Mike Glover Offers Avidyne Entegra Release 9 Usability Tips

Mike Glover, Director of OEM and Strategic Alliances at Avidyne, chatted with Aero-TV about his most helpful avionics tips relating to the all-new Entegra FMS900w Flight Management System.

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In the third part of his four part series, Glover discusses the architecture of Release 9's Integrated Flight Displays (IFDs), built to enhance reliability and provide better mission readiness. The dual-architecture allows each display to perform the functions of the other, ensuring full redundancy with no need for special "reversionary" modes.

Instead of being "daisy-chained," each display has its own set of computational modules allowing for peer-to-peer data exchange and comparison. If a single-point failure occurs, components can be turned off during flight; this prevents the single-point failure from affecting other critical operations that can lead to an overall system failure.

In addition, if a component requires maintenance, the system quickly and effectively identifies the line-replaceable unit (LRU). Due to the IFD's modular design, the LRU can be easily pulled for repairs or replacement without need for reconfiguration or calibration.

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