Truly Revolutionary Autopilot NOW Shipping

While covering this year's Cirrus Pilot's and Owner's Association Convention was a GREAT way to spend time, getting the news that Avidyne had certified the revolutionary new DFC90 digital autopilot pretty much took top honors. Avidyne received the STC and TSO authorization for the installation of the DFC90 digital autopilot in Cirrus SR20 and SR22 airplanes on June 18th, 2010, while Avidyne's Tom Harper called this development, "The start of a new era for Avidyne."

The DFC90 is an attitude-based Digital Flight Control System which is an upgrade specifically for Cirrus SR20 and SR22 aircraft with Avidyne's Entegra Release 8 Flight Deck Systems. It adds the precision of an attitude-based flight control system and Avidyne's innovative, safety-enhancing Flight Envelope Protection capability, including safety enhancements such as a Straight & Level mode that provides one-button unusual attitude recovery.

It is an integrated flight computer and control panel that is designed as a slide-in replacement for existing rate-based STEC 55X flight computers.

Avidyne also received TSO approval for Release 8.0, which is the Primary Flight Display (PFD) software upgrade needed to make the Entegra EXP5000 PFD compatible with the DFC90.

Certification of the DFC100 (one of the first of which had BETTER be heading for OUR airplane... ahem), which is designed for the Entegra Release 9 system, is expected later this year.

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