilot, Patterson said that he recently purchased a 1973 Cessna T337G pressurized Skymaster and was already planning to upgrade the current Cessna autopilot to a new S-Tec System 55X when he got the news that he had won.

"I’ve already talked to the folks at my local S-Tec dealer, Depot Avionics about trading up from the System 30 to a 55X," he said. "As much as I like the '30' I think the 55X is better suited for my Skymaster. The System 55X offers two features that I really want: Course and Glide Slope capture capabilities."

Patterson is Chief Engineer for TEI Rockdrills, a company his family started in 1980, the same year he got his pilot’s license. "We’re the only company in America still making impact-type rock drills and I use the airplanes to fly all over the country and even into Canada and Mexico visiting our customers," he explained.

"We couldn’t be happier that a current S-Tec customer won our 30th Anniversary System 30 giveaway," said Greg Plantz, VP of Sales and Marketing. "Mr. Patterson is just the type of pilot who will benefit from having a new, more reliable autopilot in his aircraft. He flies a lot of long trips into rural airports. A reliable autopilot will really reduce his workload."

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