While we've been enjoying the fruits of the certified EFIS
developments that have popped up over the last few years, we are
duty-bound to mention that the experimental aircraft industry has
been developing these technologies for many years... and flying
them for nearly as long. As a matter of fact, a number of certified
products started with the experimental industry.
Aero-TV spent some amusing moments with Blue Mountain Avionics'
boss, Greg Richter, an irrepressible sort of fellow who has
spearheaded a phenomenal amount of glass panel development programs
for sport aircraft. In addition to being quite an innovator, we
must note that its hard to come away from this feature without also
noting that he's a bit of a character... this was a wild (and fun)
interview -- despite the fact that we had to brave some
uncharacteristically cool temps in central Florida on the closing
day of the 2008 US Sport Aviation Expo.
Greg's first EFIS flew in 1997, and since then, he has driven
Blue Mountain to become one of the preeminent suppliers of EFIS,
FMCS and Autopilots for homebuilts and light-sport aircraft.
Richter tells ANN that his product line boasts, "the fastest
AHRS available (at 420 deg/sec, 4x the nearest competitor), the
brightest sunlight-readable displays, built-in WAAS GPS, moving
map, 3D terrain avoidance, engine monitor and automated nav/com
control."
Blue Mountain EFIS installations can be seen in any number of
sport aircraft... ranging form Van's speedy RVs to L-39s and even
experimental rocketplanes.
Check Out Blue
Mountain EFIS With Aero-TV!
About Aero-TV: It's DEFINITELY Show
Time!!!!
OK, folks, here we go... we are NOW initiating the first
feature programming series for Aero-TV... we're going to take it
slow, but we're also going to try and be steady about this. DO
UNDERSTAND that this is the most complex media program we've ever
undertaken and what you're seeing is just the tip of the iceberg...
but from here on out, we will be doing our best to educate,
inform, and entertain YOU about all aspects of the exciting worlds
of aviation and aerospace.
If you've been an observer of the media and associated media
industries over the last few years, it's not hard to mistake the
fact that a massive revolution is taking place. Old sources for
news and information are falling by the wayside, having to change
their modus operandi or risk obsolescence (or extinction).
Electronic media and print media are both under the assault of
progress, and the online world has been a cornerstone for
revolutionary change.
We've been ready to go for a while, but to be honest, there's so
much more to this program than we've alluded to, and so we've been
building and planning a massive new organization within ANN. That
said, we're hiring talented new people as
fast as we can find them (a far more difficult
task than we had imagined -- REALLY good people are hard to find),
and we're brainstorming at speeds that would make a deorbiting
Space Shuttle feel like a slug. Suffice it to say that we wanted to
do this right, rather than right-now, and that the development of
this program has been the most carefully pursued undertaking we've
ever undertaken.
E-I-C Note: The
complete feature shown above is embedded in this
story, with most of the slick and useful functionality
otherwise available on the main Aero-TV site (which will be
upgraded aggressively over the next few weeks). The ability to
embed a video on another web page is but one of the hundreds
of amazing little features that we've worked hard on, for many
months now, to implement in different phases of the initial
release of Aero-TV. It is, BY NO MEANS, the only way to enjoy
unaltered Aero-TV programming on other parts of the web... as we
have extensive plans for future functionality, but this
feature allows those with an interest in a specific Aero-TV News or
Feature program to embed it on a different web site, though we
must note that we reserve the right to forbid such use for those
sites or purposes that we do not feel fit in with the proper
mission of the Aero-News Network, Inc.
Webmasters or Administrators of well-trafficked aviation or
aerospace related sites, are welcome to contact the Publisher to
start conversations on how they may be able to leverage some of the
immense power of Aero-TV programming for their sites and
constituency by clicking the I Want Aero-TV For
MY Website! link.
Coming Soon!
Aero-TV Takes A GOOD LOok At Honeywell's KFD840 and
KNS770!, Checking Out the Cirrus SR20, Seeing What It Takes to
"Compete" as An AMT, Looks At The FAA FAASTeam Program,
Updates On The Garmin 495, Flying The Piper Matrix, Hears
What's Hot At Blue Mountain Avionics, Gets Some GREAT Rotax
Lessons, Gets Updated On ALL Things Lopresti, Has A FUN Chat With
Corkey Fornof, Sees What Happens When AMTs Compete, Checks Out The
Ltest in Life-Raft Technologies, Checks Out More "HIGH" Tech
at I/ITSEC 2007, Hears From AOPA On Critical Aviation Issues,
Spills Some Juicy (and HIGHLY Detailed) Cirrus G3 Info, Scores
A BUNCH of LSA Reports, and SO MUCH MORE!!!!! Do NOT Miss
Them!
ANN's Daily Aero-Term (07.10.25): Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) [ICAO]
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