Tue, Apr 04, 2006
It's looking like good
times continue for Cessna, especially with the news that
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has ordered 16 new 172 Skyhawk
SPs equipped with the Garmin G1000.
"Students love the glass cockpits," said Frank Ayers, chairman
of the Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach flight department and associate
professor of aeronautical science. "The old analog gauges are a
throwback to a time before computers. The students are more
comfortable with digital technology.
The digital features offer additional information and heightened
situational awareness in the cockpit, helping make navigating safer
- something especially important to new pilots."
The 16 new airplanes will join the 24 Skyhawks in the
Embry-Riddle fleet.
Deliveries are scheduled for second and third quarters of 2006.
Embry-Riddle plans to convert most of their fleet to digital
(glass) cockpits, retaining a few analog airplanes for instrument
training.
"ERAU chose to incorporate G1000-equipped aircraft into the
fleet because we think the Cessna 172 is a great training aircraft,
and because we want to continually expose our students to the
latest in technology," Ayers said.
"We also waited until Garmin could integrate the Automatic
Dependant Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) into the G1000. We have
been the only major university and the only major flight school of
any kind using the ADS-B collision avoidance system, and we believe
in it so strongly that we will not fly without it."
There are 1,100 students enrolled in the aeronautical science
degree program at Embry-Riddle's Daytona campus and more than 900
enrolled at Embry-Riddle's Prescott, Ariz., campus.
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