Everything Will Be Housed In Portland

Advanced Flight Systems says it's acquired the line of angle-of-attack instruments from Proprietary Software Systems.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

"This acquisition represents an exciting expansion of the Advanced Flight Systems product line," said AFS President Rob Hickman. "We are committed to expanding our aviation products offering and feel the AOA line makes an excellent expansion category. Mr. Frantz has created a truly best-in-class system that fits our goal of always providing state-of-the-art products, solid value, and superlative support. We are in this business for the long run and our customers will see a continuing stream of improvements to both our current products, and new products."

Angle-of-Attack is aimed at unlocking Navy carrier pilots' secrets and putting a priority on safety. The idea here, according to AFS, is that all approaches should be flown at the same optimum approach angle-of-attack, not at the same IAS. With AOA, the company says general aviation pilots can now do precision approaches like military and airline pilots, accurately gauging Vx, Vy, best glide, L/D max and maximum endurance AOA. The reason, according to AFS, is because angle-of-attack is not a function of weight, bank angle, fuel load, density altitude, etc.

The AOA includes a color display and aural voice system which warns of critically high AOA, gear position errors and installation/hardware errors. There are no ugly probes, vanes or protrusions to slow you down or accumulate ice. Currently in the process of relocating AOA production to its facility in Portland, Oregon, AFS says it looks forward to a smooth transition that should be completed next month.

FMI: www.advanced-flight-systems.com, www.angle-of-attack.com